scholarly journals Market Design, Human Behavior, and Management

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Chen ◽  
Peter Cramton ◽  
John A. List ◽  
Axel Ockenfels
Keyword(s):  
Design Theory ◽  
Market Design ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Matching Markets ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Feedback Systems ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
65Th Anniversary ◽  
Private And Public

We review past research and discuss future directions on how the vibrant research areas of market design and behavioral economics have influenced and will continue to impact the science and practice of management in both the private and public sectors. Using examples from various auction markets, reputation and feedback systems in online markets, matching markets in education, and labor markets, we demonstrate that combining market design theory, behavioral insights, and experimental methods can lead to fruitful implementation of superior market designs in practice. This paper was accepted by David Simchi-Levi, Special Issue of Management Science: 65th Anniversary.

scholarly journals The uberisation of housing markets: putting theory into practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Sharam ◽  
Lyndall Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Market Design ◽  
Housing Markets ◽  
Housing Affordability ◽  
Matching Markets ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Digital Disruption ◽  
Development Risk

Purpose Digital disruption offers an innovative opportunity to address housing affordability issues through the use of market design theory and two-sided matching markets. The purpose of this paper is to scope a model for how “uberisation” can revolutionise the traditional apartment delivery model in Australia, leading to improved housing affordability. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses semi-structured interviews with operators of online real estate platforms and deliberative developers to examine how the principles of “uberisation”, that is two-sided matching markets, are driving innovation in the apartment supply process. Findings Findings confirm that real estate internet platforms and deliberative developers innovators are informed by the benefits of aggregating demand to reduce development risk, thus enabling apartments to be provided at a substantially lower price than by traditional methods. Research limitations/implications The number of interviews is small reflecting the limited number of market actors currently engaged in the innovations investigated. Originality/value This research is innovative as it introduces theoretical understandings gained from market design theory and applies those concepts to disrupt the apartment development process.

Policing and Political Violence

2021 ◽  
pp. 002200272110130
Author(s):  
Kristine Eck ◽  
Courtenay R. Conrad ◽  
Charles Crabtree
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Conflict Studies ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Conflict Processes ◽  
State Security ◽  
New Research ◽  
Conflict Research

The police are often key actors in conflict processes, yet there is little research on their role in the production of political violence. Previous research provides us with a limited understanding of the part the police play in preventing or mitigating the onset or escalation of conflict, in patterns of repression and resistance during conflict, and in the durability of peace after conflicts are resolved. By unpacking the role of state security actors and asking how the state assigns tasks among them—as well as the consequences of these decisions—we generate new research paths for scholars of conflict and policing. We review existing research in the field, highlighting recent findings, including those from the articles in this special issue. We conclude by arguing that the fields of policing and conflict research have much to gain from each other and by discussing future directions for policing research in conflict studies.

Four Principles for Cultivating Alternate Cultural Paradigms in Psychology: Summary Reflections on Innovative Contributions

2021 ◽  
pp. 002216782110507
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Gone
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
White Racism ◽  
Research Engagement ◽  
Cultural Paradigms ◽  
Exciting Possibility

The contributors to this special issue have demonstrated the potency and promise of cultivating Alternate Cultural Paradigms (ACPs) in psychology that reflect and express the lived realities of non-White communities in America. Based on my past research engagement with several distinct American Indian and First Nations communities, I offer for consideration four principles for psychologists who seek to further cultivate ACPs: (a) attend independently to culture and power, (b) anchor conceptual abstractions in empirical examples, (c) complicate stock oppositions and essentialisms, and (d) integrate emancipation with application. Adoption of these four principles should assist with the development of robust ACPs that accurately reflect the lived experiences of non-White communities. The promotion of these in psychology represents the exciting possibility for a more just and equitable future in which the injuries of White racism are remedied and all Americans are granted equal opportunities to live and thrive in self-determined fashion.

Introduction to the Special Issue on Exploring the Versatility of Motivational Interviewing

2021 ◽  
pp. JCPSY-D-21-00004
Author(s):  
Yasmine Omar
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Treatment Outcome ◽  
Motivational Interviewing ◽  
Great Risk ◽  
Exposure Therapy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Motivational Interventions ◽  
Campus Policy

Evidence indicates that motivation early in treatment is critical to treatment outcome, and motivational interviewing (MI) has addressed this finding by helping individuals work through ambivalence about change. Not only has it demonstrated improvements in treatment outcome across treatment populations and settings, it has been adapted with success into brief motivational interventions. This special issue explores the use of MI with populations at great risk for ambivalence in therapy, including college students violating campus policy, individuals who have been trafficked, and individuals in exposure therapy. The papers further highlight the versatility of MI-based interventions, as well as their limitations, that may help inform future directions for adapting MI as we move toward digital and web-based interventions.

scholarly journals Tracking the continuous dynamics of numerical processing: A brief review and editorial

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Faulkenberry ◽  
Matthias Witte ◽  
Matthias Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Cognition ◽  
Mental Arithmetic ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Number Processing ◽  
Hand Tracking ◽  
Single Digit ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Numerical Processing ◽  
Computer Mouse

Many recent studies in numerical cognition have moved beyond the use of purely chronometric techniques in favor of methods which track the continuous dynamics of numerical processing. Two examples of such techniques include eye tracking and hand tracking (or computer mouse tracking). To reflect this increased concentration on continuous methods, we have collected a group of 5 articles that utilize these techniques to answer some contemporary questions in numerical cognition. In this editorial, we discuss the two paradigms and provide a brief review of some of the work in numerical cognition that has profited from the use of these techniques. For both methods, we discuss the past research through the frameworks of single digit number processing, multidigit number processing, and mental arithmetic processing. We conclude with a discussion of the papers that have been contributed to this special section and point to some possible future directions for researchers interested in tracking the continuous dynamics of numerical processing.

scholarly journals Digital culture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Acerbi
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Cumulative Culture ◽  
Future Directions

Cultural evolution can provide a useful framework to understand how information is produced, transmitted, and selected in contemporary online, digital, media. The diffusion of digital technologies triggered a radical departure from previous modalities of cultural transmission but, at the same time, general characteristics of human cultural evolution and cognition influence these developments. In this chapter, I will explore some areas where the links between cultural evolution research and digital media seem more promising. As cultural evolution-inspired research on internet phenomena is still in its infancy, these areas represent suggestions and links with works in other disciplines more than reviews of past research in cultural evolution. These include topics such as how to characterise the online effects of social influence and the spread of information; the possibility that digital, online, media could enhance cumulative culture; and the differences between online and offline cultural transmission. In the last section I will consider other possible future directions: the influences of different affordances in different media supporting cultural transmission; the role of producers of cultural traits; and, finally, some considerations on the effects on cultural dynamics of algorithms selecting information.

scholarly journals Enabling Entrepreneurial Choice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajay Agrawal ◽  
Joshua S. Gans ◽  
Scott Stern
Keyword(s):  
Management Science ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Single Test ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Alternative Strategies ◽  
Entrepreneurial Performance ◽  
Multiple Strategies ◽  
65Th Anniversary ◽  
The Cost

Entrepreneurs must choose between alternative strategies for bringing their idea to market. They face uncertainty regarding both the quality of their idea as well as the efficacy of each strategy. Although entrepreneurs can reduce this uncertainty by conducting tests, any single test conflates the signal of the efficacy of the particular strategy and the quality of the idea. Resolving this conflation requires exploring multiple strategies. Consequently, entrepreneurial choice is enhanced by finding ways to lower the cost of testing multiple strategies, receiving guidance as to the types of tests likely to reduce signal conflation, and optimally sequencing tests based on previous beliefs. This creates a role for judgment that may be provided by trusted third parties such as mentors and investors. We hypothesize that institutions that lower the cost of transmitting and aggregating judgment spur entrepreneurial performance. This paper was accepted by David Simchi-Levi, Special Issue of Management Science: 65th Anniversary.

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