Scholarly Achievements

James Hines organized a conference held in Washington, DC, on December 2, 2004, titled "Domestic Effects of Foreign Direct Investment" and sponsored by the International Tax Policy Forum and American Enterprise Institute.

He was appointed co-editor in January 2004 of the American Economic Association's Journal of Economic Perspectives, the most widely read journal in the economics profession.

He was co-organizer of Public Economics United Kingdom, the British research consortium on public finance.

Professor Hines had the following papers published or accepted in 2004: Hines, James R. Jr., & Taylor, Timothy (2004). Shortfalls in the long run: Predictions about the Social Security Trust Fund." Journal of Economic Perspectives, forthcoming.

Hines, James R. Jr. (forthcoming). Do tax havens flourish? in James M. Poterba (Ed.), Tax Policy and the Economy, 19. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hines, James R. Jr. (forthcoming). Sensible tax policies in open economies. Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland.

Himes, James R. Jr., Desai, Mihir, & Foley, C. Fritz (2004). A multinational perspective on capital structure choice and internal capital markets. Journal of Finance, 59(6), 2451-2487.

Hines, James R. Jr., Desai, Mihir, & Foley C. Fritz (2004). Foreign direct investment in a world of multiple taxes. Journal of Public Economics, 88(12), 2727-2744.

Hines, James R. Jr., & Desai, Mihir A. (2004). Old rules and new realities: Corporate tax policy in a global setting. National Tax Journal, 57(4), 937-960.

Hines, James R. Jr., Desai, Mihir A., & Foley, C. Fritz (2004). Might fundamental tax reform increase criminal activity? Economica, 71(283), 483-492.

Hines, James R. Jr., Desai, Mihir A., & Foley, C. Fritz (2004). The costs of shared ownership: Evidence from international joint ventures. Journal of Financial Economics, 73(2), 323-374.

Hines, James R. Jr. (2004). On the timeliness of tax reform. Journal of Public Economics, 88(5), 1043-1059.

Francine Lafontaine had the following papers published or accepted in 2004:
Lafontaine, Francine, & Shaw, Kathryn L. (2005). Targeting managerial control: Evidence from franchising. RAND Journal of Economics.

Lafontaine, Francine, & Kalnins, Arturs (forthcoming). Multi-unit ownership in franchising: Evidence from the fast-food industry in Texas. RAND Journal of Economics.

Lafontaine, Francine, & Oxley, Joanne (2004). International franchising practices in Mexico: Do franchisors customize their contracts? Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 13, 95-123.

She also has two books forthcoming in 2005: Lafontaine, Francine, & Blair, Roger (2005). The economics of franchising. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lafontaine, Francine (2005). Franchise contracting and organization (Ed.). Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

She has presented her work at the:
Federal Trade Commission, December 2004.
North Carolina State University, Department of Economics, December 2004.
Tulane University, Freeman School of Business, November 2004.
European Science Days Workshop on the Boundaries of the Firm, George Baker Organizer, Steyr, Austria, July 2004.
Journee du CREM, Universite de Caen, June 2004, France.
Universite de Rennes I Dept. of Economics, June 2004, France.
Iowa State University Dept. of Economics, April 2004.
International Industrial Organization Conference, Chicago, April 2004.
Michigan State University, Dept. of Economics, April 2004
University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business, April 2004
Dartmouth University, Tuck School of Business, February 2004.

Margaret C. Levenstein  has had the following papers published or accepted in 2004:
Levenstein, Margaret C., & Suslow, Valerie (forthcoming). The changing international status of export cartel exemptions. American University International Law Review, 20(3).

Levenstein, Margaret C., & Suslow, Valerie (2004). International price-fixing cartels and developing countries: Discussion of effects and policy remedies. Antitrust Law Journal, 71(3), 801-852.

Levenstein, Margaret C., & Suslow, Valerie (2004). The determinants of cartel duration from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, in How cartels endure and how they fail, Peter D. Grossman (Ed.). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.

She has presented her work at the:

13th WZB Conference on Markets and Political Economy and 2nd Workshop of the Research Training Network in Competition Policy in International Markets, Roundtable on Collusion, October 2004
NBER Development of the American Economy Summer Institute, July 2004
Business History Conference, June 2004
University of Madrid/Carlos, March 2004
Wharton School of Business, January 2004

Since 2003, Prof. Levenstein is also Executive Director, Michigan Census Research Data Center, and Associate Research Scientist, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. In that role she has been awarded a grant for "Information Technology Challenges for Secure Access to Confidential Social Science Data" by the National Science Foundation (John Abowd, PI).

Thomas P. Lyon has had the following papers published or accepted in 2004:
Lyon, Thomas P., & Mayo, John P. (forthcoming). Regulatory opportunism and investment behavior: Evidence from the electric utility industry. RAND Journal of Economics.

Lyon, Thomas P., & Aydogan, Neslihan (forthcoming). Spatial proximity and complementarities in the trading of tacit knowledge.. International Journal of Industrial Organization.

Lyon, Thomas P., & Maxwell, John W. (2004). Astroturf: Interest group lobbying and corporate strategy. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 13(4), 561-598.

Lyon, Thomas P., & Rasmusen, Eric (2004). Buyer-option contracts restored: Renegotiation, inefficient threats and the hold-up problem. Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 20(1), 148-169.

Lyon, Thomas P., & Maxwell, John W. (2004). Public voluntary programs for mitigating climate change, in Andrea Baranzini and Philippe Thalmann (Eds.). Voluntary agreements in climate policies. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Press.

Lyon, Thomas P., & Maxwell, John W. Corporate environmentalism and public policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lyon, Thomas P. (Ed.) (forthcoming). Regulation. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing..

He has presented his work at: U.S. Department of Justice, April and July 2004
American Economic Association (AEA) Session at the ASSA Meetings, San Diego, Jan. 3-5, 2004
University of Michigan, March 2004
Rutgers Advanced Workshop on Regulation, May 2004
Bridging the Gap: Sustainable Development, The First U.N. Global Compact Academic Conference, Philadelphia, Sept 17-18, 2004.

Joel Slemrod
Grant received from the Research Council of Norway to participate in an effort to assess the impact of the 1992 adoption of a dual income tax and the current tax system on portfolio composition and clienteles, and on the rate of personal saving across households.

Subcontract received from PricewaterhouseCoopers, which has been contracted to examine and analyze the costs borne by retailers of collecting and remitting state and local sales taxes within the United States.

Grant received from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in support of a conference, co-sponsored by the University of California - Berkeley's Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, titled "Taxing Corporate Income in the 21st Century." The conference will be held in Ann Arbor on May 5-6, 2005.

The 3rd edition of Joel Slemrod's book Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Debate over Taxes (co-authored with Jon Bakija) was published by MIT Press.

The Crisis in Tax Administration, an edited volume with Henry J. Aaron, was published by Brookings Institution Press.

Joel Slemrod was invited to prepare a Beck Memorial essay for the December 2004 issue of the National Tax Journal entitled "The Economics of Corporate Tax Selfishness."

Joel Slemrod is currently 1st Vice President of the National Tax Association and will become President in November 2005. He is also a member of the National Tax Association Executive Committee.

He had the following papers published or accepted in 2004:

Slemrod, Joel, & Crocker, Keith (forthcoming). Corporate tax evasion with agency costs. Journal of Public Economics.

Slemrod, Joel, & Katuscak, Peter (forthcoming). Do trust and trustworthiness pay off?" Journal of Human Resources.

Slemrod, Joel, Gordon, Roger, Kalambokidis, Laura, & Rohaly, Jeffrey (2004). Toward a consumption tax and beyond. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 94(2), 161-165.

Slemrod, Joel (forthcoming). The Feldstein elasticity. National Tax Journal Papers and Proceedings.

Slemrod, Joel, Kopczuk, Wojciech, & Yitzhaki, Shlomo (forthcoming). The limitations of decentralized redistribution: An optimal taxation approach. European Economic Review .

Slemrod, Joel, Gordon, Roger, & Kalambokidis, Laura (2004). A new summary measure of the effective tax rate on investment, in Peter Birch Sorensen (Ed.). Measuring the tax burden on capital and labor, MIT Press, 99-128.

Slemrod, Joel, Gordon, Roger, & Kalambokidis, Laura (2004). Do we now collect any revenue from taxing capital income? Journal of Public Economics, 88(5), 981-1009.

Slemrod, Joel, & Vasquez, Jaime (forthcoming). Tax administration in Colombia," in. R. Bird, J. Poterba, and J. Slemrod (Eds.). Fiscal reform in Colombia: Problems and prospects, MIT Press.

Small business and the tax system, in H. Aaron and J. Slemrod (Eds.). The crisis in tax administration, Brookings Institution Press, 69-101.

Slemrod, Joel (2004). "Are corporate tax rates, or countries, converging?" Journal of Public Economics, 88(6), 1169-1186.

He also had a book published in 2004: Slemrod, Joel, & Aaron, Henry (Eds.) (2004). The crisis in tax administration. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.

In addition Prof. Slemrod presented the keynote address at the American Taxation Association annual meeting in Orlando, August 2004, and prepared an invited written testimony for the Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Oversight, Hearing on Tax Simplification in June 2004.

Valerie Suslow has had the following papers published or accepted in 2004:
Suslow, Valerie, & Levenstein, Margaret (forthcoming). The changing international status of export cartel exemptions. American University International Law Review, 20(3).

Suslow, Valerie, & Levenstein, Margaret (2004). International price-fixing cartels and developing countries: A discussion of effects and policy remedies. Antitrust Law Journal, 71(3), 801-852.

Suslow, Valerie, & Levenstein, Margaret (2004). Studies of cartel stability: A comparison of methodological approaches, in Peter Grossman (Ed.). How cartels endure and how they fail: Studies of industrial collusion, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar, 9-52.

She has also presented her work at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Development of the American Economy Conference, July 2004, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, May 2004.

In addition, Prof. Suslow has been asked to contribute a lecture for the very first issue of a new BEpress journal that will contain lectures and teaching materials in IO, regulation, IO-trade and theory of the firm.

Jan Svejnar had the following papers published or accepted in 2004:
Svejnar, Jan, Munich, D., & Terrell, K. (forthcoming). Do markets pay women more than planners? Journal of Comparative Economics.

Svejnar, Jan, Munich, D., & Terrell, K. (forthcoming). Returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy. Review of Economics and Statistics.

Svejnar, Jan, Sabirianova, K., & Terrell, K. (forthcoming). FDI spillovers and distance of firms to the frontier. Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings.

Svejnar, Jan, Basu, S., & Estrin, S. (forthcoming). Employment determination in enterprises under communism and in transition: Evidence from central Europe. Industrial and Labor Relations Review.

Svejnar, Jan (2004). Can we turn Europe's differences to business advantage? Europe poised to move up a gear. European Business Forum, 17, 7-10.

Svejnar, Jan (forthcoming). Integration and inequality in the countries of new Europe," in Gudrun Kochendorfer-Lucius and Boris Pleskovic (Eds.). Equity and development. Berlin and Washington DC: Inwent - World Bank.

Svejnar, Jan (forthcoming). Comment on contrasting Europe's decline: Do product market reforms help?" in Ricardo Faini and Tito Boeri (Eds.), Contrasting Europe's decline: Do product market reforms help? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Svejnar, Jan (2004). Labor market flexibility in central and eastern Europe," in Marek Dabrowski and Ben Slay (Eds.), Beyond transition, M. E. Sharpe.

Katherine Terrell had the following papers published or accepted in 2004:
Terrell, K., Munich, D., & Svejnar, J. (forthcoming). Do markets pay women more than planners?" Journal of Comparative Economics.

Terrell, K., Munich, D., & Svejnar, J. (2004). Returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy. Review of Economics and Statistics, 83(1).

Terrell, K., Sabirianova, K., & Svejnar, J. (forthcoming). Distance to the efficiency frontier and FDI spillovers. Journal of the European Economic Association, Papers and Proceedings.

Terrell, K., & Gindling, T. (2004). Minimum wages, inequality and globalization. Michigan Journal of International Law, 26(1).

She has presented her work at the: Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, Costa Rica, November 4-6, 2004
Harvard Business School International Business Conference, Cambridge, October 21-22, 2004
Vanderbilt University, Economics Department, October 11, 2004
Northwestern University, Economics Department, October 7, 2004
MacArthur Research Network on Inequality and Economic Performance, Prague, September 10, 2004
European Economic Association, Madrid, August 22, 2004
London Business School, Comparative Transition Conference, June 11-12, 2004
IXth WDI-CEPR International Conference on Transition, Vietnam, May 28-June 1, 2004
University of Michigan Law School, Conference on "Globalization, Law and Development," April 16-18, 2004
American Economic Association (AEA) Session at the ASSA Meetings, San Diego, January 3-5, 2004
Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES) Session at the ASSA Meetings, San Diego, January 3-5, 2004

Prof. Terrell also has been asked by the economic advisor to the President of Honduras to conduct a study of minimum wages in that country. On December 6, 2004, in Tegucigalpa, she presented her work on the impact of minimum wages in Costa Rica to a group of business leaders, technical staff of various ministries, international organizations and the President's economic advisory team. She also has been invited by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico to give a keynote speech at the annual convention of the Chamber of Commerce in Mexico City in January 2005.

During 2004 he received the following honors:

The Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from the University of Michigan
Was offered the Henry Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress (declined)
Was offered and accepted the following appointments: Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, 2004-05
Fellow, Beijing University Political Development and Government Management Research Institute, 2004-2006
Board of Directors, US-China Policy Foundation
Board of Directors and Member of the Board's Executive Committee, National Committee on US-China Relations
Board of Advisors, Forum on Northeast Asia Security of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy
Charter Member, United States Asia Pacific Council

Publications in 2004 include:

Lieberthal, K. (2004). US-China relations in the wake of the 16th party congress and tenth national people's congress, in Chu, Lo, and Myers (Eds.), The new Chinese leadership: Challenges and opportunities after the 16th party congress, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 180-197.

Lieberthal, K. (forthcoming). The coming crisis over intellectual property rights. The Harvard Business Review.

Vern Terpstra
Vern Terpstra, professor emeritus, has been awarded the 2004 Significant Contributions to Global Marketing Research Award presented by the American Marketing Association Global Marketing Special Interest Group. The award recognizes the contributions of marketing faculty members who have contributed significantly to the advancement of global marketing thought during their careers.

James Walsh (CSIB & M&0)
He recently presented his work at a National Science Foundation Conference, the Organization Science Winter Conference, and at seminars at the University of Michigan and Emory University.

Walsh, James, & Margolis, Joshua D. (2004). Misery loves companies: Rethinking social initiatives by business. Administrative Science Quarterly, 48, 268-305.

Walsh, James, Weber, Klaus, & Margolis, Joshua D. (2004). Social issues and management: Our lost cause found. Journal of Management, 29(6) 859-881.

Publications Rajan, Uday, Goettler, Ron, & Parlour, Christine (forthcoming). Equilibrium in a dynamic limit order market. Journal of Finance.

Rajan, Uday, Telang, Rahul, & Mukhopadhyay, Tridas (2004). The market structure for Internet search engines. Journal of Management Information Systems, 21(2), 137--160.

Clemens Sialm
Awards and Honors 2004:
Inquire Europe Research Grant for 2004 for project on "Uncovering Hidden Costs of Equity Mutual Funds" (with Marcin Kacpercyzk and Lu Zheng).

2nd Prize, 2004 Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Paper Competition for project on "Portfolio Concentration and the Performance of Individual Investors" (joint with Zoran Ivkovich and Scott Weisbenner).

Publications 2004:
Sialm, Clemens, Kacperczyk, Marcin, & Zheng, Lu (forthcoming). On the industry concentration of actively managed equity mutual funds. Journal of Finance.

Sialm, Clemens, Poterba, James, & Shoven, John (2004). Asset location for retirement savers, In William G. Gale et al. (Eds.), Private pensions and public policies. Washington: Brookings Institution, 290-331.

Presentations in 2004:
American Finance Association, San Diego
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Paper Competition
European Finance Association, Maastricht, The Netherlands
European Financial Management Association, Basel, Switzerland
Finance Research Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas
Rutgers Conference on Security Innovation, New York
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Lu Zheng
Inquire Europe Research Grant for 2004 for project on "Uncovering Hidden Costs of Equity Mutual Funds" (with Marcin Kacpercyzk and Clemens Sialm).

Publications:
Zheng, Lu, Nanda, Vikram, & Wang, Jay (2004). Family values and the star phenomenon.
The Review of Financial Studies, 667-698.

Zheng, Lu, Kacperczyk, Marcin, & Sialm, Clemens (forthcoming). On the industry concentration of actively managed equity mutual funds. The Journal of Finance.

Zheng, Lu, Barber, Brad, & Odean, Terry (forthcoming). Out of sight, out of mind: The effects of expenses on mutual fund flows. The Journal of Business.

Zheng, Lu, & Cai, Fang (forthcoming). Institutional trading and stock returns. Finance Research Letters.

Awards:
Research grant awarded by INQUIRE (Institute for Quantitative Investment Research) for "Unobserved Actions of Mutual Funds" (with Marcin T. Kacperczyk and Clemens Sialm).

Papers accepted for presentations:
"On the Industry Concentration of Actively Managed Equity Mutual Funds" (with Marcin Kacperczyk and Clemens Sialm). American Finance Association Meetings, Philadelphia, 2005.

"The ABCs of Mutual Funds: A Natural Experiment on Fund Flows and Performance" (with Vikram Nanda and Jay Wang). American Finance Association Meetings, Philadelphia, 2005.

"Tax-loss Selling and the January Effect: Evidence from Municipal Bond Closed-End Funds" (with Laura T. Starks and Li Yong). American Finance Association Meetings, Philadelphia, 2005.

Cindy Schipani
Dana Muir and Cindy Schipani received the Outstanding Proceedings Paper Award at the Academy of Legal Studies in Business National Meeting in Ottawa in August for their paper titled: "Corporate Governance and Fiduciary Obligation: Do the Two Coincide in the Post-Enron Environment?"

Research presentations:
"The Role of Shareholders in Corporate Governance," International Conference on Company Law, Beijing, PRC, November 2004.

"The Role of the Board of Directors in Corporate Governance," International Conference on Company Law, Beijing, PRC, November 2004.

"The Changing Face of Parent and Subsidiary Corporations: Enterprise Theory and Federal Regulation," University of Connecticut Law School Symposium, October 2004.

"Impact of Corporate Governance Reform in the United States," Corporate Governance Conference 2004, Hong Kong, October 2004

Publications:
Schipani, Cindy, & Fort, Tim (2004). Ecology and violence: The environmental dimensions of war. Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, 29, 243-278.

Schipani, Cindy, & Fort, Tim (2004). The role of business in fostering peaceful societies. Cambridge University Press.

George Siedel
George Siedel presented some fascinating "Decision Tools and Traps" at an April seminar on "Developing a New Era of Global Leaders. Three of the eight decision influencers Siedel presented, each cited from Max Bazerman's text "Judgment in Managerial Decision Making" (Wiley, 1998), seemed particularly relevant to issue management, especially in terms of how to negotiate with stakeholders. The seminar was organized by AIESEC Michigan, a student-run, nonprofit international organization dedicated to increasing cultural understanding and cooperation through the facilitation of an international internship program.

Jane Dutton
Dutton, Jane, Kanov, J., Maitlis, S., Worline, M., Frost, P., & Lilius, J. (2004). Compassion in organizational life. American Behavioral Scientist, 47(6), 808-827.

Two papers were presented at the National Academy of Management meetings: "Enacting the Reflected Best Self: How Jolts and Socially Embedded Resources Enable Action in and Beyond Organizations" (with Heaphy, E., L. Roberts, G. Spreitzer and B. Barker) and "Using Energy to Create Actionable Knowledge" (with Spreitzer, G., K. Sutcliffe, S. Sonenshein and A. Grant).

She organized (with Mary Ann Glynn) a Professional Development Workshop on Positive Organizational Scholarship at the meetings that drew the highest attendance of faculty and Ph.D. students at the national meetings. In October she held a book-building conference on "Exploring Positive Relationships at Work" (sponsored by the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship) that is under contract for a book that will be forthcoming in 2006. Dutton won the "Breaking the Frame Award" for the best paper published in the Journal of Management Inquiry in 2003 for "Breathing Life into Organizational Studies."

Robert Quinn
A collaborative research proposal, "Nursing Connections: Strategies to Enhance Nurse Retention," was funded by the University of Michigan's Hospital and Health Centers. The Project Director is Margaret M. Calarco, Ph.D., RN. Kim Cameron from the Ross School of Business is a co-investigator. The purpose of this project is to significantly extend their work in changing the organizational culture to increase nurse satisfaction and retention, improve patient satisfaction and clinical care outcomes, and create a sustainable infrastructure and process for these improvements to continue across the health system.

Gretchen Spreitzer
Publications: Spreitzer, Gretchen, Perttula Hopkins, Kimberly, and Xin, Katherine. (forthcoming) A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Effectiveness of Transformational Leadership. Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Roberts, Laura Morgan, Spreitzer, Gretchen, Dutton, Jane, Quinn, Robert, Heaphy, Emily, and Barker, Brianna. (2005). How to play to your strengths. Harvard Business Review, 83(1): 75-80.

Brockner, Joel, Spreitzer, Gretchen, Mishra, Aneil, Pepper, Lew, and Hochwarter, Wayne. (2004). Perceived Control as an Antidote to the Negative Effects of Layoffs on Survivors' Organizational Commitment and Job Performance. Administrative Science Quarterly, 49: 76-100.

Lynn Wooten
A collaborative research proposal, "Health Disparities: Leaders, Providers and Patients," was submitted and funded in 2004 by the National Institute of Health (P20 grant— Exploratory Centers for Interdisciplinary Research). Lynn is a core Lead investigator. The Principal Investigator, Scott Ransom, has appointments in Medicine and Public Health. Other investigators are from the following units across campus: Social Work, Obstretrics and Gynecology, Information, Public Health, Nursing's Midwifery unit, Psychology, Social Work's Center on Poverty and Nursing's Center for Health Promotion.

Thomas Kinnear
Thomas Kinnear, Eugene Applebaum Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, has been appointed by Governor Jennifer Granholm to the Michigan Early Stage Venture Investment Corporation Board of Governors. Professor Kinnear is appointed to represent statewide organizations exempt from taxation under sections 501(c)3 or 501(c)4 of the Internal Revenue code for a term expiring June 10, 2007.

Aradhna Krishna
Christina L. Brown and Aradhna Krishna (2004), "The Skeptical Shopper: A Metacognitive Account for the Effects of Default Options on Choice," Journal of Consumer Research, 31 (3): 529-539. 

Venkat Ramaswamy
"The New Frontier of Experience Innovation,” (co-authored with Professor C.K. Prahalad) was awarded the 2004 MIT PricewaterhouseCoopers award for best article that contributed to the advancement of management practice.

Norbert Schwarz
Honors:
Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Wilhelm Wundt Medal for distinguished contributions to psychology, German Psychological Association (jointly with Fritz Strack, Wurzburg)
Honorary Member (Ehrenmitglied) of the German Psychological Association
Franco Nicosia ACR Competitive Paper Award, Association for Consumer Research & Jagdish Sheth Foundation (jointly with Kim Weaver, Stephen Garcia, and Dale Miller)

New Grants:
"Roybal Center for Research on Experience and Well-Being," Co-PI, with Daniel Kahneman, Alan Krueger, David Schkade, and Arthur Stone; National Institute of Aging (AG024928), 2004-2009

"Ecological validity in patient reported chronic disease outcomes," Co-PI, with Arthur Stone, Joan Broderick, and Joseph Schwartz; National Institutes of Health (AR052170), 2004-2009.

Publications:
Kahneman, D., Krueger, A. B., Schkade, D., Schwarz, N., & Stone, A. A. (2004). A survey method for characterizing daily life experience: The Day Reconstruction Method (DRM). Science, 306, 1776-1780.

Kahneman, D., Krueger, A. B., Schkade, D., Schwarz, N., & Stone, A. A. (2004). Toward national well-being accounts. American Economic Review,94, 429-434.

Schwarz, N. (2004). Meta-cognitive experiences in consumer judgment and decision making. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 14, 332-348.

Schwarz, N. (2004). Meta-cognitive experiences: Response to commentaries. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 14, 370-373.

Sanna, L., & Schwarz, N. (2004). Integrating temporal biases: The interplay of focal thoughts and accessibility experiences. Psychological Science, 17, 474-481.

Reber, R., Schwarz, N., & Winkielman, P. (2004). Processing fluency and aesthetic pleasure: Is beauty in the perceiver's processing experience? Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8, 364-382.

Kneuper, B., Schwarz, N., & Park, D. C. (2004). Frequency reports across age groups: Differential effects of frequency scales. Journal of Official Statistics, 20, 91-96.

Kemmelmeier, M., Schwarz, N., Bless, H., & Bohner, G. (2004). What research participants learn from rewards: A conversational logic analysis of rewarding reasoning performance. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/Current Psychology of Cognition, 22, 267-287.

Translations & Reprints of Earlier Publications:
Park, D. C., & Schwarz, N. (Eds.) (2000). Cognitive aging: A primer. Philadelphia: Psychology Press. - Japanese translation published by Kitaoji Shobo, Tokyo, 2004.

Schwarz, N. & Oyserman, D. (2001). Asking questions about behavior: Cognition, communication and questionnaire construction. American Journal of Evaluation, 22, 127-160. -- Reprinted in Russian translation, Russian Journal of Sociology, 2004, 34-74.

Chasteen, A., Schwarz, N., & Park, D. C. (2002). The activation of aging stereotypes in younger and older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 57B, P540-P547. -- Reprinted in H. Cox (Ed.) (2004). Annual Editions: Aging 04/05. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Schwarz, N., Bless, H., Strack, F., Klumpp, G., Rittenauer-Schatka, H., & Simons, A. (1991). Ease of retrieval as information: Another look at the availability heuristic. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61, 195-202. -- Reprinted in D. L. Hamilton (Ed.) (2004), Social cognition: Classic and contemporary readings. Philadelphia: Psychology Press.

Presentations:
McFadden, D., Schwarz, N., & Winter, J. (2004, January). Measures of planned behavior in household surveys. In D. McFadden (chair), The behavioral economics of households. American Economic Association, San Diego, CA.

Kahneman, D., Krueger, A., Schkade, D., Schwarz, N., & Stone, A. (2004, January). Towards a national well-being account. In R. H. Thaler (chair), Memos to Council of Economic Advisors. American Economic Association, San Diego, CA.

Schwarz, N. (2004, January). Survey response behavior: An overview. RAND Workshop on Response Errors in Surveys of the Elderly, Santa Monica, CA.

Schwarz, N., & Winter, J. (2004, January). Bracketing effects. RAND Workshop on Response Errors in Surveys of the Elderly, Santa Monica, CA.

Small, E. M., Sanna, L. J., Schwarz, N., & Carter, S. E. (2004, January). Facial expressions, perceived effort, and the hindsight bias: "Backfire" and "it-could-never-have-happened" effects. Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.

Schwarz, N., Dhar, R., Novemsky, N., & Simonson, I. (2004, January). Fluency experiences in decision making. In J. Lerner (chair), The feel of a decision. Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.

Xu, J., & Schwarz, N. (2004, April). Is driving a BMW more enjoyable than driving an Escort? Depends on how you ask. 34th Annual Haring Symposium, Indiana University Kelley School of Business, Bloomington, IN.

Brown, C. L., Goldberg, J. L., & Schwarz, N. (2004, April). Why tip the waitress? How identity moderates the conflict between economic and social norms. Behavioral Decision Research and Management Conference, Durham, NC.

Cha, O., Schwarz, N., & Oyserman, D. (2004, May). Turning Asians into Westerners: Priming independent self-construals in Korea. American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL.

Chandler, J. J., Konrath, S. H., & Schwarz, N. (2004, May). Not just a game: Self-esteem and the motives for online gaming. American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL.

Konrath, S. H., Schwarz, N., & Meier, B. (2004, May). Seeing President Bush: Presidential primaries increase impressions that others are aggressive. American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL.

Schwarz, N., Dhar, R., Novemsky, N., & Simonson, I. (2004, May). When decisions feel difficult. Decision Consortium Conference, Ann Arbor, MI.

Schwarz, N. (2004, June). Experiential information in judgment and decision making. Sixth Invitational Choice Symposium, Estes Park, CO.

Schwarz, N. (2004, July). Malleable inferences from meta-cognitive experiences: The role of naive theories. Conference on Social Meta-Cognition, Heidelberg, Germany.

Schwarz, N., & Strack, F. (2004, July). Do we know if we are happy? Conference, "Economics Meets Psychology," Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt, Germany.

Smith, D., Schwarz, N., Todd, R. R., & Ubel, P. A. (2004, October). The perils of informed consent: Standard survey instructions can bias responses. Society for Medical Decision Making, Atlanta, GA.

Xu, J., & Schwarz, N. (2004, October). Is driving a Lexus more enjoyable than driving an Escort? Depends on how you think about it. In J. W. Pracejus (chair), Emergent moderators of affective response in consumer behavior. Association for Consumer Research, Portland, OR.

Xu, J., & Schwarz, N. (2004, November) Was it long ago or unimportant? Diverging inferences from difficulty of recall. Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Minneapolis, MN.

Schwarz, N. (2004, November). When thinking is difficult: Metacognitive experiences in judgment and choice. Conference on Behavioral Science & Behavioral Finance, Yale School of Management, New Haven, CT.

Michel Wedel

Honors:
June 2004 received an Honorary Chair, Department of Economics, University of Groningen Researcher of the year 2004, Ross School of Business
O'dell award 2004, Journal of Marketing Research

Invited presentations:
Anderson School of Management, UCLA
Fisher School of Business, OSU
Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley
AMA-ART Forum Tutorial on Market Segmentation (Whistler, Canada)
Invitational Choice Conference (Boulder)
Association of Consumer Research Doctoral Consortium (Portland)
Informs Marketing Science Doctoral Consortium (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
International Conference of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Tokyo, Japan)
Conference of the Japan Institute of Marketing Science (Tokyo, Japan)
Conference of the Research Institute Systems, Organization and Management (Groningen, Netherlands)
Winter AMA (San Antonio, USA)
Harvard Business School (Boston, USA)

Publications:
Wedel, M. & Zhang, J. (2004). Analyzing brand competition across subcategories. Journal of Marketing Research, 41(4).

Paap, R., Van Nierop, E., van Heerde, H. J., Wedel, M., Franses, Ph. H., & Alsem, K. J. (2004). Consideration sets, intentions, and the inclusion of "don't know" in a two-stage model for voter choice. International Journal of Forecasting, 20(4).

Kamakura, W. A., Kosslar, B., & Wedel, M. (2004). Identifying innovators for the cross selling of new products. Management Science, 50(8), 1120-1132.

Pieters, F. G. M., & Wedel, M. (2004). Attention capture and transfer by elements of advertisements. Journal of Marketing, 68(2), 36-50.

Ebbes, P., Bockenholt, U., & Wedel, M. (2004). Regressor and random-effects dependencies in multilevel models. Statistica Neerlandica, 58(2), 161-178.

Kamakura, W. A., & Wedel, M. (2004). An empirical Bayes procedure for improving individual level estimates and predictions from finite mixtures of multinomial logic models. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 22(1), 121-126.

Goncalves-Dias, J., & Wedel, M. (2004). On EM, SEM and MCMC performance for problematic mixture Gaussian likelihoods. Statistics and Computing, 14(4), 323-332.

Frank Yates
A conference proposal, "Teaching Decision Behavior: A Conference," was submitted in 2004 to the National Science Foundation, Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), Decision and Risk & Management Science Program. It will be awarded/funded early in 2005.

Jie Zhang
Jie Zhang's paper "Analyzing Brand Competitions across Subcategories," coauthored with Michel Wedel, appears in the November 2004 issue of Journal of Marketing Research.

She gave an invited presentation on "An Integrated Model of Alternative Mechanisms of In-Store Display and Feature Advertising on Brand Choice" at the special session on promotions at the Marketing Science Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 2004.

Amitabh Sinha
He joined the department in September 2004, having completed his PhD in "Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization" at Carnegie Mellon University in May 2004. One of the chapters of his dissertation is a forthcoming article in Operations Research: "Approximation algorithms for problems combining facility location and network design", co-authored with R. Ravi at Carnegie Mellon.