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- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda Abstract In their seminal 1985 paper, Katz and Shapiro study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided platforms and direct network effects. We consider systems compatibility when competing platforms are two-sided and there are View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5
is one that captures all direct and indirect connections between components (i.e., it captures the potential for changes to propagate via all possible paths between components). Our work represents an important step in making the concept...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5
access to more candidates, initially positive indirect network effects decrease in strength, reach their limit, and eventually turn negative. The limit to network effects is different for different types of agents. For agents with low...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 24
and in contrast, such indirect costs appear relatively fixed in the face of sales declines in this industry. We discuss potential sources of these cost-structure patterns and their implications for cost management efforts as asset...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 9
characterization of indirect dominance, we investigate von Neumann-Morgenstern farsightedly stable sets. We show that a singleton is von Neumann-Morgenstern farsightedly stable if and only if the matching is stable (Theorem 1). We also...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
emphasize the value of being prudent with money. Additional analysis supports our predicted indirect effect of religiosity on spending through frugality. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54362 2018 The New...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
the competition among agents on the same side of the market. An agent who sees fewer candidates knows that these candidates also see fewer potential matches, and so are more likely to accept the match. As agents on both sides have access to more candidates, initially...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007
developing Chinese real estate market and introduces issues concerning the search and property acquisition that are specific to Beijing. Also deals with the direct and indirect cost involved in home acquisition, and compares these costs...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
that suggest that the Act has produced financial reporting benefits. While the direct costs of the Act were substantial and fell disproportionately on smaller companies, costs have fallen over time and in response to changes in its implementation. Research about View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
for offsetting equity issuances by firms. In particular, we explain the importance of accounting for indirect equity issuances, which constitute the majority of total equity issuances in public firms. In addition, S&P 500 firms are...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
are harder to replace than those with lower coupling. The measures of coupling that best explain differences in IT agility include all indirect dependencies between software applications (i.e., they include coupling and dependency...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
estimate their direct and indirect effects on real activity. Credit supply shocks have sizable direct and downstream propagation effects on investment and output throughout the period but no significant impact on employment during the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
rely on indirect governance through regulated competition among political as well as economic actors in structures that in many ways parallel the competition found in organized sports. Inevitably these two systems develop as well as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
hand. You cannot resolve design issues—such as whether to adopt a direct or an indirect channel or, if indirect, how many levels are appropriate—without a sense of how distribution policies and practices are translated. Similarly, you...
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- 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008
(forthcoming) Abstract In large U.S. corporations, founding families are the only blockholders whose control rights on average exceed their cash flow rights. We analyze how they achieve this wedge, and at what cost. Indirect ownership...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11
Demographic Changes By: Bardhan, Pranab, Michael Luca, Dilip Mookherjee, and Francisco Pino Abstract—This paper studies how land reform and population growth affect land inequality and landlessness, focusing particularly on indirect...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17
two-sided platforms and indirect network effects to develop an explanation why markets with two-sided platforms are often characterized by incompatibility with one dominant player who may subsidize access to one side of the market. We...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
or she provides through direct payments, it is also critical to incorporate the indirect value generated through the customer’s social influence. In this note we develop a framework for measuring and quantifying the social value that a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14
namely its shift from a supplier and builder of affordable housing to an approach that focuses on demand-side solutions and indirect subsidies to private developers. In addition to a shift from supply-based to demand-based solutions,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9
Effects, and Investment Strategy Willy ShihHarvard Business School Note 611-082 This technical note discusses scale economies and direct and indirect network effects in the context of building better business models. Some of the great...
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Sean Silverthorne