We investigate the effects of large group meetings on the spread of COVID-19 by studying the impact of eighteen Trump campaign rallies. To capture the effects of subsequent contagion within the pertinent communities, our analysis encompasses up to ten post-rally weeks for each event. Our method...

We construct a novel measure of disclosure choice by firms. Our measure is computed using linguistic analysis of conference calls to identify whether a manager's response to an analyst question is a “non-answer.” Using our measure, about 11% of analyst questions elicit non-answers from...

The PhD Conference in Economics and Business was a unique Australian innovation when it commenced in the late 1980s. With the high-quality feedback from discussants, the conference was a productive special event, even horizon-broadening for some students. The conference is now a partnership...

This study examines the relation between managerial overconfidence and conference calls. Prior studies document that some managers tend to be overconfident because they believe they have more precise knowledge about future events than they genuinely possess. Overconfident managers tend to...

Minutes of discussion at Mont Pelerin Conference, April 1st-10th -- Session 1 : welcoming address -- Session 2 : "free" enterprise and competitive order -- Session 3 : "free" enterprise and competitive order (continued) -- Session 4 : modern historiography and political education -- Session 5 :...

"Prior to COVID 19, hybrid meetings were relatively rare and consisted of the majority of attendees being in person with perhaps someone "dialing in" (and often forgot about). The hybrid meeting that will likely monopolize the way meetings are conducted from here on out will likely involve a...

The paper focuses on meetings as an over-utilized, but often under-structured tool for managerial effectiveness and efficiency. The authors present four different meeting types, more precisely termed team facilitations, as commonly used in aviation by flight crews: Brainstorming, Briefing,...

This paper aims to quantify the contribution of conferences to publication success of more than 4,000 papers presented at three leading economics conferences over the 2006- 2012 period. The results show a positive link between conference presentation and the publishing probability in...

Using a unique dataset of all one-on-one meetings between senior management and investors for an NYSE-traded firm, we investigate the impact of these private meetings on investor decisions. We find evidence that investors who meet privately with management make more informed trading decisions in...

We construct a novel measure of disclosure choice by firms. Our measure is computed using linguistic analysis of conference calls to identify whether a manager's response to an analyst question is a “non-answer.” Using our measure, about 11% of analyst questions elicit non-answers from...

Merkmale guter Moderation -- Methoden richtig einsetzen -- Gruppenprozesse steuern -- Themen und Anlässe unterscheiden -- Organisation und Kontext einbeziehen -- Beziehung und Kontakt herstellen -- Rollenklarheit und Selbstverständnis entwickeln -- Visualisierung wirkungsvoll einsetzen --...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- What is virtual facilitation? -- Putting the human back into the digital world -- Sharing the 'how' -- A blend of expertise -- Diving into the digital world -- Use our online platform to get materials and the newest...

"The covid-19 crisis accelerated virtual collaboration exponentially, creating an instant need for virtual facilitation skills. People and organizations have started on this journey, but do not yet have the experience and competencies to use this medium for effective and energetic collaboration....

Chairing A Meeting -- Chairing Small Meetings -- Chairing Company Board Meetings: What Is The Board For? -- Chairing Company Board Meetings: How To Go About It -- The Right People: Diversity -- Chairing Board Committees & Agms -- Chairing Selection Panels -- Chairing Conferences & Summits &...

A long-standing literature documents the existence of intra-industry capital market co-movements around earnings releases, yet the dynamics of these information transfers remain largely unexplored. We provide evidence on both the sources and the channels of information transfers by separating...

Throughout the long postwar period, crisis was a conjectural phenomenon and the exception in a normalcy of growth and social progress. Many key concepts of the social sciences - indeed, our understanding of democracy, embedded markets, enlightened electorates, benevolent political elites, and...

This study quantitatively examines how the term "fake news" is being portrayed by the Japanese news media using semantic network analysis. It uses newspapers as the representative as they are still one of the most influential news media in Japan. The data set consists of 624 newspaper articles...

This study examines factors that affect disaster evacuees' usage of different media in a multi-channel media environment, which means that people can receive similar content from multiple media channels. Using the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake in Japan as the case study, we find that that...

Um Veranstaltungen im Unternehmenskontext professionell, effizient und effektiv zu konzipieren, kommt der Zielsetzung eine bedeutende Rolle zu. So stehen im Mittelpunkt der Konzeption die Frage danach, was konkret mit der Veranstaltung erreicht werden soll. Weiter stellt sich die Frage nach der...