As a reminder, please join us for the inaugural University Chair Public Lecture Series talk featuring Mike Crant, Notre Dame Professor of Management & Organization, at 3 p.m. on November 28 in the Jordan Auditorium, with the reception following at 4 p.m. in the atrium. All are welcome!
Congratulations to the following faculty on their research success:
Jeffrey Bergstrand, Professor of Finance
(Note: The paper is co-authored by then-senior undergraduate student Stephen Cray (BBA ’16) along with then-Notre Dame Assistant Professor Antoine Gervais, now an associate professor of economics at the University of Sherbrooke in Canada.)
"Increasing Marginal Costs, Firm Heterogeneity, and the Gains from “Deep” International Trade Agreements" (Journal of International Economics)
Evidence to date suggests that it would take a 57% reduction in “fixed” trade labor costs (say, reducing “red tape”) for the United States to achieve the same gain in economic welfare (or per capita income) as a 3% further cut in tariff rates. So why did the United States aggressively pursue over the past 30 years “deep” trade agreements that reduced such fixed costs? This research establishes that by recognizing empirically supported positively sloped bilateral export supply curves – in contrast to the typically assumed but empirically rejected flat export supply curves – it takes only a 14% reduction in fixed trade costs to achieve the same U.S. economic welfare gains as a 3% cut in tariff rates.
Andrew Imdieke, Assistant Professor of Accountancy
“Reliance on External Assurance in Regulatory Monitoring” (The Accounting Review)
The researchers exploit a regulatory change to examine whether bank regulator strictness is affected when regulators can no longer rely on external assurance. Absent external assurance, the study finds evidence consistent with increased regulator strictness in the reporting of problem assets, particularly during targeted examinations. Thus, the results indicate that regulators become stricter when they can no longer rely on the work of external auditors and that third-party assurance is an imperfect substitute for direct regulatory monitoring.
Shijie Lu, Howard J. and Geraldine F. Korth Associate Professor of Marketing
“Crowding-Out in Content Monetization Under Pay What You Want: Evidence From Live Streaming” (Production and Operations Management)
This study investigates the impact of viewer tipping in live streaming on broadcasters and peer engagement. Results from a field experiment reveal that while broadcasters react positively to more tips, viewers tend to tip less, chat less and leave streams sooner when they see peers tipping. This effect is more pronounced in heavy tippers, potentially due to their focus on the pursuit of social status. The research underscores social status as a driver of these crowding-out effects in live streaming, offering insights for platform design. (See related ND News story.)
Drew Marcantonio, Assistant Teaching Professor of Management & Organization
Environmental Violence: A Tool for Planetary Health (Lancet Planetary Health)
Human-produced environmental risks to health and well-being are high and contribute to patterns of global morbidity, mortality, economic inequality, displacement and insecurity. The implications of human-produced environmental harms to global health are complex just as are their causes. This paper presents the concept of environmental violence and offers a potentially robust frame for engaging this issue. Environmental violence is excess human-produced pollution that degrades human health – it is the single largest source of human mortality today resulting in at least 9 million deaths annually. The framework can be applied to map and measure causes and consequences of environmental violence and to help build just solutions that promote integral human ecology and flourishing.
Yoonseock Son, Assistant Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations
Corey M. Angst, Jack and Joan McGraw Family Collegiate Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations
“Value of IT in Building Resilience During Crises: Evidence from U.S. Higher Education's Transition to Online During the COVID-19 Pandemic” (MIS Quarterly)
This study examines digital resilience in higher education institutions by assessing the role played by the centralized governance of information technology (IT) investments. The researchers find that centralized IT investments geared toward facilitating organizational coordination and providing instructional and technical support played a pivotal role in enabling emergency remote teaching and improving student ratings during the crisis. These results are corroborated by interviews with CIOs of U.S. higher education institutions. Additional analyses also suggest that the effectiveness of centralized IT governance is contingent upon organizational size, dissimilarity of local units and the strategic role of the CIO.
Thank you to Jeff, Andy, Shijie, Drew, Yoonseock and Corey for your contributions.
In Notre Dame,
Martijn