We examine how traditional media and Twitter cover four business scandals: Wells Fargo fake accounts, EpiPen pricing hikes, Samsung Note 7 faulty battery, and Volkswagen's cheating in emission tests. There are over 500 articles from Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post and USA...

Government officials, advocacy groups, and the business press have raised concerns that former SEC employees may continue to influence the SEC after leaving the agency. Using a hand-collected database of lawyers who represent firms in responding to SEC comment letters, we examine the...

This study uses audit firms’ job postings from 2010 to 2019 to present descriptive evidence of the long-term impact of using artificial intelligence (AI) technology on the audit industry. We exploit the staggered job postings for personnel with AI skills at audit office locations across the...

The mere marketing of firms as environmentally friendly does not mean that the firms are genuinely green. In this paper, we propose a new measure, Green Score, to capture firms’ investment in green human capital based on the concentration of green skills required in firms’ job postings....

With increasing numbers of consumers in auction marketplaces, we highlight some recent approaches that bring additional economic, social, and psychological factors to bear on existing economic theory to better understand and explain consumer behavior in auctions. We also highlight specific...

We conceptualize, develop, and test a multiple-item bundle valuation model through which decision makers are able to make inferences about the value of uncertain items based on the value of high-certain items. Results of five experiments indicate that bundling a low-value certain item with a...

Our study leverages detailed résumé data of bank regulators to examine the impact of their early-career experiences with the S&L crisis during the 1980s and 1990s on banking supervision in their later careers. We find regulators with banking crisis experiences in their early careers are...

Our study analyzes the effect of women’s access to reproductive control on female auditor mobility. Exploiting the staggered state-level adoption of Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws that restrict women’s access to abortion, we find that female auditors’ propensity to...