Implementing free in-store pickup services has become increasingly widespread in the retail industry as part of an omni-channel strategy. Retailers considering a new service need to evaluate the value gained and resulting changes to customer behavior to understand if implementation should move...

This paper investigates how sustainable investing affects returns and investor flows of U.S. equity funds during the war in Ukraine. We find that funds with high sustainability ratings, low carbon risk, and low controversial involvement underperform their low sustainability counterparts....

We develop a novel approach to measure manager-analyst interaction quality in earnings conference calls using a word-embedding model. We validate our measure and find that it is positively associated with future firm performance. We also find that high-quality manager-analyst interactions elicit...

Shared autonomous electric vehicle systems will be a promising alternative for sustainable urban mobility. This study investigates an integrated optimization problem for shared autonomous electric vehicle systems that determines the long-term charging facility deployment at the planning level...