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  • 12 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

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
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

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
  • First Look

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
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Blissful Thinking

brain is structured to lie to you. There is a process called homeostasis, or the tendency toward equilibrium. You can’t stay out of equilibrium for long, but you’re going to try to get back out of it again by chasing success [which... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • First Look

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
  • 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
  • 16 Apr 2013
  • First Look

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
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

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
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

maximizes joint utility); (2) an equilibrium selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria, which result in different utility levels for the users); and (3) a coordination problem (lacking perfect... View Details
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

multihoming also make platforms' price-cutting strategies on the consumer side less effective. This second effect on equilibrium pricing structures goes in the opposite direction relative to the first one. Third, variable fees charged to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

wealth is observed, the effect of higher wealth on equilibrium bribes is ambiguous (and that the political class will exhibit lower variance in consumption than the general population). In settings where formal contracts matter, we show... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Sep 2016
  • News

How We Make It Work

Edited by Julia Hanna and Dan Morrell Above: Josh Escher, hard at work as father Peter supervises. (photo by Michael Hanson) The phrase “work-life balance”—that mythical equilibrium between career and family responsibilities—has been... View Details
  • 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
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50187 Capital Requirements, Risk Choice, and Liquidity Provision in a Business Cycle Model By: Begenau, Juliane Abstract—This paper develops a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

determine the equilibrium supply chain structure. These operational tradeoffs arise as a result of the geographic constraints posed by the availability of arable land and the spatial population distribution. We model the interdependent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

upgrade sales to an installed base. When profits from the installed base are sufficiently large, a pure strategy equilibrium exists with two B firms active in the market. Although there is competition in the complement market, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

as well as recent articles that help give the reader a sense of where the field is headed and where likely opportunities for future research lie. This article seeks to strike an equilibrium among the variety of perspectives that exist in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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