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  • January 2015
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Marketplace or Reseller?

By: Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright
Intermediaries can choose between functioning as a marketplace (on which suppliers sell their products directly to buyers) or as a reseller (purchasing products from suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a decision between whether control rights over... View Details
Keywords: Intermediation; Multi-sided Platforms; Control Rights; Marketing
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Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright. "Marketplace or Reseller?" Management Science 61, no. 1 (January 2015): 184–203.
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Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search?

By: Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien
We analyze the incentives to divert search for an information intermediary who enables buyers (consumers) to search affiliated sellers (stores). We identify two original motives for diverting search (i.e., inducing consumers to search more than they would like): 1)... View Details
Keywords: Market Intermediation; Search; Two-Sided Markets; Platform Design; Demand and Consumers; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Distribution Channels; Business Strategy; Retail Industry
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Hagiu, Andrei, and Bruno Jullien. "Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search?" RAND Journal of Economics 42, no. 2 (Summer 2011): 337–362. (2012 Winner for Best Paper on Competition Economics, Association of Competition Economics.)
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The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times

By: Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani and Zhaogang Song
This paper investigates how dealers’ trading relations shape their trading behavior in the corporate bond market. Dealers charge lower spreads to dealers with whom they have the strongest ties and more so during periods of market turmoil. Systemically important dealers... View Details
Keywords: OTC Markets; Network; Corporate Bonds; Crisis; Intermediation Chains; Leaning Against The Wind; Networks; Bonds; Behavior; Financial Crisis
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Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song. "The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times." Journal of Financial Economics 124, no. 2 (May 2017): 266–284.
  • 05 Nov 2018
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Pioneer (Dis-)advantages in Markets for Technology

Keywords: by Moritz Fischer, Joachim Henkel, and Ariel Dora Stern; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 2009
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Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? - Companion Paper

By: Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien
This companion paper contains several extensions of the model presented in our main paper - Hagiu and Jullien (2009). View Details
Keywords: Market Intermediation; Search; Two Sided Markets; Platform Design; Demand and Consumers; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Distribution Channels; Business Strategy; Retail Industry
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Hagiu, Andrei, and Bruno Jullien. "Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? - Companion Paper." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-092, February 2009.
  • March 2014
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Search Diversion and Platform Competition

By: Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien
Platforms use search diversion in order to trade off total consumer traffic for higher revenues derived by exposing consumers to unsolicited products (e.g., advertising). We show that competition between platforms leads to lower equilibrium levels of search diversion... View Details
Keywords: Market Intermediation; Search; Two-Sided Markets; Platform Design; Platform Competition; Competition; Two-Sided Platforms
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Hagiu, Andrei, and Bruno Jullien. "Search Diversion and Platform Competition." International Journal of Industrial Organization 33 (March 2014): 48–60.
  • 13 Jan 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Intermediaries for the IP Market

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & David Yoffie
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

A Marketable Skill

What is the perfect job for someone who is fiercely independent, likes to work with artistic people, has no desire to be fabulously wealthy, and has "a mouth with a death wish"? Give up? "My friends who have known me the longest tell me that running a flea View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity

By: Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner
We examine twenty years of direct private equity investments by seven large institutions. These direct investments perform better than public market indices, especially buyout investments and those made in the 1990s. Outperformance by the direct investments, however,... View Details
Keywords: Financial Intermediation; Direct Investment; Co-investment; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Financial Markets
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Fang, Lily, Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner. "The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity." Journal of Financial Economics 116, no. 1 (April 2015): 160–178.
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Segmented Arbitrage

By: Emil Siriwardane, Adi Sunderam and Jonathan Wallen
We use arbitrage activity in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets to characterize the frictions and constraints facing intermediaries. The average pairwise correlation between the 32 arbitrage spreads that we study is 22%. These low correlations are... View Details
Keywords: Financial Intermediation; Arbitrage; Intermediary-based Asset Pricing; Finance; Segmentation
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Siriwardane, Emil, Adi Sunderam, and Jonathan Wallen. "Segmented Arbitrage." Journal of Finance (forthcoming).
  • 09 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.

organizations tended to be created for the purpose of marketing countries as investment sites and not with the primary objectives of screening investment or negotiating with investors. Governments can adopt two polar positions in their... View Details
Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
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How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages (with Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Selin Sayek)

By: Laura Alfaro
The empirical literature finds mixed evidence on the existence of positive productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a novel mechanism, which emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling... View Details
  • August 2019 (Revised April 2021)
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Zillow Offers: Winning Online Real Estate 2.0

By: Luis Viceira, Marco Di Maggio and Allison Ciechanover
Founded in 2005, Zillow had become the leading online real estate and home-related marketplace. The brand was recognized as a trusted resource for players in the real estate market, providing information and transparency on home prices. Revenue, which was historically... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; Corporate Culture; Intermediation; Brokerage; Startup; Evaluating Business Investments; Property; Information Technology; Business Model; Expansion; Business Startups; Real Estate Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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Viceira, Luis, Marco Di Maggio, and Allison Ciechanover. "Zillow Offers: Winning Online Real Estate 2.0." Harvard Business School Case 220-021, August 2019. (Revised April 2021.)
  • 27 Sep 2006
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How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan & Selin Sayek
  • February 1997 (Revised October 2002)
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Mexico (C): Reform and Crisis, 1987-1995

By: Huw Pill
Describes the evolution of the Mexican economy and its relation with the international capital markets in the period leading up to the Peso crisis of December 1994. Emphasizes the role of "Washington consensus" policies in stimulating the inflows, and the inability of... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; Capital Markets; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Mexico
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Pill, Huw. "Mexico (C): Reform and Crisis, 1987-1995." Harvard Business School Case 797-050, February 1997. (Revised October 2002.)
  • June 2002 (Revised October 2002)
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Mexico: The Tequila Crisis 1994-1995

By: Huw Pill
Describes the evolution of the Mexican economy and its relation to the international capital markets in the period leading up to the Peso crisis of December 1994. Emphasizes the role of "Washington consensus" policies in stimulating the inflows and the inability of the... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Macroeconomics; Mexico
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Pill, Huw. "Mexico: The Tequila Crisis 1994-1995." Harvard Business School Case 702-093, June 2002. (Revised October 2002.)
  • 10 Jun 2002
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How to Look at Globalization Now

HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, a specialist in strategy and the dynamics of globalization, says that while market integration has made deep inroads in the last few decades, according to the evidence, it's still far short of what economic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

    Olivia S. Kim

    Olivia Kim is an assistant professor of business administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches the Entrepreneurial Management course in the MBA required curriculum.

    Professor Kim's research examines how firms... View Details

    • January 2011 (Revised June 2011)
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    Intellectual Property Intermediaries

    By: Andrei Hagiu
    During the past 5 to 10 years, several different intermediation business models have emerged for the intellectual property (IP) market. This note describes the most prominent ones: non-practicing entities (or patent trolls), defensive patent aggregators, online IP... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Intellectual Property; Auctions; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Service Industry
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    Hagiu, Andrei. "Intellectual Property Intermediaries." Harvard Business School Case 711-486, January 2011. (Revised June 2011.)
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    Delegation of Authority in Oligopoly

    This paper studies the consequences of product-market competition on firms' decisions to delegate more or fewer decision-making responsibilities to managers. By simultaneously addressing the choice of both competitive actions and organizational design, the paper... View Details

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