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  • 15 Dec 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Designing, Not Checking, for Policy Robustness: An Example with Optimal Taxation

Keywords: by Benjami Lockwood, Afras Y. Sial, and Matthew C. Weinzierl
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Optimal Signaling Policy with Rational and Irrational Agents (with James Burns)

We examine situations in which a single informed agent signals a group of uniformed agents. The uniformed agents must then take an action based on this signal. The motivation for our work comes from real world examples such as terrorist alerts or job safety... View Details
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Experience Curves and Dynamic Demand Models: Implications for Optimal Pricing Strategies

By: Robert J. Dolan
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Dolan, Robert J. "Experience Curves and Dynamic Demand Models: Implications for Optimal Pricing Strategies." Journal of Marketing 45, no. 1 (Winter 1981).

    A Prescriptive Analytics Framework for Optimal Policy Deployment Using Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

    We define a prescriptive analytics framework that addresses the needs of a constrained decision-maker facing, ex ante, unknown costs and benefits of multiple policy levers. The framework is general in nature and can be deployed in any utility maximizing... View Details
    • 2020
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    Targeting for Long-Term Outcomes

    By: Jeremy Yang, Dean Eckles, Paramveer Dhillon and Sinan Aral
    Decision makers often want to target interventions so as to maximize an outcome that is observed only in the long term. This typically requires delaying decisions until the outcome is observed or relying on simple short-term proxies for the long-term outcome. Here we... View Details
    Keywords: Targeted Marketing; Optimization; Churn Management; Marketing; Customer Relationship Management; Policy; Learning; Outcome or Result
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    Yang, Jeremy, Dean Eckles, Paramveer Dhillon, and Sinan Aral. "Targeting for Long-Term Outcomes." Working Paper, October 2020.
    • February 1989
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    Buybacks, Exit Bonds, and the Optimality of Debt and Liquidity Relief

    By: K. A. Froot
    Keywords: Chapter 7; Debt Reduction; Default; Sovereign Debt; Debt Crisis; Debt Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt
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    Froot, K. A. "Buybacks, Exit Bonds, and the Optimality of Debt and Liquidity Relief." International Economic Review 30, no. 1 (February 1989): 49–70. (Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 2675, July 1988. Translated into Spanish in Estudios Economicos 4 (July 1989): 31-60.)
    • March 1993
    • Case

    Classic Greek Explosives Company: Task Force Study of Optimal Bid Pricing

    By: Richard F. Meyer and Kirsten Syverson
    Keywords: Bids and Bidding
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    Meyer, Richard F., and Kirsten Syverson. "Classic Greek Explosives Company: Task Force Study of Optimal Bid Pricing." Harvard Business School Case 893-009, March 1993.
    • 2013
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    Optimizing the Amount of Entertainment in Advertising: What's So Funny about Tracking Reactions to Humor?

    By: Thales S. Teixeira and Horst Stipp
    Humor and other entertaining content, as opposed to demonstrations of product features and "selling," are increasingly used in advertising, such as TV commercials, to attract and keep consumers' attention. This study uses facial tracking to explore how marketers can... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising Content; Entertainment; Face Perception; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Television Entertainment; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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    Teixeira, Thales S., and Horst Stipp. "Optimizing the Amount of Entertainment in Advertising: What's So Funny about Tracking Reactions to Humor?" Journal of Advertising Research 53, no. 3 (September 2013): 286–296.
    • 1970
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    Analytical Optimal Control Theory as Applied to Stochastic and Non-Stochastic Economics

    By: Robert C. Merton
    Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Economics
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    Merton, Robert C. "Analytical Optimal Control Theory as Applied to Stochastic and Non-Stochastic Economics." Diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1970.
    • 2025
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    Evaluations Amid Measurement Error: Determining the Optimal Timing for Workplace Interventions

    By: Matthew DosSantos DiSorbo, Iavor I. Bojinov and Fiammetta Menchetti
    Researchers have embraced factorial experiments to simultaneously evaluate multiple treatments, each with different levels. Typically, in large-scale factorial experiments, the primary objective is identifying the treatment with the largest causal effect, especially... View Details
    Keywords: Factorial Designs; Fisher Randomizations; Rank Estimators; Employer Interventions; Causal Inference; Mathematical Methods; Performance Improvement
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    DosSantos DiSorbo, Matthew, Iavor I. Bojinov, and Fiammetta Menchetti. "Evaluations Amid Measurement Error: Determining the Optimal Timing for Workplace Interventions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-075, June 2024. (Revised May 2025.)
    • 1998
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    Some Evidence on the Optimal Welfare State Based on Subjective Data

    By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
    It is often difficult to evaluate all the costs and benefits of the welfare state. This paper suggests an alternative approach based on surveys of citizen satisfaction with welfare programs. In the first part of the paper we estimate the level of unemployment benefits... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Characteristics; Employment; Surveys; Programs; Government and Politics; Age; Income; Residency; Welfare; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Cost vs Benefits; Satisfaction; United Kingdom
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    Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "Some Evidence on the Optimal Welfare State Based on Subjective Data." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 98-092, March 1998.
    • December 2016
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    Strategy Execution Module 10: Using the Job Design Optimization Tool to Build Effective Organizations

    By: Robert Simons
    This module reading provides directions for using the online Job Design Optimization Tool (JDOT) which is available free of charge from Harvard Business School Publishing at https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/resources/marketing/multimedia/JDOT/index.html. This tool can... View Details
    Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Span Of Control; Span Of Accountability; Performance Measurement; Job Design; Organization Design; Strategy; Entrepreneurship
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    Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 10: Using the Job Design Optimization Tool to Build Effective Organizations." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-110, December 2016.
    • May 1983
    • Article

    Optimality Conditions and Strong Duality in Abstract and Continuous Time Linear Programming

    By: André Perold and R. Meidan
    Keywords: Mathematical Methods
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    Perold, André, and R. Meidan. "Optimality Conditions and Strong Duality in Abstract and Continuous Time Linear Programming." Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 40, no. 1 (May 1983): 61–76.
    • 1972
    • Chapter

    Optimal Utilization of Market Forecasts and the Evaluation of Portfolio Performance

    By: Michael Jensen
    Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Performance Evaluation
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    Jensen, Michael. "Optimal Utilization of Market Forecasts and the Evaluation of Portfolio Performance." In Mathematical Methods in Finance, edited by G. P. Szego and Karl Shell. North-Holland Publishing Company, 1972.
    • August 1988
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    Credibility, Real Interest Rates, and the Optimal Speed of Trade Liberalization

    By: K. A. Froot
    Keywords: International Trade; Trade Policy; Trade; Policy; Interest Rates
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    Froot, K. A. "Credibility, Real Interest Rates, and the Optimal Speed of Trade Liberalization." Journal of International Economics 25, nos. 1-2 (August 1988): 71–93. (Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 2358, May 1987.)
    • 2012
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    ~Why Do We Redistribute so Much but Tag so Little? Normative Diversity, Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation

    By: Matthew Weinzierl
    Tagging is a free lunch in conventional optimal tax theory because it eases the classic tradeoff between efficiency and equality. But tagging is used in only limited ways in tax policy. I propose one explanation: conventional optimal tax theory has yet to capture the... View Details
    Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Framework; Policy; Taxation; Analytics and Data Science; Performance Efficiency; United States
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    Weinzierl, Matthew. "~Why Do We Redistribute so Much but Tag so Little? Normative Diversity, Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-064, January 2012. (Revised August 2012. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18045, August 2012)
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    Professor Goh’s primary research interest is applying mathematical models to real-world problems in health care in order to inform, improve, and enhance medical decision making and health policy. His recent work in this domain focuses on developing new methods for... View Details
    Keywords: Uncertainty; Optimization; Inventory Management; Health; Decision Making; Supply Chain
    • spring 1990
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    Testing the Optimality of a Performance Evaluation Measure for a Gainsharing Contract

    By: S. Datar, R. Banker and M. Mazur
    Keywords: Performance; Measurement and Metrics; Contracts
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    Datar, S., R. Banker, and M. Mazur. "Testing the Optimality of a Performance Evaluation Measure for a Gainsharing Contract." Contemporary Accounting Research 6, no. 2 (spring 1990): 809–824.
    • spring 1973
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    Management of Commercial Bank Government Security Portfolios: An Optimization Approach Under Uncertainty

    By: D. B. Crane and Stephen P. Bradley
    Keywords: Management; Banks and Banking; Government and Politics; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty
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    Crane, D. B., and Stephen P. Bradley. "Management of Commercial Bank Government Security Portfolios: An Optimization Approach Under Uncertainty." Journal of Bank Research 4, no. 1 (spring 1973).
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    Stock Market Mean Reversion and the Optimal Equity Allocation of a Long-Lived Investor

    By: Luis M. Viceira, John Y. Campbell, Francisco Gomes and Pascal J. Maenhout
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    Viceira, Luis M., John Y. Campbell, Francisco Gomes, and Pascal J. Maenhout. "Stock Market Mean Reversion and the Optimal Equity Allocation of a Long-Lived Investor." European Finance Review 5, no. 3 (2001).
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