Mood is associated with investors' decision making and influences stock market performance, which is supported by psychological and financial researches. However, previous studies have not provided a strong evidence that their proxies can influence moods in an efficient way.We use data of...

Should a payment intermediary (e.g. American Express, PayPal, etc.) be allowed to require merchants to charge the same price for customers who pay via the platform as they charge other customers? We build a model that highlights certain under-appreciated aspects of this questions. Taking these...

We construct a corporate workplace equality measure based on textual analysis of equal employment opportunity statements in online job postings of US listed companies. We verify this measure by demonstrating its predictive power of future employment discrimination lawsuits and identifying the...