Economics Of Information System - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Feb 2010
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Publication:Quantitative Marketing and Economics 7, no. 3 (September 2009): 237-266 Abstract This study presents a signaling model of advertising for horizontally differentiated products. The central... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

February 2020
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Seso Global: Building a Blockchain-enabled Property Marketplace in Nigeria

By: Boris Vallee and Yang (Dolly) Yu

The mutual aspiration of addressing the housing shortage and improving real estate market efficiency led Daniel and Phillip to co-found Seso Global in 2017. Seso Global developed a unique integrated platform to streamline and rationalize the process of acquiring and... View Details

Keywords: Fintech; Blockchain; Developing Markets; Entrepreneurial Management; Financing and Loans; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Property; Growth and Development Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Real Estate Industry; Africa; Nigeria

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18 Mar 2008
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sample of 1,083 acquisitions of venture capital-backed private companies from 1976 and 2001, we find strong evidence that venture capital firms can form a bridge between acquiring firms and target firms that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Mar 2010
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with a low-cost and very simple operating system. The case explores all aspects of their system (mission, information management, material flows, human resource system,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2019
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Real Exchange Rate Behavior: New Evidence from Matched Retail Goods

By: Alberto Cavallo, Brent Neiman and Roberto Rigobon

We use a dataset containing daily prices for thousands of matched retail products in nine countries to study tradable-goods real exchange rates. Prices were collected from the websites of large multi-channel retailers and then carefully matched into narrowly-deﬁned... View Details

Keywords: Purchasing Power Parity; Online Prices; Real Exchange Rate; Macroeconomics; Currency Exchange Rate; Price; Internet and the Web

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13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

standard measures of patent quality, we find that patents granted to firms involved in private equity transactions are more cited (a proxy for economic importance), show no significant shifts in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

full lockdown has significant economic consequences, as most commercial activity comes to a halt. Also, in democratic societies, a complete lockdown is difficult and likely impossible to enforce. This is why the use View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

November 2001
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Global Approaches to Anti-Corruption

By: Joseph Hinsey, Guhan Subramanian and Michelle Kalka

In the 1970s, a series of unpleasant revelations about corporate conduct, culminating in the public disclosure about unsavory business practices abroad by more than 400 U.S. corporations, jarred popular perceptions concerning business ethics. Congress responded by... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Globalization; Developing Countries and Economies; Laws and Statutes; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Information Industry; United States

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21 Jul 2014
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Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

(Editor's note: This first in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

22 Jun 2010
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advertising market—one that suffers quite a different set of problems. Display advertising systems place ads-typically, rectangular "banners"—on the majority of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

public corporations and its canonization as the only legitimate expression of corporate purpose has contributed to both a widening breach between American-style capitalism and justice and increased alienation View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Mar 2011
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Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

public-private partnerships for water filtration and distribution. Ayala's public utility subsidiary, Manila Water Company, was awarded the operation of the privatized water system for the East Zone View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Feb 2008
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information about how to switch to export crops, makes in-kind loans for the purchase of the agricultural inputs, and provides marketing services by facilitating the transaction with exporters. The... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2002
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President Bush and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani exhibited remarkable leadership following the September 11 crisis. I also admire Michigan Governor John Engler, who's shown courage in taking on some tough but important political and View Details

20 Dec 2011
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stereotype-incongruent information. Implications for impression formation are discussed. Inducement Prizes and Innovation Authors:Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner, and Tom Nicholas Publication:Journal of Industrial View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Apr 2012
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relational contracts (i.e., informal agreements sustained by the shadow of the future). We argue that one of the reasons these practices may be difficult to copy is that... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Erica Moszkowski

to inform our understanding of social and economic networks. “Working every day with PhD-trained economists taught me to be an effective consumer View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Books

Innovation and Its Discontents by Josh Lerner and Adam B. Jaffe (Princeton University Press) Innovation and Its Discontents tells the story of how recent changes in patenting — an institutional process that was created to nurture... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

July 2008 (Revised December 2009)
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Infosys' Relationship Scorecard: Measuring Transformational Partnerships

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, Robert S. Kaplan and Katherine Miller

This case analyzes Infosys' innovative approach to measuring performance in client relations. Infosys' strategy is evolving to build transformational partnerships from its original position as an outsourcer of end-to-end IT projects. A transformational partner helps... View Details