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  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

study seeks to understand the effect of access to sex selection technologies such as ultrasound, and consequently skewed sex ratios, on the marriage market and intrahousehold outcomes of females in India. Existing economic theory and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Reputation When Threats and Transfers Are Available

By: Ernesto Dal Bo, Pedro Dal Bo and Rafael Di Tella
We present a model where a long-run player is allowed to use both money transfers and threats to influence the decisions of a sequence of short-run players. We show that threats might be used credibly (even in arbitrarily short repeated games) by a long-lived player... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Choices and Conditions; Game Theory; Mathematical Methods; Interests; Power and Influence; Reputation
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  • 13 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

common tool in experimental economics, the dictator game has one player determining how to split an endowment between himself and another player.) The prediction bore out. In a series of experiments involving 154 participants, those... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • June 2011
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Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor

By: Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable giving because they know little about the persons who receive their help. This concern is particularly acute when making contributions to organizations that serve heterogeneous populations. While we... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Policy; Information; Knowledge Acquisition; Game Theory; Prejudice and Bias; Poverty; Welfare
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  • November 2019
  • Supplement

Hapag-Lloyd AG: Complying with IMO 2020

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney
A new environmental regulation known as IMO 2020 was creating what one industry analyst called “the biggest shakeup for the oil and shipping industries in decades.” According to the new regulation, all ocean-going ships would have to limit their sulfur emissions by... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Ship Transportation; Strategic Planning; Game Theory; Pollutants; Supply Chain; Corporate Accountability; Capital Budgeting; Environmental Sustainability; Shipping Industry; Transportation Industry; Germany
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  • 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

of home buyers, investors, and regulators. Using the latest research in psychology and behavioral economics, they present a new theory of belief formation that explains why the financial crisis came as such a shock to so many people—and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • July 2014
  • Article

Accounting for Crises

By: Venky Nagar and Gwen Yu
We provide among the first empirical evidence consistent with recent macro global-game crisis models, which show that the precision of public signals can coordinate crises (e.g., Angeletos and Werning, 2006; Morris and Shin, 2002, 2003). In these models,... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Mathematical Methods; Game Theory; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Accounting; Financial Crisis
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  • 24 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 24

pioneering work of Howard Raiffa and often expressed in the pages of the Negotiation Journal, the emergent prescriptive field of "negotiation analysis" progressively developed from Raiffa's early contributions to game View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • spring 1994
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Unilateral Commitments and the Importance of Process in Alliances

By: Ranjay Gulati, Tarun Khanna and Nitin Nohria
How the partners in an alliance view their joint venture can have much to do with its success or failure. Each partner fears that the other will get the larger payoff by acting opportunistically while it cooperates in good faith. The result is that both partners choose... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Partners and Partnerships; Joint Ventures; Management Practices and Processes; Alliances; Trust; Game Theory
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  • 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

coalitional games determine a unique value for games of threats. This value assigns to each player an average of the threat powers, d(S), of the coalitions that include the player. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

into a disruptee. Learning To Chicken-scratch If a technology is to succeed, in theory at least, it should not require people to radically change their behavior. Instead, companies that promote the technology should hope for a gradual... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

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 View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

Amy J.C. Cuddy, Ruwan Gunatilake, and Meredith HodgesHarvard Business School Exercise 911-013 This exercise is based on the popular group game "Mafia" and is designed to give students a broad introduction to multiple View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

the design choices that might mitigate these biases,” according to the paper. Acquisitions, exclusive deals, and strategy. Economists draw on economic theory and empirical methods to value exclusive deals in View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education
  • 18 Oct 2016
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October 18, 2016

innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services that customers want to buy and are willing to purchase at a premium price. How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26

may be less effective at motivating employees than the literature suggests. Our quasi-experimental setting shows that two types of unintended consequences limit gains from the reward program. First, employees strategically game the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

general goes on the attack, only to find that none of his troops actually follow him. “It seems quite possible that Toyota's model may have ossified a bit.” The book provides a very pragmatic (and detailed) look at how to achieve strategic integrity. This is not a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Video Game
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

negotiations can affect interaction processes and how negotiations can be not only a solution to, but also a source of, inter-organizational conflict. Principals, agents, and teams face different sets of constraints and opportunities in negotiations. We develop... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

challenges facing those who wish to use game theory to assist in strategic and tactical decision making. Purchase this overview: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/707475-PDF-ENG Merger of Equals: The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

consistent with the theory that a lower cost of recruiting rebels is an important factor in starting conflict. On the other hand, geographic factors are not significantly associated with such onset, suggesting that they instead contribute... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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