Long-standing wisdom holds that criticism is antithetical to effective brainstorming because it incites intragroup conflict. However, a number of recent studies have challenged this assumption, suggesting that criticism might actually enhance creativity in brainstorming by fostering divergent...

The degree of competition in the nursing home industry has profound implications for regulations, quality and pricing decisions. This paper presents a model of spatial competition in the nursing home industry to investigate how consumer preferences over location can affect the substitutability...

As severe disasters increase and intensify, federal, state, and local governments are continuing to adapt their responses. The needs of low-income renters are particularly acute. Three recent studies by some of the authors of this working paper analyze the intersection of environmental disasters...

A growing body of research uses patent citations to analyze economic phenomena, and many of these papers are interested in the distribution of citations over the life of a patent. However, this question leads directly to the age-year-cohort identification problem, i.e. co-linearity between the...

The negotiation field has been dominated by a focus on objective value, or economic outcomes, with relatively less attention paid to subjective value, or social psychological outcomes. This chapter proposes a framework that highlights the duality of negotiation outcomes by identifying predictors...

In this research we examine whether conversational dynamics occurring within the first five minutes of a negotiation can predict negotiated outcomes. In a simulated employment negotiation, micro-coding conducted by a computer showed that activity level, conversational engagement, prosodic...