How did the Spanish money supply evolve in the aftermath of the discovery of large amounts of precious metals in Spanish America? We synthesize the available data on the mining of precious metals and their international flow to estimate the money supply for Spain from 1492 to 1810. Our estimate...

Implementing free in-store pickup services has become increasingly widespread in the retail industry as part of an omni-channel strategy. Retailers considering a new service need to evaluate the value gained and resulting changes to customer behavior to understand if implementation should move...

This study examines the effects of negative Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) news on the sales of retail brands. While previous research has extensively studied the impacts of the adoption of ESG on firms' performance, limited attention has been given to the effects of ESG performance...

We estimate the contribution of the American precious metal windfall to West Europe's growth performance in the early modern period. The exogenous nature of American money arrivals allows for identification of monetary effects. We find that more than half of West Europe's growth can be...

We develop a novel approach to measure manager-analyst interaction quality in earnings conference calls using a word-embedding model. We validate our measure and find that it is positively associated with future firm performance. We also find that high-quality manager-analyst interactions elicit...

Shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) are expected to be an essential component in developing efficient and sustainable transportation systems. This paper focuses on optimizing the operational decisions of SAV systems when the mode choices between SAVs and human-driven private vehicles are...

Shared autonomous electric vehicle systems will be a promising alternative for sustainable urban mobility. This study investigates an integrated optimization problem for shared autonomous electric vehicle systems that determines the long-term charging facility deployment at the planning level...