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  • 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
  • 25 Jul 2017
  • First Look

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
  • 17 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 17

on consumers knowing that firms know this. This creates a distinction between strategies of targeting and personalization. Third, the effectiveness of targeting in equilibrium may (far) exceed the information contained directly in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

New Releases

experts have developed over the past 25 years. Jensen and his contributing authors reconceptualize organizations as equilibrium systems that exist in a larger system of markets - such as financial, product, labor, and materials markets.... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

The People’s Pods

It’s become cliché. You go to a holiday party or a cocktail party, and people are like, “Oh, you know, I’m starting a podcast.” But that does make me worry, from a supply-and-demand and an advertiser equilibrium perspective. Are there... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

Unlike the VCG mechanism, GSP generally does not have an equilibrium in dominant strategies, and truth-telling is not an equilibrium of GSP. To analyze the properties of GSP, we describe the generalized... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

2 (spring 1965): 13-31. * Available at another Harvard University Library, check HOLLIS . The Formula Black, Fischer, and Myron S. Scholes. "Capital Market Equilibrium and the Pricing of Corporate Liabilities." Financial Note No. 16C... View Details
  • 25 Jul 2019
  • Blog Post

Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID

commons where the equilibrium is not a stable one, and incentives to deviate are high for individual actors (profitability strikes again!). Consequently, a lot of the game theory we studied actually comes into action there. Moreover, the... View Details
  • 30 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

attention of claimants and respondents. The model allows us to interpret our empirical facts in equilibrium and to quantify the effects of changes to the current arbitrator selection process on consumer outcomes. Competition between... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

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
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

methodological innovations to the marketing literature. First, we correct for endogeneity with regard to both store entry and mall sales to identify the causal effect of store entry on mall sales. Second, we address multiple equilibria by estimating View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

result of equilibrium product differentiation when some facts are nonverifiable. We use the model to address several questions, including the impact of competition on bias, the incentives to report unpopular news, and the impact of owner... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

from NBER Working Paper No. 6011, April 1997, Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 98-024, 1997) Abstract We model the equilibrium price and quantity of risk transfer between firms and financial intermediaries. Value-maximizing firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2022

electric energy of attendees wanting to make practical progress on the climate crisis. In terms of speakers, I was particularly excited to hear from both early stage entrepreneurs and investors in the climate-tech space such as Lowercarbon Capital, View Details
  • 18 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

get less. Negotiating these deals is like squeezing a balloon—if you squeeze it in one place, it pops out somewhere else. Finding an equilibrium in the midst of this kind of multiparty negotiation is a difficult task." One way to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4

total consumer traffic for higher revenues derived by exposing consumers to unsolicited products (e.g., advertising). We show that competition between platforms leads to lower equilibrium levels of search diversion relative to a monopoly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

their funds on demand even if consumption takes place later. Capitalized institutions serving overoptimistic depositors emerge in equilibrium even if depositors and bank owners have identical preferences and investment opportunities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?

wherewithal for a down payment. But as rents go up in the face of increased demand, the difference between renting and owning will decrease. When that equilibrium happens, I suspect there will be a return to ownership as the preferred... View Details
Keywords: Construction; Real Estate
  • 13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13

firm's investment opportunities. We apply Perfect Bayesian equilibrium solution concepts and confirm that over a range of reasonable model parameters the firm's investment decision does not maximize expected profits. Surprisingly, this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne