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incumbent advantage. But did it really? As Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth and Texas A&M professor Brit Grosskopf demonstrate in recent research, the devil... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Construction; Real Estate; Entertainment & Recreation

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

Beware of competitors lying in the grass, says Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth. His study of bidding practices on eBay suggest that those who wait until the last minute to bid—a practice... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology

30 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

Unfair. Undignified. Inappropriate, unprofessional, distasteful—and most of all, repugnant. To the wonder and surprise of Alvin E. Roth, a Harvard economist, these harsh words are often hoisted to describe... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

An economic handyman of sorts, Alvin E. Roth fixes broken markets. As a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in the field of market design, the Harvard Business School professor... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

quality of games is that, thanks to tweaks in the design of postseason matchups, teams at the highest championship level more often find themselves facing their true competitive counterparts. It was not always so. Until 1992, as HBS economist View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

22 Jul 2010
News

Un-Freakonomics

13 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 13

"ladder of engagement." Publisher's link: http://www.ieseinsight.com/review/articulo.aspx?doc=119397&seccion=6&idioma=2 Working Papers College Admissions as Non-Price Competition: The Case of South Korea By: Avery,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Aug 2011
News

NYC Program Means Real Public School Choice for Students

05 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

908-068 In this case we look at the design and development of an unconventional market, where neither money nor traditional "goods" are exchanged. Kidney exchange is an idea pioneered by HBS professor and market designer View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction Authors:Eyal Ert, Ido Erev, and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Special Issue on Predicting... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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College Admissions as Non-Price Competition: The Case of South Korea

Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions

Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchanges

Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation

Don’t Take ‘No’ for an Answer: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations

Strategy-Proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match

The Need for (Long) Chains in Kidney Exchange

The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College Football Bowls

HBS Professor Al Roth Named Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science

When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal