Matching Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53817 November–December 2017 Marketing Science Match Your Own Price? Self-Matching as a Retailer's Multichannel Pricing Strategy By: Kireyev,... View Details

09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007

Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets Authors:Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner, and David Scharfstein Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming). (Earlier version distributed as National... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

phrases in content on U.S. political issues from two sources-Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia. Our overall slant measure is less (more) than zero when an article leans towards Democrat (Republican) viewpoints, while bias is the absolute value of the slant. Using a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

voluntary disclosure and marketing decisions. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/StrategicDisclosure.pdf January 2015 Innovation Policy and the Economy Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration By: Pekkala Kerr, Sari,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

quantitative implications match a range of moments not targeted in the estimation quite well. We then characterize the optimal policy path implied by the model and our estimates. Optimal policy makes heavy use of research subsidies as... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching of entrepreneurial ventures to investors is critically important. The entrepreneur's business proposition... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

ratings? How can KBRA compete with Fitch, Moody's, and S&P? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212034-PDF-ENG A New Financial Policy at Swedish Match Bo Becker and Michael NorrisHarvard Business School Case... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

outcomes while controlling for the endogenous matching of projects and organizational forms. Solo firm leases are less profitable than alliance leases because alliance members combine their information and expertise. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Feb 2013
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is. When competition becomes less intense, firms place emphasis on the strategic orientation that matches the dominant environmental condition (e.g., technology orientation when technology turbulence is high). However, as competition... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 13

PublicationsAdding Bricks to Clicks: Predicting the Patterns of Cross-Channel Elasticities over Time Authors:Jill Avery, Thomas J. Steenburgh, John Deighton, and Mary Caravella Publication:Journal of Marketing (forthcoming) Abstract In... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla Abstract—This paper shows that the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

through three examples: the design of medical residency matching programs, a scrip system to allocate food donations to food banks, and the recent "Incentive Auction" that reallocated wireless spectrum from television broadcasters to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

Abstract We survey the theory and evidence of behavioral corporate finance, which generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 2

areas. Our results suggest that matching between scientists may be subject to considerable frictions-even among those in relatively close geographic proximity and in the same organizational system. At the same time, even a brief and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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25 May 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Trust and Disintermediation: Evidence from an Online Freelance Marketplace

Keywords: by Grace Gu and Feng Zhu; Service

January 2021 (Revised March 2022)
Case

Brigad: The Future of Work

By: Nien-he Hsieh, Elena Corsi and Daniela Beyersdorfer

In 2019 Florent Malbranche, CEO and co-founder of the French tech startup Brigad, pondered the next growth steps. Founded in 2015, Brigad’s objective was two-fold: to help restaurants and bars find qualified staff for punctual shifts, and to make it easier for... View Details

Keywords: Platform Business; Gig Economy; Regulation; Entrepreneurship; Marketplace Matching; Growth and Development Strategy

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February 2024
Article

An Economic Framework for Vaccine Prioritization

By: Mohammad Akbarpour, Eric Budish, Piotr Dworczak and Scott Duke Kominers

We propose an economic framework for determining the optimal allocation of a scarce supply of vaccines that become gradually available during a public health crisis, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Agents differ in observable and unobservable characteristics, and the... View Details