Vicente Cuñat studies the effect of anti-takeover provisions on: (a) shareholder value, (b) the likelihood that the firm is acquired, and (c) the price that the firm is sold for conditional on the acquisition taking place.

Mounu Prem studies how elected politicians give public sector jobs to their political supporters, which decreases the quality of public sector employees.

Morten Bennedsen uses CEO hospitalisation events to estimate the effect of CEO absences on firm profitability.

David McKenzie discusses the findings from a field experiment allocating individual and group-based consulting to firms in Colombia.

Isabela Manelici estimates the effects of becoming the supplier of a multinational on the productivity of a firm.

Claudia Robles-Garcia argues that intermediaries (brokers) in mortgage markets may distort customer choices but have the benefit of allowing smaller banks to reach consumers, thus increasing upstream competition.

Florian Englmaier argues that providing financial incentives to teams engaged in non-routine analytical tasks increases productivity.

Zoe Cullen discusses how socialisation between managers and their subordinates affects promotion decisions. Because most managers are men, socialisation causes differential promotion likelihoods for men and women, thus contributing to the gender gap.

Raffaella Sadun discusses how the availability of new data on emails and meetings allows researchers to create measures of intra-firm communication. She studies how the intensity of communication evolves over time following a change of CEO.

Barbara Biasi studies what happened to the gender wage gap when the Wisconsin public school system eliminated collective bargaining, and teachers had to negotiate their salaries. A gender gap immediately appeared, driven by teachers who had to negotiate with male superintendents.