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  • 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
  • 02 Aug 2021
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What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

Brown University, detail their findings in the working paper Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency. When employees talk about their pay A labor economist, Cullen noticed while conducting research in 2014 that workers with comparable... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 29 Oct 2018
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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
  • 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

and Matthew C. Weinzierl 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 equilibrium model in which prices are sticky in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

person one rank above them instead of the person one rank below. Last-place aversion suggests that low-income individuals might oppose redistribution because it could differentially help the group just... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1

look large and compelling. But it can have significant downsides. Leaders who prefer to zoom in tend to create policies and systems that depend too much on politics and favors. They can focus too closely on personal status and on turf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2002
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How to Look at Globalization Now

fixed costs/scale sensitivity on the supply side, are all capable of reducing the equilibrium level of global standardization, as is the ability of local producers to pre-commit costs to particular markets. Convergence of the price of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

intermediate, respectively. However, for larger quality provision costs, firms exploit both dimensions to differentiate their products. In particular, we characterize a maximal differentiation equilibrium in which one firm chooses the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays uncertainty, and contingent-debt service. Our framework also recognizes that contingent debt can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

Landvoigt Abstract—How does the shadow banking system respond to changes in the capital regulation of commercial banks? This paper builds a quantitative general equilibrium model with commercial banks and shadow banks to study the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

choices to optimally guide the other choices." This definition captures the idea of strategy as the core of an intended course of action that is potentially flexible and adaptive. It coincides with the equilibrium outcome of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 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
  • 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4

accumulation of patents generates an increasing number of claims on sequential innovation. We study the equilibrium innovation activity under three regimes: patents, no-patents, and patent pools. Patent pools increase the probability of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

2013 European Business Review Changes in Work, Changes in Self? Managing Our Work and Non-Work Identities in an Integrated World By: Ramarajan, Lakshmi, and Erin M. Reid Abstract—Diverse workplaces are challenging the boundaries between workers' View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2015
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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
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

firms will have a new CEO within the next four years; your company could very well be next. Senior executives know that a CEO transition means they're in for a round of firings, organizational reshuffles, and other unwelcome career changes. When your career suddenly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2000
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Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

people, and it provides skills and good wages in a country where the average person makes from $90 to $100 per year. Equally important is the project's catalytic impact on future investment. The sponsors are considering adding a second... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 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
  • 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

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