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THE GENESIS OF BIG IDEAS

Climbing Out of the Uncanny Valley

Maybe you winced or did a double take before you clicked on the tile that brought you to this column. If you didn’t, click the back arrow and check the tile again … Read more

WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?

Gender And Competitiveness 

Getting ahead at work doesn't just depend on how hard you promote yourself; it also depends on whether your boss is willing to go to bat for you … Read more

Awards

This month we are honoring Susan Broniarczyk, William Fuchs, Daniel Neuhann, and Adrian Ward. 

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Ph.D. Student Spotlight: Yizhe Huang

Yizhe Huang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management. He is advised by professor Rui Gao. 

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Ph.D. Student Spotlight: Minjoo Kim

Minjoo Kim's work studies how economic constraints and opportunities shape household financial decisions, with a focus on retirement saving and insurance markets. 

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A Special Thank-You!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the research luncheon on Feb. 13. 

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Upcoming Events

Join us throughout the month of March for research events, lunches, and seminars.

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Research Funding Opportunities

We are pleased to announce the continued success of the McCombs Undergraduate Research Assistant Program.

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Just Accepted Journal Publications

Jaime J. Schmidt (Accounting)
“The Determinants and Consequences of Copying the Auditor on SEC Comment Letter Correspondence”
Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory

Jonathan B. Cohn and Travis L. Johnson (Finance)
“Past Is Prologue: Inference From the Cross Section of Returns Around an Event”
Journal of Financial Economics

John Griffin, Samuel Kruger, and Prateek Mahajan [McCombs Ph.D. Student] (Finance)
“Did Pandemic Relief Fraud Inflate House Prices?”
Journal of Financial Economics

Laura L. Starks (Finance)
“Biodiversity and Natural Resource Finance”
Review of Finance

Diwakar Gupta (IROM)
“Trade Credit With Costly Sales Revenue Verification”
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Stathis Tompaidis (IROM)
“Tax Revenue From Realized Capital Gains”
Review of Finance

Raghunath S. Rao (Marketing)
“Market Effects of Inattention: Theory and Evidence From Left-Digit Bias”
Journal of Marketing Research

Jaime J. Schmidt (Accounting)
“A Multidisciplinary Theory Repository and Assurance Ecosystem Framework To Facilitate Research”
Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory

John Griffin, Samuel Kruger, and Prateek Mahajan [McCombs Ph.D. Student] (Finance)
“Is Fraud Contagious? Social Connections and the Looting of COVID Relief Programs”
Review of Financial Studies

Clemens Sialm (Finance)
“The Effect of Principal Reduction on Household Distress: Evidence From Mortgage Cramdown”
The Review of Financial Studies

Junyu Cao (IROM)
“HR-Bandit: Human-AI Collaborated Linear Recourse Bandit”
Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (AISTATS)

Yan Leng (IROM)
“SUVA: A Probabilistic Framework for Auditing LLMs With an Application to Social Preferences”
Information Systems Research

David A. Harrison (Management)
“For Good and for Bad: The Distinctive Effects of Successors' Leadership Behavior on Collective Engagement and Organizational Performance”
Journal of Applied Psychology