Essays in Corporate Finance and Industrial Organization
Essays in Corporate Finance and Industrial Organization
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211152744
- ISBN
- 9798342108416
- DDC
- 070
- 저자명
- Conway, Jacob.
- 서명/저자
- Essays in Corporate Finance and Industrial Organization
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Stanford University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 274 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-04, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Gentzkow, Matthew.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation combines three essays that study how individuals' preferences and perceptions on social and political issues influence their behavior, with the goal of better understanding the implications for firms and society. These essays similarly focus on quantifying the causal effects of social identities, while studying distinct settings using a variety of econometric and machine learning methods.Chapter 1, "Consuming Values," is co-authored with Levi Boxell. We study the extent to which individuals' consumption decisions are influenced by firms' stances on controversial social issues and the implied incentives for firms to take such stances. We use transactions from a major payment card company to predict cardholders' likely social alignment with firm stances and to quantify effects on consumption. The social stances taken by firms increase revenue on average, with significant heterogeneity across consumers and firm stances. Consumers most aligned with a firm's social stance increase their consumption at the firm by 19 percent in the month following widely known social stance events, and consumers most opposed to the firm's stance decrease their consumption by 11 percent. These diverging consumption responses attenuate over time but persist even a year later. Firms tend to take stances that align with their consumers' and employees' social preferences and that correlate with the firm's ownership structure. Together our results show that consumers meaningfully respond to their social alignment with firms, and that this consumer response can incentivize profit-maximizing firms to engage with social issues.Chapter 2, "Journalist Ideology and the Production of News: Evidence from Movers," is also co-authored with Levi Boxell. In this essay, we quantify the role that journalists play in determining the political slant of the news they produce. We develop a model where journalists and newspaper outlets contract over both slant and wages. The model implies a set of conditions under which we can consistently estimate the role of journalist preferences in driving the observed variation in slant across outlets by leveraging journalist transitions between outlets. To measure slant, we train a transformer-based, machine learning model using articles tweeted by politicians and apply it to a full-text database of 20+ million newspaper articles published in the US between 2013 and 2018. Applying our model-informed estimators to the data, our estimates (a) reject the hypothesis that journalists have zero ideological preferences over the content they produce and (b) imply that 16 percent of observed variation in slant across outlets can be explained by journalist preferences.Chapter 3, "The Gendered Impacts of Perceived Skin Tone: Evidence from African American Siblings in 1870--1940," is co-authored with Ran Abramitzky, Roy Mill, and Luke Stein. We study differences in economic outcomes by perceived skin tone among African Americans using full-count U.S. decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Comparing children coded as "Black" or "Mulatto" by census enumerators and linking these children across population censuses, we first document large gaps in educational attainment and income among African Americans with darker and lighter perceived skin tones. To disentangle the drivers of these gaps, we identify all 36,329 families in which enumerators assigned same-gender siblings different Black/Mulatto classifications. Relative to sisters coded as Mulatto, sisters coded as Black had lower educational attainment, were less likely to marry, and had lower-earning, less-educated husbands. These patterns are consistent with more severe contemporaneous discrimination against African American women with darker perceived skin tones. In contrast, we find similar educational attainment, marital outcomes, and incomes among differently-classified brothers. Men perceived as African Americans of any skin tone faced similar contemporaneous discrimination, consistent with the "one-drop" racial classification rule that grouped together individuals with any known Black ancestry. Lower incomes for African American men perceived as having darker skin tone in the general population were driven by differences in opportunities and resources that varied across families, likely reflecting the impacts of historical or family-level discrimination.Each of these three essays represents work-in-progress. Together, they contribute to our understanding of how social and political issues influence the incentives and behavior of firms and individuals, with implications for the fields of corporate finance and industrial organization.
- 일반주제명
- Journalism
- 일반주제명
- Journalists
- 일반주제명
- Gender
- 일반주제명
- Families & family life
- 일반주제명
- Age groups
- 일반주제명
- Race
- 일반주제명
- Educational attainment
- 일반주제명
- Partisanship
- 일반주제명
- Education
- 기타저자
- Stanford University.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-04A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aThis dissertation combines three essays that study how individuals' preferences and perceptions on social and political issues influence their behavior, with the goal of better understanding the implications for firms and society. These essays similarly focus on quantifying the causal effects of social identities, while studying distinct settings using a variety of econometric and machine learning methods.Chapter 1, "Consuming Values," is co-authored with Levi Boxell. We study the extent to which individuals' consumption decisions are influenced by firms' stances on controversial social issues and the implied incentives for firms to take such stances. We use transactions from a major payment card company to predict cardholders' likely social alignment with firm stances and to quantify effects on consumption. The social stances taken by firms increase revenue on average, with significant heterogeneity across consumers and firm stances. Consumers most aligned with a firm's social stance increase their consumption at the firm by 19 percent in the month following widely known social stance events, and consumers most opposed to the firm's stance decrease their consumption by 11 percent. These diverging consumption responses attenuate over time but persist even a year later. Firms tend to take stances that align with their consumers' and employees' social preferences and that correlate with the firm's ownership structure. Together our results show that consumers meaningfully respond to their social alignment with firms, and that this consumer response can incentivize profit-maximizing firms to engage with social issues.Chapter 2, "Journalist Ideology and the Production of News: Evidence from Movers," is also co-authored with Levi Boxell. In this essay, we quantify the role that journalists play in determining the political slant of the news they produce. We develop a model where journalists and newspaper outlets contract over both slant and wages. The model implies a set of conditions under which we can consistently estimate the role of journalist preferences in driving the observed variation in slant across outlets by leveraging journalist transitions between outlets. To measure slant, we train a transformer-based, machine learning model using articles tweeted by politicians and apply it to a full-text database of 20+ million newspaper articles published in the US between 2013 and 2018. Applying our model-informed estimators to the data, our estimates (a) reject the hypothesis that journalists have zero ideological preferences over the content they produce and (b) imply that 16 percent of observed variation in slant across outlets can be explained by journalist preferences.Chapter 3, "The Gendered Impacts of Perceived Skin Tone: Evidence from African American Siblings in 1870--1940," is co-authored with Ran Abramitzky, Roy Mill, and Luke Stein. We study differences in economic outcomes by perceived skin tone among African Americans using full-count U.S. decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Comparing children coded as "Black" or "Mulatto" by census enumerators and linking these children across population censuses, we first document large gaps in educational attainment and income among African Americans with darker and lighter perceived skin tones. To disentangle the drivers of these gaps, we identify all 36,329 families in which enumerators assigned same-gender siblings different Black/Mulatto classifications. Relative to sisters coded as Mulatto, sisters coded as Black had lower educational attainment, were less likely to marry, and had lower-earning, less-educated husbands. These patterns are consistent with more severe contemporaneous discrimination against African American women with darker perceived skin tones. In contrast, we find similar educational attainment, marital outcomes, and incomes among differently-classified brothers. Men perceived as African Americans of any skin tone faced similar contemporaneous discrimination, consistent with the "one-drop" racial classification rule that grouped together individuals with any known Black ancestry. Lower incomes for African American men perceived as having darker skin tone in the general population were driven by differences in opportunities and resources that varied across families, likely reflecting the impacts of historical or family-level discrimination.Each of these three essays represents work-in-progress. Together, they contribute to our understanding of how social and political issues influence the incentives and behavior of firms and individuals, with implications for the fields of corporate finance and industrial organization.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0212.
■650 4▼aJournalism
■650 4▼aJournalists
■650 4▼aGender
■650 4▼aFamilies & family life
■650 4▼aAge groups
■650 4▼aRace
■650 4▼aEducational attainment
■650 4▼aPartisanship
■650 4▼aEducation
■650 4▼aIndividual & family studies
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■71020▼aStanford University.
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■790 ▼a0212
■791 ▼aPh.D.
■792 ▼a2024
■793 ▼aEnglish
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