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  • 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
  • Research Summary

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Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also... View Details
  • 02 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

Brown University, detail their findings in the working paper Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency. When employees talk about their pay A labor economist, Cullen noticed while conducting research in 2014 that workers with comparable... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 08 Sep 2008
  • HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 08 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

functions under affine cost functions. We first characterize the equilibrium behavior of this class of models in the case where each product in the market is sold by a separate, independent firm, and customers share a common income level.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 29, 2006

to wonder whether having shed much of her femininity will compromise her effectiveness as a leader. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406096   PublicationsFinding Lost Profits: An View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 14

  Working PapersIndustry Equilibrium with Open Source and Proprietary Firms Authors:Gastón Llanes and Ramiro de Elejalde Abstract We present a model of industry equilibrium to study the coexistence of Open... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

marketplaces. The way marketplaces and intermediaries rank offers from sellers or service-providers can be thought of as an incentive system. Economists are well positioned to analyze issues such as short-term user behavior and the View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education
  • 02 Oct 2000
  • What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

equilibrium of poverty." In Galbraith's view, there is an answer: migration from poor to rich countries, with benefits for both. In the coming months, be prepared for a reopening of a discussion of these issues. It will be led by a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 15 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 15

situations are common, but they are difficult to analyze because of the plethora of justifiable equilibrium outcomes that result. To address this, researchers employ belief refinements, which pare the set of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

Kominers, and Ross Rheingans-Yoo Abstract—This paper develops a class of equilibrium-independent predictions of competitive equilibrium with indivisibilities. Specifically, we prove an analogue of the “Lone Wolf Theorem” of classical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2015
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September 15, 2015

same time, the hedge fund return series is not reliably distinguishable from the returns of mechanical S&P 500 put-writing strategies. We show that the high excess returns to hedge funds and put-writing are consistent with an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

Correlated equilibrium (Aumann, 1974) generalizes Nash equilibrium to allow correlation devices. Aumann showed an example of a game, and of a correlated equilibrium in this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 11

markets are closer (a better fit) to one firm than to the other, and that certain knowledge is more transferable across markets (less market specific). We then solve the model computationally and identify three equilibrium... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4

accumulation of patents generates an increasing number of claims on sequential innovation. We study the equilibrium innovation activity under three regimes: patents, no-patents, and patent pools. Patent pools increase the probability of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

that an individual casts may deviate substantially from that under pure, rational QV equilibrium play. Because turnout itself is driven by other factors, the same determinants may influence how voters who do turn out choose the quantity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008

agree with the voter. Substantial equilibrium turnout emerges with nontrivial voting costs and modest altruism. The model can explain higher turnout in close elections as well as votes for third-party candidates with no prospect of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Oct 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

equilibrium of poverty.” (As a side note, one problem with Galbraith’s argument is that “labor exports” often involve people with the best education and skills, producing a brain drain. The result could well be greater inequality among... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 25 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 25

in the process of making high profits. Even with few truly altruistic firms, an equilibrium may emerge where all firms pretend to be kind and refrain from charging "abusive" prices to their customers. Our main result is that, as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11

failure tolerance has an equilibrium price—in terms of an investor's required share of equity—that increases in the level of radical innovation. Financiers with investment strategies that tolerate early failure will endogenously choose to... View Details

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