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Call for Papers—Management Science Virtual Special Issue on Digital Finance
- Lin William Cong
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853;
, - Kay Giesecke
Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305;
, - Cami Kuhnen
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
Management Science, Volume 70, Issue 8•August 2024, pp Vi-Vii • https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2024.call.v70.n8- 0Citation
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Small and Medium Enterprises Amidst the Pandemic and Reopening: Digital Edge and Transformation
- Lin William Cong
SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853;
National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138;
, - Xiaohan Yang
Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong;
, - Xiaobo Zhang
Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
Development Strategies and Governance Unit, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, District of Columbia 20005
Management Science, Volume 70, Issue 7•July 2024, pp 4564-4582 • https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.02424Using administrative universal business registration data as well as primary offline and online surveys of small businesses (including unregistered self-employments) in China, we examine (i) whether digitization helps small and medium enterprises (SMEs) ...
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Scaling Smart Contracts via Layer-2 Technologies: Some Empirical Evidence
- Lin William Cong
Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853;
, - Xiang Hui
Olin School of Business, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130;
, - Catherine Tucker
Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142;
, - Luofeng Zhou
Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, New York 10012
Management Science, Volume 69, Issue 12•December 2023, pp 7306-7316 • https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.00281Blockchain-based smart contracts can potentially replace certain traditional contracts through decentralized enforcement and reduced transaction costs. However, scalability is a key bottleneck hindering their broader application and adoption, often ...
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Advances in Blockchain and Crypto Economics
- Bruno Biais
HEC Paris, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France;
, - Agostino Capponi
Columbia University, New York, New York 10027;
, - Lin William Cong
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850;
National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138;
, - Vishal Gaur
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850;
, - Kay Giesecke
Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
Management Science, Volume 69, Issue 11•November 2023, pp 6417-6426 • https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.intro.v69.n11Over the past decade, blockchains and cryptocurrencies have taken a central stage in financial technology (FinTech) innovation. In 2020–2021, as the academic finance and management community began actively investigating this domain, we issued a call for ...
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Crypto Wash Trading
- Lin William Cong
SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853;
National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138;
, - Xi Li
ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6BA, United Kingdom;
, - Ke Tang
Institute of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100190, China;
Yanqi Lake Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Beijing 101408, China;
, - Yang Yang
School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TW, United Kingdom
Management Science, Volume 69, Issue 11•November 2023, pp 6427-6454 • https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2021.02709We present the first systematic approach to detect fake transactions on cryptocurrency exchanges by exploiting robust statistical and behavioral regularities associated with authentic trading. Our sample consists of 29 centralized exchanges, among which ...
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Policy Uncertainty and Innovation: Evidence from Initial Public Offering Interventions in China
- Lin William Cong
Finance Group, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853;
, - Sabrina T. Howell
Finance Department, New York University Stern School of Business, New York, New York 10012;
National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Management Science, Volume 67, Issue 11•November 2021, pp 7238-7261 • https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2020.3807Public equity is an important source of risk capital, especially in China. The Chinese government has occasionally suspended IPOs, exposing firms already approved to IPO to indeterminate listing delays. The temporary bar on going public increases ...
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Knowledge Accumulation, Privacy, and Growth in a Data Economy
- Lin William Cong
SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853;
, - Danxia Xie
Institute of Economics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;
, - Longtian Zhang
Institute of Economics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;
Management Science, Volume 67, Issue 10•October 2021, pp 6480-6492 • https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2021.3986We build an endogenous growth model with consumer-generated data as a new key factor for knowledge accumulation. Consumers balance between providing data for profit and potential privacy infringement. Intermediate good producers use data to innovate and ...
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Call for Papers—Management Science Special Issue on Blockchains and Crypto Economics
- Bruno Biais
Area of Finance, HEC Paris, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France;
, - Agostino Capponi
Department of Industrial Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027;
, - Lin William Cong
SC Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853;
, - Vishal Gaur
SC Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853;
, - Kay Giesecke
Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
Management Science, Volume 67, Issue 1•January 2021, pp 6-7 • https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2020.3888- 2Citation
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Timing of Auctions of Real Options
- Lin William Cong
Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
Management Science, Volume 66, Issue 9•September 2020, pp 3956-3976 • https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2019.3374This paper endogenizes auction timing and initiation in auctions of real options. Because bidders have information rent, a seller faces a “virtual strike price” higher than the actual exercise cost. The seller inefficiently delays the auction to encourage ...
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Blockchain Architecture for Auditing Automation and Trust Building in Public Markets
- Sean Cao
Business, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia United States
, - Lin William Cong
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York United States
, - Meng Han
Computing and Software Engineering, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia United States
, - Qixuan Hou
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia United States
, - Baozhong Yang
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia United States
Business transactions by public firms must be reported, verified, and audited periodically, which is labor intensive and time consuming. To streamline this procedure, we have designed Future Auditing Blockchain to automate the reporting and auditing ...
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Please see the following 2007 Turing Award winners' profiles as examples: - History: Disambiguation of author names is of course required for precise identification of all the works, and only those works, by a unique individual. Of equal importance to ACM, author name normalization is also one critical prerequisite to building accurate citation and download statistics. For the past several years, ACM has worked to normalize author names, expand reference capture, and gather detailed usage statistics, all intended to provide the community with a robust set of publication metrics. The Author Profile Pages reveal the first result of these efforts.
- Normalization: ACM uses normalization algorithms to weigh several types of evidence for merging and splitting names.
These include:- co-authors: if we have two names and cannot disambiguate them based on name alone, then we see if they have a co-author in common. If so, this weighs towards the two names being the same person.
- affiliations: names in common with same affiliation weighs toward the two names being the same person.
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- Bibliometrics: In 1926, Alfred Lotka formulated his power law (known as Lotka's Law) describing the frequency of publication by authors in a given field. According to this bibliometric law of scientific productivity, only a very small percentage (~6%) of authors in a field will produce more than 10 articles while the majority (perhaps 60%) will have but a single article published. With ACM's first cut at author name normalization in place, the distribution of our authors with 1, 2, 3..n publications does not match Lotka's Law precisely, but neither is the distribution curve far off. For a definition of ACM's first set of publication statistics, see Bibliometrics
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The initial release of the Author Edit Screen is open to anyone in the community with an ACM account, but it is limited to personal information. An author's photograph, a Home Page URL, and an email may be added, deleted or edited. Changes are reviewed before they are made available on the live site.
ACM will expand this edit facility to accommodate more types of data and facilitate ease of community participation with appropriate safeguards. In particular, authors or members of the community will be able to indicate works in their profile that do not belong there and merge others that do belong but are currently missing.
A direct search interface for Author Profiles will be built.
An institutional view of works emerging from their faculty and researchers will be provided along with a relevant set of metrics.
It is possible, too, that the Author Profile page may evolve to allow interested authors to upload unpublished professional materials to an area available for search and free educational use, but distinct from the ACM Digital Library proper. It is hard to predict what shape such an area for user-generated content may take, but it carries interesting potential for input from the community.
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It is ACM's intention to make the derivation of any publication statistics it generates clear to the user.
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- Publication Count = all works of any genre within the universe of ACM's bibliographic database of computing literature of which this person was an author. Works where the person has role as editor, advisor, chair, etc. are listed on the page but are not part of the Publication Count.
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- Available for download = the total number of works by this author whose full texts may be downloaded from an ACM full-text article server. Downloads from external full-text sources linked to from within the ACM bibliographic space are not counted as 'available for download'.
- Average downloads per article = The total number of cumulative downloads divided by the number of articles (including multimedia objects) available for download from ACM's servers.
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ACM Author-Izer is a unique service that enables ACM authors to generate and post links on both their homepage and institutional repository for visitors to download the definitive version of their articles from the ACM Digital Library at no charge.
Downloads from these sites are captured in official ACM statistics, improving the accuracy of usage and impact measurements. Consistently linking to definitive version of ACM articles should reduce user confusion over article versioning.
ACM Author-Izer also extends ACM’s reputation as an innovative “Green Path” publisher, making ACM one of the first publishers of scholarly works to offer this model to its authors.
To access ACM Author-Izer, authors need to establish a free ACM web account. Should authors change institutions or sites, they can utilize the new ACM service to disable old links and re-authorize new links for free downloads from a different site.
How ACM Author-Izer Works
Authors may post ACM Author-Izer links in their own bibliographies maintained on their website and their own institution’s repository. The links take visitors to your page directly to the definitive version of individual articles inside the ACM Digital Library to download these articles for free.
The Service can be applied to all the articles you have ever published with ACM.
Depending on your previous activities within the ACM DL, you may need to take up to three steps to use ACM Author-Izer.
For authors who do not have a free ACM Web Account:
- Go to the ACM DL http://dl.acm.org/ and click SIGN UP. Once your account is established, proceed to next step.
For authors who have an ACM web account, but have not edited their ACM Author Profile page:
- Sign in to your ACM web account and go to your Author Profile page. Click "Add personal information" and add photograph, homepage address, etc. Click ADD AUTHOR INFORMATION to submit change. Once you receive email notification that your changes were accepted, you may utilize ACM Author-izer.
For authors who have an account and have already edited their Profile Page:
- Sign in to your ACM web account, go to your Author Profile page in the Digital Library, look for the ACM Author-izer link below each ACM published article, and begin the authorization process. If you have published many ACM articles, you may find a batch Authorization process useful. It is labeled: "Export as: ACM Author-Izer Service"
ACM Author-Izer also provides code snippets for authors to display download and citation statistics for each “authorized” article on their personal pages. Downloads from these pages are captured in official ACM statistics, improving the accuracy of usage and impact measurements. Consistently linking to the definitive version of ACM articles should reduce user confusion over article versioning.
Note: You still retain the right to post your author-prepared preprint versions on your home pages and in your institutional repositories with DOI pointers to the definitive version permanently maintained in the ACM Digital Library. But any download of your preprint versions will not be counted in ACM usage statistics. If you use these AUTHOR-IZER links instead, usage by visitors to your page will be recorded in the ACM Digital Library and displayed on your page.
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- Q. What is ACM Author-Izer?
A. ACM Author-Izer is a unique, link-based, self-archiving service that enables ACM authors to generate and post links on either their home page or institutional repository for visitors to download the definitive version of their articles for free.
- Q. What articles are eligible for ACM Author-Izer?
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- Q. Are there any restrictions on authors to use this service?
- A. No. An author does not need to subscribe to the ACM Digital Library nor even be a member of ACM.
- Q. What are the requirements to use this service?
- A. To access ACM Author-Izer, authors need to have a free ACM web account, must have an ACM Author Profile page in the Digital Library, and must take ownership of their Author Profile page.
- Q. What is an ACM Author Profile Page?
- A. The Author Profile Page initially collects all the professional information known about authors from the publications record as known by the ACM Digital Library. The Author Profile Page supplies a quick snapshot of an author's contribution to the field and some rudimentary measures of influence upon it. Over time, the contents of the Author Profile page may expand at the direction of the community. Please visit the ACM Author Profile documentation page for more background information on these pages.
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- Create a free ACM Web Account
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- Find your Author Profile Page by searching the ACM Digital Library for your name
- Find the result you authored (where your author name is a clickable link)
- Click on your name to go to the Author Profile Page
- Click the "Add Personal Information" link on the Author Profile Page
- Wait for ACM review and approval; generally less than 24 hours
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- Q. What happens if an author provides a URL that redirects to the author’s personal bibliography page?
- A. The service will not provide a free download from the ACM Digital Library. Instead the person who uses that link will simply go to the Citation Page for that article in the ACM Digital Library where the article may be accessed under the usual subscription rules.
However, if the author provides the target page URL, any link that redirects to that target page will enable a free download from the Service.
- Q. What happens if the author’s bibliography lives on a page with several aliases?
- A. Only one alias will work, whichever one is registered as the page containing the author’s bibliography. ACM has no technical solution to this problem at this time.
- Q. Why should authors use ACM Author-Izer?
- A. ACM Author-Izer lets visitors to authors’ personal home pages download articles for no charge from the ACM Digital Library. It allows authors to dynamically display real-time download and citation statistics for each “authorized” article on their personal site.
- Q. Does ACM Author-Izer provide benefits for authors?
- A. Downloads of definitive articles via Author-Izer links on the authors’ personal web page are captured in official ACM statistics to more accurately reflect usage and impact measurements.
Authors who do not use ACM Author-Izer links will not have downloads from their local, personal bibliographies counted. They do, however, retain the existing right to post author-prepared preprint versions on their home pages or institutional repositories with DOI pointers to the definitive version permanently maintained in the ACM Digital Library.
- Q. How does ACM Author-Izer benefit the computing community?
- A. ACM Author-Izer expands the visibility and dissemination of the definitive version of ACM articles. It is based on ACM’s strong belief that the computing community should have the widest possible access to the definitive versions of scholarly literature. By linking authors’ personal bibliography with the ACM Digital Library, user confusion over article versioning should be reduced over time.
In making ACM Author-Izer a free service to both authors and visitors to their websites, ACM is emphasizing its continuing commitment to the interests of its authors and to the computing community in ways that are consistent with its existing subscription-based access model.
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- Posting rights that ensure free access to their work outside the ACM Digital Library and print publications
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