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    Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions

    Business transactions take widely varying forms―from multibillion-dollar corporate mergers to patent licenses to the signing of an all-star quarterback. Yet every deal shares the same goal, or at least should: to maximize the joint value created and to distribute... View Details
    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    When Do User Innovators Start Firms? A Theory of User Entrepreneurship

    A rich and distinguished body of research has documented the importance of user innovations. For the most part, this literature has found that users innovate but do not commercialize their innovations. Instead, users benefit from using their innovations and allow... View Details
    Keywords: Customers; Commercialization; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention
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    Shah, Sonali, and Mary Tripsas. "When Do User Innovators Start Firms? A Theory of User Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-078, March 2012.
    • 20 Feb 2009
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    When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?

    Keywords: by Philippe Aghion, Diego Comin, Peter Howitt & Isabel Tecu
    • 04 Aug 2006
    • What Do You Think?

    What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?

    do they have more time to experience this content?" What does this bode for the future of economic theory and management education? Paula Thornton offered this opinion: "If there were to be a new... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • Forthcoming
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    The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Explaining Variation in Energy Transitions

    By: Jared Finnegan, Phillip Lipscy, Jonas Meckling and Florence Metz
    Why are some governments more effective in promoting economic change than others? We develop a theory of the institutional sources of economic transformation. Institutions can facilitate transformation through two central mechanisms: insulation and compensation.... View Details
    Keywords: Policy; Business and Government Relations; Supply and Industry; Demand and Consumers; Transformation; Economic Systems; Climate Change
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    Finnegan, Jared, Phillip Lipscy, Jonas Meckling, and Florence Metz. "The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Explaining Variation in Energy Transitions." Journal of Politics (forthcoming).
    • 1982
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    On the Microeconomic Theory of Investment under Uncertainty

    By: Robert C. Merton
    Keywords: Microeconomics; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management
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    Merton, Robert C. "On the Microeconomic Theory of Investment under Uncertainty." In Handbook of Mathematical Economics. Vol. 2, edited by K. Arrow and M. Intriligator. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1982.
    • January 2004
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    Cross-country Technological Adoption: Making the Theories Face the Facts

    By: Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn
    We examine the diffusion of more than twenty technologies across twenty-three of the world's leading industrial economies. Our evidence covers major technology classes such as textile production, steel manufacture, communications, information technology,... View Details
    Keywords: Technology Adoption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Development Economics; Human Capital; Government and Politics; Trade; Production; Information Technology; Steel Industry; Communications Industry
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    Comin, Diego, and Bart Hobijn. "Cross-country Technological Adoption: Making the Theories Face the Facts." Journal of Monetary Economics (January 2004).
    • 2019
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    Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket

    By: Robert Simons
    This paper examines contemporary economic theories that focus on the design and management of business organizations. In the first part of the paper, a taxonomy is presented that describes the different types of economists interested in this subject—market economists,... View Details
    Keywords: Self-interest; Economist; Moral Philosophers; Regulation; Capture; Organization Design; Economy Theory; Organization Theory; Management Theory; Commitment; Controls; Governance; Customers; Conflict of Interests; Business or Company Management; Competition; Organizational Design; Business Education; Agency Theory; Economics; Theory; Boundaries
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    Simons, Robert. "Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-045, October 2015. (Revised January 2019.)
    • 2012
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    Citizens' Perceptions and the Disconnect Between Economics and Regulatory Policy

    By: Jonathan Baron, William T. McEnroe and Christopher Poliquin
    Economic theory is clear about the advantages and disadvantages of various ways of regulating negative externalities, such as command and control, cap and trade, taxation, subsidies, and tort law. Yet public policy rarely follows the recommendations that follow from... View Details
    Keywords: Regulation; Decision Making; Government and Politics; United States
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    Baron, Jonathan, William T. McEnroe, and Christopher Poliquin. "Citizens' Perceptions and the Disconnect Between Economics and Regulatory Policy." In Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation, edited by Cary Coglianese. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
    • 01 Dec 1997
    • News

    Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

    is hard to overstate." Carliss Y. Baldwin, the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at the School, commented, "Bob's methods have been applied to an enormously wide range of economic problems, ranging from pure View Details
    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Measuring the Tolerance of the State: Theory and Application to Protest

    By: Veli Andirin, Yusuf Neggers, Mehdi Shadmehr and Jesse M. Shapiro
    We develop a measure of a regime's tolerance for an action by its citizens. We ground our measure in an economic model and apply it to the setting of political protest. In the model, a regime anticipating a protest can take a costly action to repress it. We define the... View Details
    Keywords: Political Protests; Modeling And Analysis; Government and Politics; Conflict and Resolution
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    Andirin, Veli, Yusuf Neggers, Mehdi Shadmehr, and Jesse M. Shapiro. "Measuring the Tolerance of the State: Theory and Application to Protest." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30167, June 2022.
    • 09 Nov 2010
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    The Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis

    Keywords: by Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis & Alvin J. Silk; Advertising
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    Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics

    By: Thomas Astebro, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda and Roberto A. Weber
    There is a growing body of evidence that many entrepreneurs seem to enter and persist in entrepreneurship despite earning low risk-adjusted returns. This has lead to attempts to provide explanations—using both standard economic theory and behavioral economics—for why... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personal Characteristics; Attitudes; Behavior
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    Astebro, Thomas, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda, and Roberto A. Weber. "Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics." Journal of Economic Perspectives 28, no. 3 (Summer 2014): 49–70.
    • 16 Sep 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

    In 2012, two seasoned scholars shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their research on designing markets. Lloyd Shapley had developed theoretical methods to create stable matches in unstable markets. Alvin Roth had... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
    • 2010
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    The Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis

    By: Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis and Alvin J. Silk
    We address a longstanding puzzle surrounding the unbundling of services occurring over several decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: What accounts for the shift from bundling to unbundling of services and the slow pace of change? Using Evans and Salinger's... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising; Change; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Price; Analytics and Data Science; Surveys; Marketing Strategy; Media; Service Operations; Agency Theory; Mathematical Methods; Advertising Industry; United States
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    Arzaghi, Mohammad, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk. "The Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-039, September 2010.
    • July 2002
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    The Economist As Engineer: Game Theory, Experimental Economics and Computation As Tools of Design Economics

    By: Alvin E Roth
    Keywords: Game Theory; Economics; Mathematical Methods; Design
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    Roth, Alvin E. "The Economist As Engineer: Game Theory, Experimental Economics and Computation As Tools of Design Economics." Econometrica 70, no. 4 (July 2002): 1341–1378.
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    On Derivatives Markets and Social Welfare: A Theory of Empty Voting and Hidden Ownership

    By: Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
    In the past twenty-five years, derivatives markets have grown exponentially. Large, modern derivatives markets increasingly enable investors to hold economic interests in corporations without owning voting rights, and vice versa. This leads to both empty... View Details
    Keywords: Voting; Corporate Disclosure; Financial Markets; Ownership
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    Barry, Jordan M., John William Hatfield, and Scott Duke Kominers. "On Derivatives Markets and Social Welfare: A Theory of Empty Voting and Hidden Ownership." Virginia Law Review 99, no. 6 (October 2013): 1103–1168.
    • October 2017
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    The Size of the LGBT Population and the Magnitude of Anti-Gay Sentiment Are Substantially Underestimated

    By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Lucas C. Coffman and Keith M. Marzilli Ericson
    We demonstrate that widely used measures of anti-gay sentiment and the size of the LGBT population are misestimated, likely substantially. In a series of online experiments using a large and diverse but non-representative sample, we compare estimates from the standard... View Details
    Keywords: LGBTQ; Social Trends & Culture; Economic Theory; Prejudice; Prejudice and Bias; Diversity; Economics; Demographics
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    Coffman, Katherine Baldiga, Lucas C. Coffman, and Keith M. Marzilli Ericson. "The Size of the LGBT Population and the Magnitude of Anti-Gay Sentiment Are Substantially Underestimated." Management Science 63, no. 10 (October 2017): 3168–3186.
    • 2013
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    Capturing History: The Case of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927

    By: David Moss and Jonathan Lackow
    In the study of regulation (and political economy more generally), there is a danger that historical inferences from theory may infect historical tests of theory. It is imperative, therefore, that historical tests always involve a vigorous search not only for... View Details
    Keywords: Capture; History By Inference; Economic Theory Of Regulation; Federal Radio Commission; Theory; Economics; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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    Moss, David, and Jonathan Lackow. "Capturing History: The Case of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927." Chap. 8 in Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence and How to Limit It, edited by Daniel Carpenter and David Moss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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    Competitiveness & Economic Development - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    businesses to innovate and grow? Traditional economic theories fail to capture many of the underlying forces at work in today’s global economy. Competitiveness is the only way to achieve sustainable job... View Details
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