SSRN MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper Series

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), The Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Government of the United States of America - Environmental Sciences Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Independent Author and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)

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6.

Disappearing Dividends: Changing Firm Characteristics or Lower Propensity to Pay?

AFA 2001 New Orleans; CRSP Working Paper No. 509

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 03 Feb 2000

Working Paper Series

Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French

University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business

Downloads 11,230

7.

Capital Markets Research in Accounting

JAE Rochester Conference April 2000

Number of pages: 145 Posted: 05 Dec 2000

Working Paper Series

S.P. Kothari

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 10,493

8.

Value-at-Risk: Implementing a Risk Measurement Standard

96-47

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 01 Feb 1997

Working Paper Series

Christopher Marshall and Michael Siegel

EDHEC Risk and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

Downloads 10,325

9.

Characteristics, Covariances, and Average Returns: 1929-1997

Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) Working Paper No. 471

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 12 Aug 1998

Working Paper Series

James L. Davis, Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French

Dimensional Fund Advisors Inc., University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 9,789

10.

It Governance on One Page

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4517-04; CIS Research Working Paper No. 349

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Feb 2005

Working Paper Series

Peter Weill and Jeanne W. Ross

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)

Downloads 9,628

11.

Private Equity Performance: Returns, Persistence and Capital Flows

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4446-03; AFA 2004 San Diego Meetings

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 04 Dec 2003

Working Paper Series

Steven N. Kaplan and Antoinette Schoar

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

Downloads 9,369

12.

Enterprise Architecture: Driving Business Benefits from it

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4614-06, CISR Working Paper No. 359

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 27 Jul 2006

Working Paper Series

Jeanne W. Ross

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)

Downloads 9,131

13.

From Place to Space: Migrating to Profitable Electronic Commerce Business Models

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4358-01

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 16 Apr 2002

Working Paper Series

Jeanne W. Ross, Michael R. Vitale and Peter Weill

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), affiliation not provided to SSRN and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)

Downloads 8,772

14.

Earnings Management and Investor Protection: An International Comparison

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4225-01; EFA 2002 Berlin Meetings Presented Paper

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 18 Sep 2001 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2008

Working Paper Series

Christian Leuz, Dhananjay Nanda and Peter D. Wysocki

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Miami - School of Business Administration and Boston University Questrom School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 8,552

15.

Goodbye Pareto Principle, Hello Long Tail: The Effect of Search Costs on the Concentration of Product Sales

Management Science, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 26 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Erik Brynjolfsson, Yu Jeffrey Hu and Duncan Simester

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

Downloads 8,504

16.

The Corporate Cost of Capital and the Return on Corporate Investment

CRSP Working Paper

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 11 Aug 1998

Working Paper Series

Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French

University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business

Downloads 8,035

17.

Harnessing Crowds: Mapping the Genome of Collective Intelligence

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4732-09

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 16 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2012

Working Paper Series

Thomas W. Malone, Robert Laubacher and Chrysanthos Dellarocas

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Collective Intelligence and Boston University, Questrom School of Business - Department of Information Systems

Downloads 8,017

18.

Forecasting Profitability and Earnings

CRSP Working Paper No. 456

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 13 Nov 1997

Working Paper Series

Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French

University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 7,923

19.

Testing Tradeoff and Pecking Order Predictions About Dividends and Debt

CRSP Working Paper No. 506

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 15 Dec 1999

Working Paper Series

Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French

University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business

Downloads 7,650

20.

Why Hackers Do What They Do: Understanding Motivation and Effort in Free/Open Source Software Projects

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4425-03

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 15 Sep 2003

Working Paper Series

Karim R. Lakhani and Robert G. Wolf

Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group and The Boston Consulting Group

Downloads 6,967

21.

What Makes You Click? Mate Preferences and Matching Outcomes in Online Dating

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4603-06

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 11 Apr 2006

Working Paper Series

Günter J. Hitsch, Ali Hortacsu and Dan Ariely

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business

Downloads 6,687

22.

Stock Returns, Aggregate Earnings Surprises, and Behavioral Finance

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4284-03

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 10 Jan 2005 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2009

Working Paper Series

Jonathan Lewellen, S.P. Kothari and Jerold B. Warner

Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Rochester – Simon Business School

Downloads 6,276

23.

Computing Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4210-01

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 08 Oct 2003

Working Paper Series

Erik Brynjolfsson and Lorin M. Hitt

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department

Downloads 6,177

24.

Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

Harvard Business School Finance Working Paper No. 10-038, MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4764-09

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 09 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2012

Working Paper Series

Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric A. von Hippel

Harvard Business School, Finance Unit and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

Downloads 6,152

25.

High-Water Marks and Hedge Fund Management Contracts

Yale ICF Working Paper No. 00-34

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 08 Feb 1998

Working Paper Series

William N. Goetzmann, Jonathan E. Ingersoll and Stephen A. Ross

Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 6,115

26.

Relational Contracts and the Theory of the Firm

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 11 May 1997

Working Paper Series

George P. Baker, Robert S. Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy

HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

Downloads 6,080

27.

The Effect of International Institutional Factors on Properties of Accounting Earnings

University of Rochester Working Paper FR 99-12

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 15 Sep 1999

Working Paper Series

Ray Ball, S.P. Kothari and Ashok Robin

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)

Downloads 5,469

28.

The Relation between Auditors' Fees for Non-Audit Services and Earnings Management

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4330-02

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 20 Jan 2002

Working Paper Series

Richard M. Frankel, Marilyn F. Johnson and Karen K. Nelson

Washington University in Saint Louis - Olin Business School, Michigan State University - Department of Accounting & Information Systems and Texas Christian University - Department of Accounting

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 5,146

29.

The Delta Model -- Toward a Unified Framework of Strategy

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4261-02

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 31 Oct 2002

Working Paper Series

Arnoldo C. Hax and Dean L. Wilde

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Dean & Company

Downloads 4,863

30.

Econometric Measures of Connectedness and Systemic Risk in the Finance and Insurance Sectors

University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Economics Research Paper Series No. 21, MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4774-10, AFA 2011 Denver Meetings Paper, CAREFIN Research Paper No. 12/2010

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 23 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2012

Working Paper Series

Monica Billio, Andrew W. Lo, Mila Getmansky and Loriana Pelizzon

Ca Foscari University of Venice - Dipartimento di Economia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management - Department of Finance and Goethe University Frankfurt - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Downloads 4,758

31.

Systemic Risk and Hedge Funds

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4535-05, EFA 2005 Moscow Meetings Paper, AFA 2006 Boston Meetings Paper

Number of pages: 111 Posted: 07 Mar 2005

Working Paper Series

Nicholas T. Chan, Mila Getmansky, Shane M. Haas and Andrew W. Lo

AlphaSimplex Group, LLC, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management - Department of Finance, AlphaSimplex Group, LLC and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,670

32.

Testing Behavioral Finance Theories Using Trends and Sequences in Financial Performance

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4375-02

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 20 Aug 2002

Working Paper Series

Wesley S. Chan, Richard M. Frankel and S.P. Kothari

Acadian Asset Management, Washington University in Saint Louis - Olin Business School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

Downloads 4,579

33.

Creating a Strategic it Architecture Competency: Learning in Stages

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4314-03; Center for Information Systems Research Working Paper No. 335

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 17 Jun 2003

Working Paper Series

Jeanne W. Ross

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)

Downloads 4,577

34.

Initial Coin Offerings and the Value of Crypto Tokens

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5347-18, Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 3137213

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 13 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2018

Working Paper Series

Christian Catalini and Joshua S. Gans

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,285

35.

The Role of International Accounting Standards in Transitional Economies: A Study of the People's Republic of China

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 28 Aug 2000

Working Paper Series

Elizabeth A. Eccher and Paul M. Healy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Business School

Downloads 4,116

36.

Evaluating Mutual Fund Performance

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 13 Apr 1998

Working Paper Series

S.P. Kothari and Jerold B. Warner

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Rochester – Simon Business School

Downloads 4,106

37.

Understanding Digital Markets: Review and Assesment

MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper No. 4211-01

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 19 Nov 2001

Working Paper Series

Michael D. Smith, Joseph Bailey and Erik Brynjolfsson

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Maryland and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

Downloads 4,094

38.

Coherent Arbitrariness: Duration-Sensitive Pricing of Hedonic Stimuli Around an Arbitrary Anchor

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 21 Sep 2000

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Dan Ariely, George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec

Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and MIT Sloan

Downloads 4,047

39.

Performance Matched Discretionary Accrual Measures

Simon School of Business Working Paper No. FR 01-04; MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4335-01

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 29 Mar 2001

Working Paper Series

S.P. Kothari, Andrew J. Leone and Charles E. Wasley

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Miami and Simon School, University of Rochester

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,035

40.

Implications for GAAP from an Analysis of Positive Research in Accounting

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Forthcoming, MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4740-09, Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit Working Paper No. 09-137, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business Working Paper No. 09-22

Number of pages: 126 Posted: 03 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2010

Accepted Paper Series

S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna and Douglas J. Skinner

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Harvard Business School and The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Downloads 4,011

41.

Predicting Returns with Financial Ratios

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4374-02

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 02 Oct 2002

Working Paper Series

Jonathan Lewellen

Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business

Downloads 3,792

42.

Don't Just Lead, Govern: Implementing Effective it Governance

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4237-02

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 24 Jul 2002

Working Paper Series

Peter Weill and Richard Woodham

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

Downloads 3,774

43.

The Digitization of Word-of-Mouth: Promise and Challenges of Online Feedback Mechanisms

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4296-03

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 08 Apr 2003

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Chrysanthos Dellarocas

Boston University, Questrom School of Business - Department of Information Systems

Downloads 3,732

44.

Asymmetric Timeliness of Earnings, Market-to-Book and Conservatism in Financial Reporting

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4550-05, Simon Business School Working Paper No. FR 04-21

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 20 Dec 2004

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Sugata Roychowdhury and Ross L. Watts

Boston College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

Downloads 3,316

45.

Estimation and Empirical Properties of a Firm-Year Measure of Accounting Conservatism

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4640

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 07 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2010

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Mozaffar Khan and Ross L. Watts

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

Downloads 3,302

46.

It Savvy Pays Off: How Top Performers Match it Portfolios And Organizational Practices

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4560-05, CISR Working Paper No. 353

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 09 Aug 2005

Working Paper Series

Peter Weill and Sinan Aral

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

Downloads 3,220

47.

Incentives for Tax Planning and Avoidance: Evidence from the Field

The Accounting Review, Vol. 89, No. 3, pp. 991-1023, May 2014, MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4990-12

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 19 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 17 May 2014

Accepted Paper Series

John R. Graham, Michelle Hanlon, Terry J. Shevlin and Nemit Shroff

Duke University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of California-Irvine and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

Downloads 3,181

48.

It Infrastructure for Strategic Agility

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4235-02

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 24 Jul 2002

Working Paper Series

Peter Weill, Mani Subramani and Marianne Broadbent

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and The University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School

Downloads 3,140

49.

An Econometric Model of Serial Correlation and Illiquidity in Hedge Fund Returns

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4288-03; MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering Working Paper No. LFE-1041A-03; EFMA 2003 Helsinki Meetings

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 07 Mar 2003

Working Paper Series

Mila Getmansky, Andrew W. Lo and Igor Makarov

University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management - Department of Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,083

50.

Principal Components as a Measure of Systemic Risk

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4785-10

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 02 Jul 2010

Working Paper Series

Mark Kritzman, Yuanzhen Li, Sebastien Page and Roberto Rigobon

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Windham Capital Management, State Street Associates and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

Downloads 2,968