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  • February 2013
  • Article

Commercial Property Rent Dynamics in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: An Examination of Office, Industrial, Flex and Retail Space

By: Maria Ibanez and Anthony Pennington-Cross
This paper is concerned with the market rental rate for space offered by commercial property and how that rental rate evolves over time. Rental rates reflect the value of the services provided by the property and can have a significant impact on the ability of its... View Details
Keywords: Commercial Real Estate; Rent Dynamics; Office Property; Flex Property; Retail Property; Industrial Property; Property; Real Estate Industry; United States
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How Market Power Affects Dynamic Pricing: Evidence from Inventory Fluctuations at Car Dealerships

By: Ayelet Israeli, Fiona Scott-Morton, Jorge Silva-Risso and Florian Zettelmeyer
This paper investigates empirically the effect of market power on dynamic pricing in the presence of inventories. Our setting is the auto retail industry; we analyze how automotive dealerships adjust prices to inventory levels under varying degrees of market power. We... View Details
Keywords: Dynamic Pricing; Market Power; Pricing; Price Discrimination; Inventory Production; Marketing; Price; Competitive Strategy; Auto Industry; Retail Industry
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  • February 2018
  • Background Note

Patent Trolling

By: Lauren H. Cohen, Umit G. Gurun, Scott Duke Kominers and George Hou
The U.S. Intellectual Property (IP) Ecosystem is one of the most robust and dynamic in the world—and has been for centuries. The bedrock of this system is the "patent," a legal document that allows its holder exclusive commercialization rights of a part of the "idea... View Details
Keywords: Intellectual Property; Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; United States
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  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

four months. We predict and find that should DVDs (e.g., documentaries) are held significantly longer than want DVDs (e.g., action films) within-customer. Similarly, we also predict and find that people are more likely to rent DVDs in one... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16

capture rents outside of the marketplace. We synthesize this body of research under the umbrella term institutional strategies, which we define as the comprehensive set of plans and actions directed at strategically leveraging and shaping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

consuming their economic rents in this manner. Enlightened Stakeholder Theory Enlightened stakeholder theory is easy to explain. It can take advantage of most that stakeholder theorists offer in the way of processes and audits to measure... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • 16 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision

"should" items when the impact will be felt in the future. They also talk about their related research on DVD rentals—should I rent the good-for-me documentary An Inconvenient Truth or the entertaining Pirates of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Retail; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

Andrei Hagiu is on the vanguard of a new field of business research that explores the dynamics of multi-sided markets. Although these markets have been around a long time, they have not really been recognized as entities unique from other... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

noon; moments later hedge funds are buying or selling. They've added a new dynamic to the market that is reflected in the enormously increased volume of stock transactions and in the very greatly shortened period of time for which shares... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 14 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

payments to support clients’ liquidity; helped salons apply to crisis relief funding such as unemployment support and rent postponement; hired consultants to create guidelines for safety measures in the salons, and shared them with each... View Details
Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
  • 06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008

  Working PapersHighbrow Films Gather Dust: A Study of Dynamic Inconsistency and Online DVD Rentals Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

2018 Atlas of Moral Psychology In Search of Moral Equilibrium: Person, Situation, and Their Interplay in Behavioral Ethics By: Lee, Julia J., and F. Gino Abstract—This comprehensive and cutting-edge volume maps out the terrain of moral psychology, a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007

between modularity and evolution has had limited success. Three major challenges persist: first, it is difficult to measure modularity in a robust and repeatable fashion; second, modularity is a property of individual components, not systems as a whole, hence we must... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

they're willing to help even when they are busy, and they're unlikely to haggle about return favors. The same dynamic applies to external relationships with longtime customers, vendors, and clients. Negotiating successfully in a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 26 Feb 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels

Airbnb for hosts: They can respond quickly to market conditions, keeping their homes for private use when prices are low and hosting travelers only when the demand for rooms—and the payoff from renting them—is highest. "As a host,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Travel
  • 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

conversely, the flaunting of a busy life and a dearth of leisure time. In addition, people’s relative interest in buying luxury experiences versus luxury products is increasing. Technology has introduced new business models, such as collaborative consumption in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016

abundance is allowing our species to develop, distribute, and profit from innovation in nearly every corner of civilization. Now key elements of the modern world such as the speed and connectedness of digital communication, the dynamic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

organization. And finally they embrace inconsistency, allowing themselves the latitude to pursue multiple and often conflicting agendas. Read this article: http://hbr.org/2011/06/the-ambidextrous-ceo/ar/1   Working PapersBetter-reply View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

  Publications August 2013 Palgrave Macmillan The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World By: Reinert, Sophus A., and Pernille Røge, eds. Abstract—This volume recasts our understanding of the practical and theoretical foundations and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

have a large impact on the dynamics of corporate investment and growth. Investment is "locked in" in profitable firms when payout is heavily taxed. Thus, apart from any level effects, payout taxes change the allocation of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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