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  • 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
  • 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

are sufficiently large, a pure-strategy equilibrium exists where both B firms are active in the market. Although there is competition in the complement market, the monopoly Firm A may earn lower profits in this environment. Consequently,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-057.pdf Optimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

show that the combination of preference for variety and consumption complementarities gives rise to (i) a commons problem (to better satisfy their individual preference for variety, users have an incentive to consume more applications than the number that maximizes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

response in receiver actions after learning that they were profitably deceived. Despite the change in receiver behavior, stated beliefs about sender strategies remain insufficiently skeptical, which suggests that while direct and immediate feedback induces View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-032.pdf Network Effects in Countries' Adoption of IFRS Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten Abstract If a country's accounting standards represent a political-economic equilibrium, why is that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

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 victory. For... 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
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

Publication:Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (spring 2011) Abstract This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

such beliefs emerge in equilibrium even if depositors and bank owners have the same preferences and the same investment opportunities. Various government regulations of these institutions, including minimum capital levels, requirements... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

multinationals have been significantly more likely than domestic firms to employ women in positions of managerial responsibility. Also, while the market is moving towards a new equilibrium "freer" of discrimination, that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

learning can induce a great deal of wage inequality. An equilibrium model is developed in which firms can choose either to advertise their job openings prominently or not. Prominent ads are assumed to have more influence on more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

made from 1990 to 1995 picking up the pieces of the crash," says Fidelity's Sandwen. "Prices adjusted and real estate became more attractive. And we got back to relative equilibrium through the tech bust in 2001. After the bust,... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate
  • 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
  • 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
  • 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

the capital regulation of commercial banks? This paper builds a quantitative general equilibrium model with commercial banks and shadow banks to study the unintended consequences of capital requirements. A key feature of our model is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

joint decision of holding sovereign debt and reserves, we construct a stochastic dynamic equilibrium model calibrated to a sample of emerging markets. We obtain that the reserve accumulation does not play a quantitative important role in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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