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  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

research into this emerging field and its implications for executives. Sean Silverthorne: How did you get interested in studying multi- and two-sided platforms? Is this a new area of research? Andrei Hagiu: During my PhD program in View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • Article

Changes in Negative Reciprocity as a Function of Age

By: Yoella Bereby-Meyer and Shelly Fiks
Standard economic models assume people exclusively pursue material self-interests in social interactions. However, people exhibit social preferences; that is, they base their choices partly on the outcomes others obtained in a social interaction. People care about... View Details
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Collusion in Brokered Markets

By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers and Richard Lowery
The U.S. residential real estate agency market presents a puzzle for economic theory: commissions on real estate transactions have remained high for decades even though entry is frequent and costs are low. We model the real estate agency market, and other brokered... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; ＂Repeated Games＂; Collusion; Antitrust; Brokered Markets; Game Theory; Real Estate Industry
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  • 08 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

An economic handyman of sorts, Alvin E. Roth fixes broken markets. As a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in the field of market design, the Harvard Business School professor cofounded a kidney donation matching system for New England,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • March 2023
  • Article

Not from Concentrate: Collusion in Collaborative Industries

By: Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers and Richard Lowery
The chief principle of antitrust law and theory is that reducing market concentration—having more, smaller firms instead of fewer, bigger ones—reduces anticompetitive behavior. We demonstrate that this principle is fundamentally incomplete.

In many... View Details
Keywords: Antitrust; Antitrust Law; Antitrust Theory; Law And Economics; Collusion; Collaboration; Collaborative Industries; Regulation; ＂Repeated Games＂; IPOs; Initial Public Offerings; Underwriters; Real Estate; Real Estate Agents; Realtors; Syndicated Markets; Syndication; Brokers; Market Concentration; Competition; Law; Economics; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Game Theory; Initial Public Offering
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    Jerry R. Green

    Jerry R. Green

    David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

    John Leverett Professor in the University

    Harvard University

     

    Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services
    • 2003
    • Book

    The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World

    By: Bhaskar Chakravorti

    Innovation's encounter with the market results in a game of both high risk and high stakes. Often its outcome defies common sense: Superior new products flop, unlikely ideas become runaway hits, and—despite rapid technological advances and intense... View Details

    Keywords: Game Theory; Network Effects; Innovation and Invention; Product Marketing; Economics
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    • 11 Aug 2016
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

    Education.” I'm your host, Brian Kenny, and you're listening to Cold Call. Bill Kirby is a historian who examines contemporary China's business, economic and political development in an international context. In addition to many books and... View Details
    Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education
    • Research Summary

    The Role of the Internet in Enhancing Service and Reducing Cost

    Is delivering service (both internal and external) facilitated by the Internet a zero sum game in which costs associated with delivering superior service must always be passed on to customers in the form of higher prices? Does the quantity and type of service... View Details

    • 25 May 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Accounting for Crises

    Keywords: by Venky Nagar & Gwen Yu
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Behavioral Attenuation

    By: Thomas Graeber, Benjamin Enke, Ryan Oprea and Jeffrey Yang
    We report a large-scale examination of behavioral attenuation: due to information-processing constraints, the elasticity of people’s decisions with respect to economic fundamentals is generally too small. We implement more than 30 experiments, 20 of which were... View Details
    Keywords: Decisions; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Behavioral Finance
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    Third-party Punishment as a Costly Signal of Trustworthiness

    By: Jillian J. Jordan, Moshe Hoffman, Paul Bloom and David G. Rand
    Third-party punishment (TPP), in which unaffected observers punish selfishness, promotes cooperation by deterring defection. But why should individuals choose to bear the costs of punishing? We present a game theoretic model of TPP as a costly signal of... View Details
    Keywords: Third-party Punishment; Trustworthiness; Behavior; Trust; Game Theory
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      Feng Zhu

      Feng Zhu is the MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he leads the Platform Lab within the Digital, Data, and Design Institute, co-chairs the Harvard Business Analytics Program, and serves as the course head for the... View Details

      • Research Summary

      Platform Competition

      Technology has challenged the underlying foundations of business, and firms must evaluate and change strategies accordingly. Professor Halaburda studies the interaction of technology and economic theory, and her findings indicate that conventional wisdom and rules... View Details

      • 28 Feb 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

      until at least 10 minutes have passed without a bid. Q: In your study of eBay, how much sniping was going on, and what categories or products were most likely to be sniped? A: In the eBay data we collected for our 2002 American Economics... View Details
      Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology
      • September 1990
      • Article

      Competition on Many Fronts: A Stackelberg Signaling Equilibrium

      By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
      An economic agent, the incumbent, is operating in many environments at the same time. These may be locations, markets, or specific activities. He is informed of the particular conditions relevant to each situation. His action in each case is observable by another... View Details
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      • 29 Aug 2008
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College Football Bowls

      Keywords: by Guillaume R. Fréchette, Alvin E. Roth & M. Utku Ünver; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting
      • 15 Apr 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: April 15, 2008

      paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-090.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsChina Rising: An Economic Snapshot Harvard Business School Note 308-064 "Rising China: An Economic Snapshot" provides... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace

        Dennis A. Yao

        Dennis Yao is the Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration and Chair of the Doctoral Programs at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2004 after having been at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. From 1991-1994 he served as... View Details

        Keywords: automotive; defense; federal government; high technology
        • 09 Aug 2013
        • Research & Ideas

        Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!

        More than ever, newspapers need these organizational capabilities. It's still far too early, of course, to tell what the Washington Post will look like five years from now. But Bezos's experience on these three fronts may give it as good a shot as any at getting there.... View Details
        Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing