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  • 1984
  • Working Paper

Earnings Variability and Variance Bounds Tests for Rationality of Stock Market Prices

By: Robert C. Merton and Terry A. Marsh
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  • 1983
  • Working Paper

Aggregate Dividend Behavior and Its Implications for Tests of Stock Market Rationality

By: Terry A. Marsh and Robert C. Merton
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Wage-Employment Contracts

By: Jerry R. Green and Charles M. Kahn
This paper studies the efficient agreements about the dependence of workers' earnings on employment, when the employment level is controlled by firms. The firms' superior information about profitability conditions is responsible for this form of contract governance.... View Details
Keywords: Labor; Wages; Contracts
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Variance-Minimizing Monetary Policies with Lagged Price Adjustment and Rational Expectations

By: Jerry R. Green and Seppo Honkapohja
This paper considers a macroeconomic model with rational expectations in which prices are incompletely flexible. Markets therefore fail to clear. In such a model monetary policy is not neutral. The variance of real and nominal quantities and interest rates is sensitive... View Details
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  • June 1982 (Revised May 1995)
  • Case

Ellis Manufacturing Co.

By: Roy D. Shapiro
Ellis finds itself in a weakening competitive position largely due to the lack of rationalization in its plants. Driven by a strong traditionally decentralized sales organization, Ellis finds that all plants want control over all product lines. As a result, overall... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Cost; Analytics and Data Science; Brands and Branding; Performance Capacity; Competitive Strategy; Construction Industry
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  • 1980
  • Chapter

The Nash Solution as a Model of Rational Bargaining

By: A. E. Roth
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Negotiation Style
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  • 1977
  • Article

Individual Rationality and Nash's Solution to the Bargaining Problem

By: A. E. Roth
Keywords: Negotiation; Problems and Challenges
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The Question of Collective Rationality in Professor Gale's Model of Trade Imbalance

By: Jerry R. Green
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  • spring 1973
  • Article

Theory of Rational Option Pricing

By: Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Theory; Price
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  • 1969
  • Other Unpublished Work

An Empirical Investigation of the Samuelson Rational Warrant Pricing Theory

By: Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Price
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  • 1968
  • Mimeo

Restrictions on Rational Option Pricing: A Set of Arbitrage Conditions

By: Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Stock Options; Valuation; Trade
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Choice, Rationality and Welfare Measurement

By: Jerry R. Green
For the past century, economists have used the hypothesis that individual choice is based on rationality in their calculations of individual and collective welfare. The central ideas are that actual market choice reveal underlying preferences, and with a good set of... View Details
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Consumer Decision Making and Behavioral Research

By: John T. Gourville

John Gourville’s research focuses on consumer behavior, especially in the areas of pricing and consumer decision making. In the area of pricing, for instance, he has looked at the role of time on how consumers interpret and react to product costs and prices.... View Details

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Cost Management and Management Control Systems in Hospitals

By: V.G. Narayanan

 Hospitals tend not to have very good cost accounting and control systems. More broadly,  there is enormous opportunity for managing costs and aligning incentives in the health care industry. I am studying how cost accounting methods can be used to... View Details

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Decision Making Under Uncertainty

By: David E. Bell

Many of the decisions we face are made complicated by having uncertain consequences: how should I set my inventory when I don’t know what demand will be, should I refinance my mortgage when rates might go lower, how big a bet shall I make in a new business, and so... View Details

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Incommensurable Values and Rational Decision Making

By: Nien-he Hsieh
Rational decision making is widely thought to require comparing alternatives with respect to a single measure of value. Accordingly, asking managers to consider values in addition to economic efficiency has been criticized on the grounds that doing so violates the... View Details
  • 2024
  • Dictionary Entry

Jerry R. Green (1946-)

By: Eddie Dekel, John Geanakoplos and Scott Duke Kominers
Jerry Green has a deep and long-standing connection to Harvard University, and in particular with its Economics Department. This paper begins by reviewing his intellectual background, and then turns to exploring how he has influenced scholars through his wide-ranging... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Microeconomics; Theory; History; Game Theory; Decision Choices and Conditions; Education Industry; North America; United States; Cambridge; Massachusetts; Boston
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Overview

By: John T. Gourville
John's research focuses on behavioral decision theory, which studies all the ways in which people systematically deviate from rational decision making. To date, his work has looked at the ways in which people irrationally respond to pricing, to product portfolios, and... View Details
Keywords: Marketing
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Overview

By: Nien-he Hsieh
Professor Hsieh’s research concerns ethical issues in business and the responsibilities of global business leaders. His work centers on the question of whether and how managers ought to be guided not only by considerations of economic efficiency, but also by values... View Details
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Social Choice and Voting Rules

By: Jerry R. Green

This research program is based on the idea that good voting systems should take into account the frequency with which different choice problems arise. Traditional social choice theory requires properties over a fixed domain of choice problems but does not offer the... View Details

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