Increasing diversity in upper management positions is often cited as a way to improve a firm's performance and generate more diverse hires. We study the impact of management diversity on employment outcomes using rich data on NBA head coaches that includes information on the race of each coach...

This paper empirically investigates three hypotheses regarding biases of National Basketball Association (NBA) referees. Identification of basketball referee bias is typically difficult as changes in observed statistics may be caused by either changes in referee bias or player behavior. We...

We study the pricing decision of firms in the presence of consumer inertia. Inertia can arise from habit formation, brand loyalty, switching costs, or search, and it has important implications for the interpretation of equilibrium outcomes and counterfactual analysis. In particular, consumer...