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  • 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

research. Learning and Equilibrium as Useful Approximations: Accuracy of Prediction on Randomly Selected Constant Sum Games Authors:Ido Erev, Alvin E. Roth, R. Slonim, and Greg Barron Periodical:Economic Theory (forthcoming). Special... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

ventures. We introduce a formal model of voting where agents face costly tacit information to improve their decision quality. Equilibrium outcomes suggest a theoretical tension for group decision-making between the benefits of information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

incentive to consume more applications than the social optimum to better satisfy their preference for variety); (2) an equilibrium selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria); and (3) a coordination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

Authors:Eric J. Van den Steen Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a theory of the firm in which a firm's centralized asset ownership and low-powered incentives give the manager, as an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607014 Asset Allocation I Harvard Business School Note 208-086 The goal of these simulations is to understand the mathematics of mean-variance optimization and the equilibrium... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

findings of behavioral scientists and experimental economists. Further, this approach does not generally assume that all the elements of the "game" are common knowledge. It tends to de-emphasize the application of game-theoretic solution concepts or efforts... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Feb 2014
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Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

competitive move would probably trigger retaliation from the attacked retailer, who would subsequently try to steal the focal retailer's loyal shoppers. It can easily be seen that such a strategy would punish all players, except the shopper. The condition for a... View Details
Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

providing an additional source of revenue, but reduces consumer demand for the service. We characterize equilibrium information provision, disclosure levels, and prices and show that competition with privacy has several effects on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

this increases the utility they derive from the service, but they incur disutility from information disclosure. This, in turn, benefits the firm providing an additional source of revenue but reduces consumer demand for the service. We characterize View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2007
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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
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998) in that its assumptions ensure that there is an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Apr 2013
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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
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model with Monopsony Author: Julio J. Rotemberg Publication: Supplement. Journal of Monetary Economics 55 (October 2008): 97-110 Abstract A monopsony model with a symmetric equilibrium is developed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

of strategy as “the smallest set of choices to optimally guide (or force) other choices.” The paper shows that this definition coincides with the equilibrium outcome of a “strategy formulation game,” in which such strategy endogenously... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

concerns. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-047.pdf   PublicationsOptimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz Publication:American... 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
  • 12 Jun 2006
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The Promise of Channel Stewardship

day-to-day, tactical flavor. It may even end up doing a heroic job of achieving sales targets in a changing environment without making a dent in the channel structure. The problem is that even when an industry reaches a new equilibrium as... View Details
Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products
  • 08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8

Cournot-style competition. Meanwhile, each advertiser must pay a participation cost to use each ad platform, and advertiser entry strategies are derived using symmetric Bayes-Nash equilibrium that lead to the VCG outcome of the ad... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

may be positive and is strictly lower than 1. We also investigate the possibility of platforms investing in "educating" unsophisticated users. In a competitive environment, such education is a public good among platforms and therefore the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

(and demand for redistribution) even if luck plays no role. In other words, there is multiplicity even if the equilibrium tax rate is independent of the signal-to-noise ratio (a quantity that expresses how important effort is, relative to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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