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  • 22 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Name Your Price. Really.

pricing—a phenomenon that admittedly makes no rational economic sense. When presented an opportunity for a freebie, "classical economic theory says you should pay nothing," says Santana. "Why buy something when you can get... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

order preservation, then all (pure strategy) Nash equilibria induce equal division. Next, we consider division rules satisfying efficiency, equal treatment of equals, and claims monotonicity. For claim games with at most three agents,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

  Working PapersGender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game Authors:Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract We propose a two-level-game (Putnam, 1988) perspective on gender in job negotiations. At Level 1, candidates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008

Bazerman Abstract The optimal moment to address the question of how to improve human decision making has arrived. In recent research, judgment and decision-making scholars have moved beyond the concept of bounded rationality to recognize... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

work and how they perform. Yet most formal analytical models of operations assume that the people who participate in operating systems are fully rational or at least can be induced to behave rationally. Many other disciplines, including... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

Noncooperative games are examined from the point of view of an outside observer who believes that the players are rational and that they know at least as much as the observer. The observer is assumed to be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?

verify their gut with a more quantitative analysis. What type of investor are you? Neither approach is necessarily better, says Huang. Rather, both are investors’ ways of managing and rationalizing risk. Checklist investors deal with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8

potential customer population when pricing at a level that, under the condition, can be shown to be an upper bound for a rational price choice for the firm irrespective of the prices chosen by its competitors. We show that under a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

tribes and U.S. states often find themselves at the bargaining table, often negotiating "compacts" to govern gaming operations on tribal lands. The operational success of the Pequot gaming... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Aug 2015
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First Look Tuesday

increase in revenue for established schools whereas invitations to prestigious postseason bowl games play a big part for less-established schools. Furthermore, we find that student population and education quality dissipate the effect of... View Details
  • 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

adjusts the policy rate slowly in response to changes in its privately observed target. Such gradualism reflects an attempt to not spook the bond market. However, this effort ends up being thwarted in equilibrium, as long-term rates View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

even rational in making funding decisions. Drawing on a panel of national experts and comprehensive data from the largest crowdfunding site, we examine funding decisions for proposed theater projects, a category where expert and crowd... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

consoles (particularly handheld ones) were facing increasing substitution from online and mobile games played on social networks and/or mobile phones (e.g. Zynga's Farmville). First, could Nintendo come up with a novel and innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

organization. And finally they embrace inconsistency, allowing themselves the latitude to pursue multiple and often conflicting agendas. Read this article: http://hbr.org/2011/06/the-ambidextrous-ceo/ar/1   Working PapersBetter-reply Dynamics in Deferred Acceptance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

Care? By: Handel, Benjamin, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—Consumers suffer significant losses from not acting on available information. These losses stem from frictions such as search costs, switching costs, and rational inattention,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

to join a syndicate that will fulfill the contract. We model syndicated markets as a repeated extensive form game and show that standard intuitions from industrial organization can be reversed: collusion may become easier as market... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial responses to securities mispricing. The managerial biases approach studies the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

multiple assortments rotated throughout the season—as opposed to selling all products in a single, fixed assortment—the retailer effectively conceals a portion of its full product catalog from consumers, injecting uncertainty into the consumer's relative product... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5

Limits to Network Effects Authors:Hann Hałaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets rationally prefer a platform restricting choice rather than a platform that offers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

rational for a platform to limit the number of applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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