Running a contest can help managers elicit creative ideas from employees by providing employees with incentives to develop and share ideas that will help the firm. Little is known, however, about how contest design affects the outcomes of subjectively evaluated creativity-based contests. We...

Pay transparency and the pay dispersion it reveals matter to academics, policymakers, and corporate stakeholders. We study how the increased pay transparency brought about by the United States’ CEO pay ratio disclosure rule affected employee pay satisfaction. Economic models of pay...

Since 2018, the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires firms to disclose the ratio of their Chief Executive Officer's (CEO's) and median employee's pay. Due to the uncertainty surrounding the ratio's interpretation, managers must weigh the costs and benefits of including (or omitting)...

A company’s ability to hire is important because productive employees are a major driver of firm value. Many labor market participants claim to use workplace diversity statistics to help them assess their goodness-of-fit with firms, but it is unclear if these statistics actually influence the...