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Customer Perceptions of Restaurant Delivery

Kimes, Sheryl E. - 2020

A survey of 224 Internet users found that all had ordered delivery by an app or online and that 58% ordered delivery at least once per week. Most delivery orders were placed on a smartphone and less than half of delivery orders were placed through third party delivery companies. The single most...

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Tracking Inattention

Goldstein, Nathan - 2020

This study proposes a real-time estimate of inattention, based on micro-level data. I show that a simple specification that estimates the persistence of a forecaster's deviation from the mean provides a direct estimate for parameters of information rigidity according to prominent models of...

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Fostering Enabling Perceptions of Management Controls During Post-Acquisition Integration

Väisänen, Marjo - 2020

The purpose of this paper is to increase our understanding of how enabling perceptions of new management controls (MCs) can be fostered. We present a case study of an acquisition where the acquirer faces pressure to impose rigid controls on the acquired firm, who, in turn faces a massive...

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Mass Attitudes and Discrimination Against Hypothetical Job Candidates in Japan : A Resumé-Based Survey Experiment

Baron, Jonathon - 2020

A substantial literature addresses the various forms of discrimination in the Japanese labor market, but little experimental work investigates these prejudices. Here, I present experimental evidence from a national survey of Japanese adults in order to assess both professional and social...

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Does the Internet Change Attitudes Towards Immigrants? Evidence From Spain

Romarri, Alessio - 2020

In this paper, I empirically evaluate the effect of exposure to the Internet on Spanish attitudes towards immigrants. Exploiting a confidential, innovative survey dataset, I am able to identify a relationship between Internet access and attitudes towards immigrants at the micro (municipal)...

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Public Opinion on Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Weapons : The Attitudinal Nexus in the United States

Baron, Jonathon - 2020

Does a lack of enthusiasm for nuclear energy among the US public relate to connections with nuclear weapons? The United States is projected to decline as the global leader in nuclear power production due to stagnation in the industry. Alongside this trend, US public skepticism of nuclear energy...

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Platforms, Political Advertising, and Attentional Choice

Parsons, G. Michael - 2020

As political advertising moves from traditional media sources to online platforms, federal and state disclosure laws have failed to keep pace. Only a handful of states have adopted transparency regulations that cover online political advertising to date, and the task facing lawmakers just became...

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The Managerial Perception of Uncertainty and Cost Behavior

Chen, Jason V. - 2020

managerial perception of the overall, price, and demand uncertainty, we provide evidence of a positive and significant … managerial perception of the overall uncertainty exacerbates the degree of cost asymmetry. Our empirical evidence supports the … theoretical argument that the managerial perception of uncertainty and its components influences their resource allocation …

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The Quality of Employment (QoE) in Nine Latin American Countries : A Multidimensional Perspective

Sehnbruch, Kirsten - 2020

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Global Behaviors and Perceptions at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Fetzer, Thiemo - 2020

policy responses to the pandemic. The perception of a weak government and public response is associated with higher levels of …

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