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  • 25 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 25, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-067.pdf Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences Author: Hanna W. Halaburda Abstract This paper investigates the causes and welfare consequences of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2024
  • Op-Ed

Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.

But the second prediction is unraveling before our eyes. A new New York Times/Siena College Poll showed a steady narrowing in Democrats’ margin within this important group for the current presidential race, compared with the 2016... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

concept of "unraveling"? A: Unraveling is the process by which some markets start to clear earlier and earlier, before important information becomes available. In the case of football bowls, the NCAA used to try to prevent bowls from... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports
  • 18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18

paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1320187 Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation Authors:Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and M. Utku Ünver Abstract Markets sometimes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

clean, and manufacturing is dull and dirty. “The unraveling of a commons is a vicious circle” Such a view of manufacturing is a myth and is based on a profound misunderstanding of how the process of innovation works and the link between... View Details
Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing
  • 25 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Adjusting the Fit for Government

Berlin-based nonprofit that supports "national integrity systems" to help curb corruption, Ezekwesili told the HBS audience that it's not enough for African governments to aspire to macro- and microeconomic stability. "We saw the Asian tigers View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

credit and leverage, and expose the economy to major risks. Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer carefully walk readers through the unraveling of Lehman Brothers and the ensuing meltdown of the U.S. financial system and then present new... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

unraveling of social relations, in turn, creates pressures for the state to step in as an economic intermediary. We need to pay more attention to domestic consumer market regulation as a source of national competitiveness. What is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-055.pdf Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions Author:Alvin E. Roth Abstract This paper describes the unraveling of transaction dates in several markets, including the labor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

success, and there can be marketplace failures. I'll discuss labor markets like the market for new economists as well as markets for new lawyers and doctors that have suffered from the unraveling of appointment dates to well before... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

sector may be traced back to fundamental properties of the underlying technologies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-144.pdf Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

lead businesses to voluntarily provide information about the quality of their products. This theoretical prediction is based on unraveling arguments, which require that consumers hold correct beliefs about non-disclosed information.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

resolution to the rapidly escalating customer situation that motivated his trip, he finds himself facing distributed work, global collaboration, conflict, and management issues that are threatening to unravel his team. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

schools choose to display on their websites. First, the data strongly rejects patterns predicted by classic models of voluntary disclosure. In contrast with the traditional unraveling hypothesis, top schools are least likely to display... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

and banking crisis. The paper then explains how the crisis unraveled and describes the U.S. bailout of the Mexican government in 1995. Since the exchange rate crisis of December of 1994 then translated into a banking crisis in 1995, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

helping to finance that deficit. If those global imbalances are unraveled chaotically, the stirrings of a crisis of legitimacy for the free movement of capital would be strengthened. Hopefully these imbalances will not be resolved in a... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 04 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

can unravel the genetic code, we can measure tau neutrinos, but nope, the quality of this doctor or hospital is unmeasurable? I think these are very self-serving arguments. Q: Well, you almost automatically get transparency if you have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

its currency. Investors started to flee Asia, and the crisis rapidly spread to other countries. Central banks spent billions of dollars to try and defend their currencies, only to seek emergency bailouts from the International Monetary Fund. This case presents a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

A may prefer to accept lower future profits in order to interact with a monopolist complement in B. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-009.pdf Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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