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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
  • 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
  • 08 May 2007
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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
  • 02 May 2008
  • What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

the success of currencies in markets in which they invest? Or, alternatively, will the situation take care of itself as a new equilibrium reoccurs when those managing huge pools of money and gigantic corporations succumb to inefficiencies... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field

Yale's Barry J. Nalebuff), this theory is also the basis of the MBA elective Changing the Game that he currently teaches. A game theorist, Professor Elon Kohlberg is studying the foundations of the equilibrium concept in game theory,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

ad platform, and advertiser entry strategies are derived using symmetric Bayes-Nash equilibrium that lead to the VCG outcome of the ad auctions. Consistent with our model of participation costs, we find empirical evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2018
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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
  • 17 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

in tastes. Our framework allows us to characterize matching equilibrium in a flexible way that includes as special cases the classic fully- and non-transferable utility models, collective models, and settings with taxes on transfers,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Feb 2017
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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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 22 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

rely on technology to the extent there is labor mobility across sectors. A hairdresser in the United States, for example, makes more money than a hairdresser in China, and that is due in large part to the wage equilibrium that occurs... View Details
Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer
  • 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
  • 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
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

platform-based products (applications) and users of such products. We show that the unique equilibrium under platform compatibility leads to higher profits than the symmetric equilibrium under... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5

ability of a firm to transfer its capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how these strategies emerge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne