Selected Faculty Research

Michael Burke’s paper “Statistical Significance Criteria for the rWG and Average Deviation Interrater Agreement Indices,” co-authored with Kristin Smith- Crowe, Ayala Cohen and Etti Doveh, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Psychology. Burke is the Lawrence Martin Chair in Business and professor of management, and he holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. The senior author of the paper, Kristin Smith-Crowe, is a graduate of Tulane’sIndustrial/Organizational Psychology doctoral program, which is cooperatively administered with the Freeman School’s Organizational Behavior doctoral program. Since 2011, Smith-Crowe has been a tenured associate professor at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business. She is currently visiting as a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School of Business. Ayala Cohen and Etti Doveh are on the faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Geoff Parker and Burcu Tan’s paper “Platform Performance Investment in the Presence of Network Externalities,” co-authored with Edward G. Anderson Jr., associate professor of information,
risk and operations management at the University of Texas at Austin, was accepted for publication in Information Systems Research. In the paper, the authors build a strategic model to investigate the trade-off between investing in high platform performance versus reducing investment in order to facilitate third party content development and characterize the conditions under which offering a platform with lower performance but greater availability of content can be a winning strategy. Parker is the Norman Mayer Professor of Business and professor of management science. Tan is an assistant professor of management science. Also, Parker’s paper “The Impact of Costliness, Competitive Importance, and Modularity of Investments on Outsourcing,” co-authored with Jovan Grahovac and
Ekundayo Shittu, has been accepted for publication in Production and Operations Management.

Emily Rosenzweig’s paper “The Performance Heuristic: A Misguided Reliance on Past Success When Predicting Future Prospects for Improvement” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. The paper was co-authored with Clayton Critcher, assistant professor of marketing at the University of California – Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Rosenzweig is an assistant professor of marketing.

Lingling Wang’s paper “Culture and R2,” co-authored with Cheol Eun and Steven Xiao, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics. In the paper, the authors find that stock prices co-move more in culturally tight and collectivistic countries and less in culturally loose and individualistic countries. Their study suggests that culture is an important omitted variable in the literature that investigates cross-country differences in stock price co-movements. Wang is an assistant professor of finance.

Cristina Danciulescu, visiting assistant professor of finance, recently published two papers. In January, she contributed “Macroeconomic equilibrium and welfare under simple monetary and switching fiscal policy rules” to Economic Modelling, and in June, she contributed “Pitfalls and Solutions in Current Risk Management Methodology” to Journal of Risk.