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    How Do Drug Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased?

    Drug copayment coupons to reduce patient cost-sharing have become nearly ubiquitous for high-priced brand-name prescription drugs. Medicare bans such coupons on the grounds that they are kickbacks that induce utilization, but they are commonly used by... View Details
    • 2011
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    The Impact of Horizontal Mergers and Acquisitions in Price Competition Models

    The question of what impact mergers and acquisitions have on key equilibrium performance measures is fundamental to our understanding of competitive dynamics in an oligopolistic industry. We address these questions in the context of price competition models with... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Cost; Price; Profit; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Performance Efficiency; Mathematical Methods; Competition
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    Federgruen, Awi, and Margaret P. Pierson. "The Impact of Horizontal Mergers and Acquisitions in Price Competition Models." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-031, October 2011.
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    Price as a Stimulus to Think: The Case for Willful Overpricing

    Consumers aware of a new benefit will often experience uncertainty about its personal relevance or usage value. This paper shows that the decision to deliberate further to resolve this uncertainty and reach a polarized judgment of personal relevance critically depends... View Details
    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect

    By: Amir E. Khandani, Andrew W. Lo and Robert C. Merton
    The confluence of three trends in the U.S. residential housing market-rising home prices, declining interest rates, and near-frictionless refinancing opportunities-led to vastly increased systemic risk in the financial system. Individually, each of these trends is... View Details
    Keywords: Equity; Mortgages; Interest Rates; Price; Housing; Risk and Uncertainty; United States
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    Khandani, Amir E., Andrew W. Lo, and Robert C. Merton. "Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-023, September 2009. (Revised July 2010.)
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    How Market Power Affects Dynamic Pricing: Evidence from Inventory Fluctuations at Car Dealerships

    By: Ayelet Israeli, Fiona Scott-Morton, Jorge Silva-Risso and Florian Zettelmeyer
    This paper investigates empirically the effect of market power on dynamic pricing in the presence of inventories. Our setting is the auto retail industry; we analyze how automotive dealerships adjust prices to inventory levels under varying degrees of market power. We... View Details
    Keywords: Dynamic Pricing; Market Power; Pricing; Price Discrimination; Inventory Production; Marketing; Price; Competitive Strategy; Auto Industry; Retail Industry
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    Israeli, Ayelet, Fiona Scott-Morton, Jorge Silva-Risso, and Florian Zettelmeyer. "How Market Power Affects Dynamic Pricing: Evidence from Inventory Fluctuations at Car Dealerships." Management Science 68, no. 2 (February 2022): 895–916.
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    How Do Households Suppress the Price of Tail Risk?

    By: Laurent Calvet, Claire Célérier, Gordon Liao and Boris Vallée
    This paper investigates the effects of the issuance of retail products with non-linear payoffs on option prices. For a given underlying asset, when the outstanding volume of products embedding a short-put position increases, implied volatility at the corresponding... View Details
    Keywords: Security Design; Dividend; Options; Structured Products; Market Segmentation; Financial Instruments; Design; Volatility; Markets; Segmentation
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    Calvet, Laurent, Claire Célérier, Gordon Liao, and Boris Vallée. "How Do Households Suppress the Price of Tail Risk?" Working Paper, 2025.
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    The Effects of Cryptocurrency Wealth on Household Consumption and Investment

    By: Darren Aiello, Scott R. Baker, Tetyana Balyuk, Marco Di Maggio, Mark J. Johnson and Jason Kotter
    This paper uses transaction-level data across millions of accounts to identify cryptocurrency investors and evaluate how fluctuations in individual crypto wealth affect household consumption, equity investment, and local real estate markets. We estimate an MPC out of... View Details
    Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Marginal Propensity To Consume; Household Balance Sheet; Real Estate; Etherium; Bitcoin; Investment; Housing; Spending
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    Aiello, Darren, Scott R. Baker, Tetyana Balyuk, Marco Di Maggio, Mark J. Johnson, and Jason Kotter. "The Effects of Cryptocurrency Wealth on Household Consumption and Investment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-077, June 2023.
    • 05 Mar 2009
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    CPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction

    Keywords: by Benjamin Edelman & Hoan Soo Lee
    • May 2024
    • Background Note

    Pricing Strategy and Channels of Distribution: Where Value Delivery and Value Capture Intersect

    By: Elie Ofek
    Channels of distribution are a critical component of a firm’s go-to-market strategy. A company may elect to sell its products directly to customers (DTC) without the assistance of any intermediaries or, alternatively, it may seek several channel partners to help it... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Distribution Channels; Business Strategy; Markets
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    Ofek, Elie. "Pricing Strategy and Channels of Distribution: Where Value Delivery and Value Capture Intersect." Harvard Business School Background Note 524-093, May 2024.
    • 08 Feb 2017
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    In Trump’s America, the Price of Speech and Silence

    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    An Empirical Examination of Business Climate Alliances: Effective and/or Harmful?

    By: Matteo Gasparini and Peter Tufano
    This research studies business alliances that seek to address climate change, offering empirical evidence to address claims advanced by alliance supporters and critics. We study eleven major alliances mostly focused on financial services firms and 424 major... View Details
    Keywords: Antitrust; Climate Change; Financial Institutions; Competition; Network Effects; Alliances
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    Gasparini, Matteo, and Peter Tufano. "An Empirical Examination of Business Climate Alliances: Effective and/or Harmful?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-060, May 2025.
    • 2024
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    Effects of a Real-Time Information-Based Intervention on Physician Prescribing Behavior

    By: Olivia Zhao and Anna D Sinaiko
    High out-of-pocket (OOP) prices for prescription drugs create financial difficulties for patients, and cost-related underuse of medications can adversely patient health. Simultaneously, many physicians report a willingness to address affordability concerns with... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Health Care and Treatment; Communication Technology; Technology Adoption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Health Industry
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    Zhao, Olivia, and Anna D Sinaiko. "Effects of a Real-Time Information-Based Intervention on Physician Prescribing Behavior." Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings 2024, no. 1 (2024).
    • 24 Apr 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

    locations. “It’s not about just the markup, which, to some extent, is just a temporary effect,” Cavallo says. “If competition with Amazon changes the way firms such as Walmart or Best Buy make pricing decisions, it can have much... View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail
    • 25 Aug 2018
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    The Other Amazon Effect: How Prices Have Become Less Insulated From Supply Shocks

    • 2009
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    Technology Innovation and Diffusion as Sources of Output and Asset Price Fluctuations

    By: Diego A. Comin, Mark Gertler and Ana Maria Santacreu
    We develop a model in which innovations in an economy's growth potential are an important driving force of the business cycle. The framework shares the emphasis of the recent "new shock" literature on revisions of beliefs about the future as a source of fluctuations,... View Details
    Keywords: Business Cycles; Economic Growth; Asset Pricing; Technological Innovation; Mathematical Methods; System Shocks; Technology Adoption
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    Comin, Diego A., Mark Gertler, and Ana Maria Santacreu. "Technology Innovation and Diffusion as Sources of Output and Asset Price Fluctuations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-134, May 2009. (Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Political Economy.)
    • 09 Sep 2011
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    Quantity vs. Quality: Exclusion by Platforms with Network Effects

    Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Technology
    • 2020
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    Dog Eat Dog: Balancing Network Effects and Differentiation in a Digital Platform Merger

    By: Chiara Farronato, Jessica Fong and Andrey Fradkin
    Digital platforms are increasingly the subject of regulatory scrutiny. In comparison to multiple competitors, a single platform may increase consumer welfare if network effects are large or may decrease welfare due to higher prices or reduction in platform variety. We... View Details
    Keywords: Platform Differentiation; Digital Platforms; Network Effects; Measurement and Metrics; Mergers and Acquisitions; Outcome or Result
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    Farronato, Chiara, Jessica Fong, and Andrey Fradkin. "Dog Eat Dog: Balancing Network Effects and Differentiation in a Digital Platform Merger." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28047, November 2020.
    • January 2024
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    Dog Eat Dog: Balancing Network Effects and Differentiation in a Digital Platform Merger

    By: Chiara Farronato, Jessica Fong and Andrey Fradkin
    Digital platforms are increasingly the subject of regulatory scrutiny. In comparison to multiple competitors, a single platform may increase consumer welfare if network effects are large or may decrease welfare due to higher prices or reduction in platform variety. We... View Details
    Keywords: Platform Differentiation; Digital Platforms; Network Effects; Measurement and Metrics; Mergers and Acquisitions; Outcome or Result
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    Farronato, Chiara, Jessica Fong, and Andrey Fradkin. "Dog Eat Dog: Balancing Network Effects and Differentiation in a Digital Platform Merger." Management Science 70, no. 1 (January 2024): 464–483.
    • 02 Jul 2009
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    Technology Innovation and Diffusion as Sources of Output and Asset Price Fluctuations

    Keywords: by Diego A. Comin, Mark Gertler & Ana Maria Santacreu; Technology
    • 2002
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    The Effect of Editorial Discretion Book Promotion on Sales at Amazon.com

    By: Benjamin Edelman
    A new dataset collected by the author allows estimation of the effect on book sales of promotional listing on Amazon's editorial discretion pages. Following Goolsbee and Chevalier (2001), sales quantities are inferred from sales rank data freely available on Amazon's... View Details
    Keywords: Online Advertising; Sales; Marketing Strategy; Web Sites; Competition; Books
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    Edelman, Benjamin. "The Effect of Editorial Discretion Book Promotion on Sales at Amazon.com." 2002. (Winner of Seymour E. and Ruth B. Harris Prize for outstanding senior honors thesis in economics. Winner of Thomas T. Hoopes Prize awarded for outstanding scholarly work or research.)
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