Florian Ederer

Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law

Questrom Professor of Management

Boston, MA

United States

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

c/o the Royal Academies of Belgium

Rue Ducale 1 Hertogsstraat

1000 Brussels

Belgium

Yale University - Cowles Foundation

Research Staff Member

Box 208281

New Haven, CT 06520-8281

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (20)

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Killer Acquisitions

Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 129, No. 3, pp. 649–702, March 2021
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 12 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 02 May 2021
Colleen Cunningham, Florian Ederer and Song Ma
London Business School, Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law and Yale School of Management
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Innovation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Drug Development, Competition

Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives

Journal of Political Economy, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 511/2017
Number of pages: 113 Posted: 03 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2022
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law, IESE Business School, University of Navarra and CEPRUniversity of Oxford - Finance
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Common ownership, competition, managerial incentives, productivity, corporate governance, antitrust

Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6178
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 14 Oct 2020
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law, IESE Business School, University of Navarra and CEPRUniversity of Oxford - Finance
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common ownership, competition, CEO pay, management incentives, governance

Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives

NBER Working Paper No. w30785
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 26 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 29 May 2023
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law, IESE Business School, University of Navarra and CEPRUniversity of Oxford - Finance
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Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12674
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 05 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2018
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law, IESE Business School, University of Navarra and CEPRUniversity of Oxford - Finance
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CEO pay, Common ownership, Competition, corporate governance, management incentives

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Innovation: The Bright Side of Common Ownership?

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 16 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 25 May 2021
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law, IESE Business School, University of Navarra and CEPRUniversity of Oxford - Finance
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common ownership, competition, innovation, R&D

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Is Pay-for-Performance Detrimental to Innovation?

Management Science, Vol. 59, Issue 7, pp. 1496-1513, July 2013
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 23 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015
Florian Ederer and Gustavo Manso
Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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innovation, incentives, exploration, tolerance for failure, experiments

Understanding Mechanisms Underlying Peer Effects: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Financial Decisions

Econometrica, Vol. 82, No. 4
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 05 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2014
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management, Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law, Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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peer effects, social learning, social preferences, portfolio choice

Understanding Peer Effects in Financial Decisions: Evidence from a Field Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w18241
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 21 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 06 May 2023
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management, Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law, Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Promises and Expectations

106 Games and Economic Behavior 161-178 (2017), Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1931, UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 17-19
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 18 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2018
Florian Ederer and Alexander Stremitzer
Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law and ETH Zurich
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Promises, Expectations, Beliefs, Contracts

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Gaming and Strategic Opacity in Incentive Provision

RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 819-854, Winter 2018, Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1935
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 08 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2019
Florian Ederer, Richard Holden and Margaret Meyer
Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and University of Oxford - Department of Economics
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incentives, gaming, contracts, opacity

Gaming and Strategic Opacity in Incentive Provision

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9319
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 01 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2018
Florian Ederer, Richard Holden and Margaret A. Meyer
Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and University of Oxford - Nuffield Department of Medicine
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contracts, gaming, incentives, opacity, randomization

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The Great Startup Sellout and the Rise of Oligopoly

AEA Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 113, May 2023, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 12 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2023
Florian Ederer and Bruno Pellegrino
Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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startups, IPOs, acquisitions, mergers, market power, concentration

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Incentives for Parallel Innovation

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 15 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2021
Florian Ederer
Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law
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innovation, team incentives, exploration, group compensation, tolerance for failure, experiments

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Trust and Promises over Time

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 304-320, August 2022
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 May 2018 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2022
Florian Ederer and Frédéric Schneider
Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
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trust, promises, persistence, trustworthiness, delay

The Persistent Power of Promises

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2129
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 May 2018
Florian Ederer and Frédéric Schneider
Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
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Trust, promises, Persistence, Trustworthiness, Delay, Experiment

Trust and Promises over Time

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2129 (2019)
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 01 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2020
Florian Ederer and Frédéric Schneider
Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
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Trust, Promises, Persistence, Trustworthiness, Delay

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Feedback and Motivation in Dynamic Tournaments

Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 19, Issue 3, pp. 733-769, Fall 2010
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 21 Apr 2005 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2015
Florian Ederer
Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law
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Feedback, Motivation, Tournaments, Interim Evaluation

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Delay and Deadlines: Freeriding and Information Revelation in Partnerships

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 163-204, May 2014.
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 07 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2015
Arthur Campbell, Florian Ederer and Johannes Spinnewijn
Yale University, School of Management, Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
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information search, information disclosure, group decisions, deadlines

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Search Fatigue

Review of Industrial Organization, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 485-508, May 2019.
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 29 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2020
Bruce I. Carlin and Florian Ederer
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law
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consumer search, fatigue, product proliferation, time-varying prices, cyclical price dispersion

Search Fatigue

NBER Working Paper No. w17895
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 02 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 26 May 2023
Bruce I. Carlin and Florian Ederer
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law
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Deception and Incentives: How Dishonesty Undermines Effort Provision

University of Zurich Institute for Empirical Research in Economics Working Paper No. 341, IZA Discussion Paper No. 3200
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 13 Dec 2007
Florian Ederer and Ernst Fehr
Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law and University of Zurich - Department of Economics
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Deception, Dishonesty, Communication, Cheap Talk, Dynamic Tournaments

A Tale of Two Networks: Common Ownership and Product Market Rivalry

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 18 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 03 May 2022
Florian Ederer and Bruno Pellegrino
Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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oligopoly, common ownership, concentration, networks

A Tale of Two Networks: Common Ownership and Product Market Rivalry

NBER Working Paper No. w30004
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 02 May 2022 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2022
Florian Ederer and Bruno Pellegrino
Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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Mergers and Acquisitions under Common Ownership

AEA Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 113, May 2023., IESE Business School Working Paper No. 4322531
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 13 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2023
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law, IESE Business School, University of Navarra and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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common ownership, concentration, competition, mergers, antitrust, networks

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Common Ownership and Relative Performance Evaluation

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 25 Jul 2022
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law, IESE Business School, University of Navarra and CEPRUniversity of Oxford - Finance
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common ownership, competition, managerial incentives, corporate governance, antitrust

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Interpersonal Comparison, Status and Ambition in Organizations

University of Oxford Economics Discussion Paper No. 222, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 75, No. 2, 2010
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Apr 2005 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2017
Florian Ederer and Andrea Patacconi
Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law and University of East Anglia (UEA) - Norwich Business School
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Reference-Dependent Preferences, Status, Ambition, Tournaments

Bayesian Persuasion with Lie Detection

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 09 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2021
Florian Ederer and Weicheng Min
Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law and Yale University - Department of Economics
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communication, lying, persuasion

Bayesian Persuasion with Lie Detection

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 22 Jul 2022
Florian Ederer and Weicheng Min
Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law and Yale University - Department of Economics
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D83, D82, K40, D72, M31

Bayesian Persuasion with Lie Detection

NBER Working Paper No. w30065
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 23 May 2022 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2023
Florian Ederer and Weicheng Min
Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law and Yale University
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Gaming and Strategic Opacity in Incentive Provision

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1935
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2017
Florian Ederer, Richard Holden and Margaret A. Meyer
Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and University of Oxford - Nuffield Department of Medicine
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Incentives, Gaming, Contracts, Opacity