Newcomers are important for the survival of online communities, but they are often unfamiliar with ingroup norms. Thus, their contributions often receive negative reactions and comments from established members. We study a novel intervention aimed at successfully socializing newcomers into...

The welfare impacts of a conservation easement are examined in a real options model. The size of the easement payment to the landowner largely determines the efficiency of the easement outcome. An inefficiently small payment results in states where rejection of the easement by the landowner...

This paper aims to measure and analyze the efficiency of the US publicly-held insurance industry from 2011 to 2013. The paper uses a two-stage efficiency model: (1) data envelopment analysis (DEA), a non-parametric model for measuring the efficiency of 141 panel data of US publicly-held...