Faculty & Research

  • Yang Pan
    Study Reveals How Risk Preferences Shape Online Trading Outcomes

    A study co-authored by a researcher at Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business has uncovered important insights into how individual investors' risk preferences influence their online trading behaviors and…

  • Research Notes: Hongseok Jang

    Hongseok Jang's paper "Tailoring Technology for Heterogeneous Shoppers: Implications for e-Retail Channel Competition” was accepted for publication in Journal of Management Information Systems.

  • Research Notes: Musa Caglar

    Musa Caglar's paper "A Parsimonious Tree Augmented Naive Bayes Model for Exploring Colorectal Cancer Survival Factors and Their Conditional Interrelations” was accepted for publication in Information Systems Frontiers…

  • Professor helped overturn Louisiana's same-sex marriage ban

    Most people today take same-sex marriage for granted, but the legal right for LGBT couples to marry was established less than 10 years ago, and Chris Otten, professor of practice in business and legal studies, played a part…

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    Research Notes: Alissa Bilfield

    Alissa Bilfield's paper "Exploring the Implications of the Fair Trade USA Certification for Farmworker Health and Well-being at the First Certified Farm in the U.S.," co-authored with Edmundo Hernandez, was published in the…

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    2024 Research Award Winners

    At the May meeting of the A. B. Freeman School of Business faculty, Dean Paulo Goes announced the following faculty members as recipients of 2024 research awards.

  • Yang Pan
    Research Notes: Yang Pan

    Yang Pan's paper "Mobile Apps, Trading Behaviors, and Portfolio Performance: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in China," co-authored with Chewei Liu, Sunil Mithas and J.J. Po-An Hsieh, has been accepted for publication in…

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    Study: Vanishing photos make matches multiply on dating apps

    A new Tulane University study finds that sharing ephemeral photos, which vanish after being seen, can increase the number of matches on a dating app. The study was published in Information Systems Research.

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    Research suggests ‘ephemeral sharing’ can break the ice in online dating

    A study from a professor at the A. B. Freeman School of Business suggests that a new privacy feature has the potential to put dating app users more at ease and ultimately lead to more romantic connections.

  • Research Notes: Yumei He

    Yumei He's paper "Enhancing User Privacy Through Ephemeral Sharing Design: Experimental Evidence from Online Dating" has been accepted for publication in Information Systems Research (ISR).

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    AI sentencing cut jail time for low-risk offenders, but study finds racial bias persisted

    Judges relying on artificial intelligence tools to determine criminal sentences handed down markedly less jail time in tens of thousands of cases, but also appeared to discriminate against Black offenders despite the…

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    Research Notes: Deen Kemsley

    Deen Kemsley's paper "Tax Evasion Savings versus Unlawful Predicate Proceeds: A Substance-Based Approach," co-authored with Sean A. Kemsley (University of Texas at Austin), has been accepted for publication in the 

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    Tulane study finds better way for stores to get consumers to ‘stock up’ on sales

    Retailers may want to rethink advertising their next big sale as an opportunity for customers to “stock up and save.” A new Tulane University study suggests a better way to boost sales.

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    Research Notes: Russ Robins

    Russ Robins' paper "A New Look at Expected Stock Returns and Volatility" has been accepted for publication in Critical Finance Review.

  • Research Notes: Scott Kuban

    Assistant Professor of Management Scott Kuban's paper "Peer Response to Regulatory Enforcement: Lobbying by Non-Sanctioned Firms," co-authored with Jason Ridge, Dan Worrell, Sergei Kolomeitsev and Kristie Moergen, has been…

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    Research Notes: Amanda Heitz

    Amanda Heitz's paper "The Power of the People: Labor Unions and Corporate Social Responsibility," co-authored with Youan Wang and Zigan Wang, has been accepted for publication in Review of Finance.

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    Research Notes: Fariba Mamaghani

    Fariba Mamaghani's paper "Harvesting Solar Power Foments Prices in a Vicious Cycle: Breaking the Cycle with Price Mechanisms," co-authored with Metin Cakanyildirim, has been accepted for publication in Operations…

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    Research Notes: Oleg Gredil

    Oleg Gredil’s paper “Do Employees Cheer for Private Equity? The Heterogeneous Effects of Buyouts on Job Quality” has been accepted for publication in Management Science.

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    New study sheds light on consumers’ retail pricing strategy preferences

    A new study by Chris Hydock, assistant professor of marketing, finds that consumers’ preferences for Everyday Low Price versus High-Low Pricing retailers depends in large part on whether the consumer is more focused on taste…

  • Research Notes: Ian Ho

    Yi-Jen “Ian” Ho’s working paper “AI Enforcement: Examining the Impact of AI on Judicial Fairness and Public Safety,” co-authored with Wael Jabar and Yifan Zhang, received the 2023 INFORMS ISS Cluster Best Paper Award from…

  • Research Notes: Ben King

    Assistant Professor of Management Ben King's paper "Reconciling Theories on Why Employees of Small Firms Are More Likely to Become Entrepreneurs," co-authored with Evan Starr and Martin Ganco, has been accepted for…

  • Research Notes: Chris Hydock

    Assistant Professor of Marketing Chris Hydock's paper "Not Just about Price: How Benefit Focus Determines Consumers’ Retailer Pricing Strategy Preference," co-authored with Luc Wathieu (Georgetown University), has been…

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    Study shows human presence in venue photos can turn off viewers

    Social media marketers routinely share photos of people vacationing in exotic locales or attending events at exclusive venues, but new research from a professor at Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business…

  • Simin Li
    Research Notes: Simin Li

    Assistant Professor of Management Science Simin Li’s paper “Is Full Price the Full Story When Consumers Have Time and Budget Constraints?,” co-authored with Martin A. Lariviere and Achal Bassamboo (Northwestern University),…

  • Research Notes: Musa Caglar

    Musa Caglar’s paper “Public R&D Project Portfolio Selection Under Expenditure Uncertainty,” co-authored with Sinan Gurel, has been accepted for publication in Annals of Operations Research.