Publications

October 2006
Article

Location Choices across the Value Chain: How Activity and Capability Influence Collocation

By: Juan Alcacer

There has been a recent revival of interest in the geographic component of firm strategy. Recent research suggests that two opposing forces—competition costs and agglomeration benefits—determine whether firms collocate in a given geographic market. Unexplored is (1)... View Details

Keywords: Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Sales; Research and Development; Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Markets; Production; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Distribution; Cost vs Benefits; SWOT Analysis; Telecommunications Industry

Article

Modelling the Effect of Purchase Quantity on Consumer Choice of Product Assortment

By: Randolph E. Bucklin, Sunil Gupta and S. Siddarth

Keywords: Sales; Decision Choices and Conditions; Customers; Product

January 2020 (Revised December 2020)
Technical Note

The Choice to Cofound and Initial Control and Ownership Splits in Startups

By: Stig Leschly

Educators

Purchase

September 2004
Article

Too Much of A Good Thing? The Role of Choice in Negotiation"

By: Michael Wheeler

Keywords: Negotiation; Decision Choices and Conditions

July 2005
Article

Profit Maximization versus Disadvantageous Inequality in Choice Behavior: The Impact of Self-Categorization

By: S. M. Garcia, A. Tor, M. Bazerman and D. T. Miller

Keywords: Profit; Decision Choices and Conditions; Behavior; Social Psychology

1992
Other Unpublished Work

By Choice or By Chance? Tracking the Values in Massachusetts' Public Spending

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Spending; Public Sector; Value; Massachusetts

07 Feb 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice

Keywords: by Lauren H. Cohen & Breno Schmidt; Financial Services

2006
Article

Empowerment through Choice? A Critical Analysis of the Effects of Choice in Organizations

By: Roy Y.J. Chua and S Iyengar

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Theory; Organizations

Article

Sole-Sourcing Versus Competitive Bidding: U.S. Government Agencies' Procedural Choices for Mainframe Computer Procurement

By: Shane Greenstein

2017
Working Paper

Carbon Tariffs: Effects in Settings with Technology Choice and Foreign Production Cost Advantage

By: David F. Drake

Emissions regulation is a policy mechanism intended to address the threat of climate change. However, the stringency of emissions regulation varies across regions, raising concerns over carbon leakage—an outcome where stringent regulation in one region shifts... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Competition; Pollutants; Taxation; Environmental Sustainability; Globalized Markets and Industries

SSRN

2023
Working Paper

Interest-Rate Risk and Household Portfolios

By: Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller, James Paron and Natasha Sarin

How are households exposed to interest-rate risk? When rates fall, households face lower future expected returns but those holding long-term assets—disproportionately the wealthy and middle-aged—experience capital gains. We study the hedging demand for long-term assets... View Details

Keywords: Portfolio Choice; Social Security; Interest Rates; Investment Portfolio; Equality and Inequality; Welfare

March 2021
Article

Active Choice, Implicit Defaults, and the Incentive to Choose

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian

Home-delivered prescriptions have no delivery charge and lower copayments than prescriptions picked up at a pharmacy. Nevertheless, when home delivery is offered on an opt-in basis, the take-up rate is only 6%. We study a program that makes active choice of either home... View Details

Keywords: Active Choice; Defaults; Implicit Defaults; Incentives; Consumer Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Motivation and Incentives

Article

When Should a Platform Give People Fewer Choices and Charge More for Them?

By: Hanna Halaburda and Mikolaj Jan Piskorski

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions

2001
Chapter

Commercialization of the Internet: The Interaction of Public Policy and Private Choices

By: Shane Greenstein

2010
Other Unpublished Work

Split Decisions: How Social and Economic Choices Affect the Stability of Founding Teams

By: Matt Marx and Noam Wasserman

Keywords: Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Economics; Society

11 Feb 2017
News

Mass entertainment in the digital age is still about blockbusters, not endless choice

November 2019
Article

When and Why Defaults Influence Decisions: A Meta-analysis of Default Effects

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Shannon Duncan, Elke U. Weber and Eric J. Johnson

When people make decisions with a pre-selected choice option—a “default”—they are more likely to select that option. Because defaults are easy to implement, they constitute one of the most widely employed tools in the choice architecture toolbox. However, to decide... View Details

Keywords: Choice Architecture; Defaults; Default Effects; Decision Making; Behavior; Analysis

October 1994
Article

When Worlds Collide: The Implications of Panel Data-Based Choice Models for Consumer Behavior

By: R. S. Winer, R.E. Bucklin, J. A. Deighton, J. Erdem, P.S. Fader, J.J. Inman, H. Katahira, Katherine N. Lemon and A. Mitchell

Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Consumer Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions