Bradford Cornell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1619439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bradford Cornell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bradford |
| FAMILY NAME | Cornell |
| SIGNATURE | CORNELL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Culture, Information, and Screening Discrimination
The authors show that discrimination can occur even when it is common knowledge that underlying group characteristics do not differ and employers do not prefer same-group candidates. When employers can judge job applicants' unknown qualities better when candidates belong to the same group and hire the best prospect from a large pool of applicants, the top applicant is likely to have the same background as the employer. The model has policy, empir…
A Hypothesis Regarding the Origins of Ethnic Discrimination
A Hypothesis Regarding the Origins of Ethnic Discrimination
This article develops an explanation for ethnic discrimination based on what can be called "social decoding." It is hypothesized that humans have developed unique cognitive skills for discerning situations in which others will behave in a self-interested opportunistic fashion. However, these cognitive skills, like the human ability to acquire language, are effectuated by environmental programming. Consequently, people will be able to decode accur…
Treasury Bill Pricing in the Spot and Futures Markets
STUDIES of the term structure of interest rates have a long tradition in the literature of finance and economics. Two prominent examples are Roll (1970) and Nelson (1971).1 More recently, a parallel literature has evolved on the pricing of commodity contracts, spawned by the work of Dusak (1973) and Black (1976). With the advent of futures trading in Treasury bills on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) the direct relationship between the theor…
Culture, Information, and Screening Discrimination
The authors show that discrimination can occur even when it is common knowledge that underlying group characteristics do not differ and employers do not prefer same-group candidates. When employers can judge job applicants' unknown qualities better when candidates belong to the same group and hire the best prospect from a large pool of applicants, the top applicant is likely to have the same background as the employer. The model has policy, empir…
A Hypothesis Regarding the Origins of Ethnic Discrimination
This article develops an explanation for ethnic discrimination based on what can be called "social decoding." It is hypothesized that humans have developed unique cognitive skills for discerning situations in which others will behave in a self-interested opportunistic fashion. However, these cognitive skills, like the human ability to acquire language, are effectuated by environmental programming. Consequently, people will be able to decode accur…
Treasury Bill Pricing in the Spot and Futures Markets
STUDIES of the term structure of interest rates have a long tradition in the literature of finance and economics. Two prominent examples are Roll (1970) and Nelson (1971).1 More recently, a parallel literature has evolved on the pricing of commodity contracts, spawned by the work of Dusak (1973) and Black (1976). With the advent of futures trading in Treasury bills on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) the direct relationship between the theor…
A Hypothesis Regarding the Origins of Ethnic Discrimination
A Hypothesis Regarding the Origins of Ethnic Discrimination
This article develops an explanation for ethnic discrimination based on what can be called "social decoding." It is hypothesized that humans have developed unique cognitive skills for discerning situations in which others will behave in a self-interested opportunistic fashion. However, these cognitive skills, like the human ability to acquire language, are effectuated by environmental programming. Consequently, people will be able to decode accur…
Culture, Information, and Screening Discrimination
The authors show that discrimination can occur even when it is common knowledge that underlying group characteristics do not differ and employers do not prefer same-group candidates. When employers can judge job applicants' unknown qualities better when candidates belong to the same group and hire the best prospect from a large pool of applicants, the top applicant is likely to have the same background as the employer. The model has policy, empir…
Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Ethnic discrimination (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Actuarial science (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works)