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  • 1996
  • Article

Limits on Interest Rate Rules in the IS Model

By: William R. Kerr and Robert G. King
There has been a substantial amount of research on interest rate rules. This literature finds that the feasibility and desirability of interest rate rules depends on the structure of the model used to approximate macroeconomic reality. We employ a series of... View Details
Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Macroeconomics; Interest Rates; Price; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Expectations
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  • 2013
  • Comment

Fairness and Redistribution: Comment

By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
In an influential paper, Alesina and Angeletos (2005)—henceforth, AA—argued that a preference for fairness could lead two identical societies to choose different economic systems. In particular, two equilibria might arise: one with low taxes and a belief that the... View Details
Keywords: Taxes; Beliefs; Economic Systems; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Taxation
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  • 06 Mar 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China

Keywords: by Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger & Se Yan; Education
  • 2003
  • Book

The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World

By: Bhaskar Chakravorti

Innovation's encounter with the market results in a game of both high risk and high stakes. Often its outcome defies common sense: Superior new products flop, unlikely ideas become runaway hits, and—despite rapid technological advances and intense... View Details

Keywords: Game Theory; Network Effects; Innovation and Invention; Product Marketing; Economics
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  • 12 Sep 2024
  • HBS Seminar

Jose Vasquez, London School of Economics

  • Web

Strategy - Faculty & Research

short-term membership, they do not discriminate between new and old customers with their unit price but only with their membership fees. Overall, the number of consumers poached is smaller with long-term memberships, but the equilibrium... View Details
  • 27 Feb 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

In Strange Company: The Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms

Keywords: by Mariana Pargendler, Aldo Musacchio & Sergio G. Lazzarini; Banking; Financial Services
  • Web

Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

gender gaps. We develop a new model of salary negotiations, incorporating risk and information frictions, that can better explain our experimental and non-experimental findings. The model's equilibrium analysis indicates that policies... View Details
  • March–April 2013
  • Article

Vaporware, Suddenware and Trueware: New Product Preannouncements under Market Uncertainty

By: Elie Ofek and Ozge Turut
A firm may want to preannounce its plans to develop a new product in order to stimulate future demand. But given that such communications can affect rivals' incentives to develop the same new product, a firm may decide to preannounce untruthfully in order to deter... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Announcements; Competition; Product Launch; Product Development
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  • 06 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

and introspection because many people get into leadership roles in response to their ego needs. It enables them to transition from seeking external gratification to finding internal satisfaction by making meaningful contributions through their leadership. Maintaining... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

reality is driven by a fundamental failure in consumer inferences when sellers withhold information. Using a series of laboratory experiments, we implement a simple disclosure game in which senders can verifiably report quality to receivers. We find that senders... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Investment Incentives in Proprietary and Open-Source Two-Sided Platforms

Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Gastón Llanes
  • Web

Finance - Faculty & Research

short-term membership, they do not discriminate between new and old customers with their unit price but only with their membership fees. Overall, the number of consumers poached is smaller with long-term memberships, but the equilibrium... View Details
  • 02 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'

an idiot. It’s a lie because your brain is structured to lie to you. There is a process called homeostasis, or the tendency toward equilibrium. You can’t stay out of equilibrium for long, but you’re going to try to get back out of it... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Morrell
  • Web

Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

competitors’ high-cost capacities to the leader cuts prices 10%, while larger transfers raise them, revealing how capacity and efficiency influence market power. Keywords: Diversified Production Technologies ; Concentration Levels ; Market Power ; Supply Function View Details
  • Web

Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

surge in innovation and exports in REE-intensive downstream sectors outside of China. To rationalize these findings and quantify the global impact of the adverse REE supply shock, we develop a quantitative general equilibrium model of... View Details
  • Web

Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

frictions, that can better explain our experimental and non-experimental findings. The model's equilibrium analysis indicates that policies encouraging negotiation can enhance both welfare and equity. Keywords: Compensation and Benefits ;... View Details
  • Research Summary

Why Do Consumers Contribute to Connected Goods? A Dynamic Game of Competition and Cooperation in Social Networks

Social network platforms and media rely on the voluntary contributions of individual users to stay relevant. Consumers (users) contribute content such as photographs, videos, tweets etc.: these are available to any of their friends or peers, but not... View Details

  • 16 Jun 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Does Diversification Create Value in the Presence of External Financing Constraints? Evidence from the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis

Keywords: by Venkat Kuppuswamy & Belén Villalonga
  • Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

result, with different payoff risk profiles for their depositors and investors, respectively. The authors evaluate the equilibrium predictions of their model first in theory and then through empirical evidence. See Samuel’s other research... View Details