Publications

2017
Working Paper

Lone Wolves in Competitive Equilibria

By: Ravi Jagadeesan, Scott Duke Kominers and Ross Rheingans-Yoo

This paper develops a class of equilibrium-independent predictions of competitive equilibrium with indivisibilities. Specifically, we prove an analogue of the “Lone Wolf Theorem” of classical matching theory, showing that when utility is perfectly transferable, any... View Details

Keywords: Indivisibilities; Matching; Lone Wolf Theorem; Marketplace Matching; Theory

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April 1988
Article

Service Sangyou ni okeru Kyousou: sono Rironteki Framework (Competition in Global Industries: a Theoretical Framework)

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ryoko Tohyama

Keywords: Competition; Theory; Framework

01 Apr 1989
Conference Presentation

The Future of Bureaucracy and Hierarchy in Organizational Theory: A Report from the Field

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Theory; Organizational Structure

17 Apr 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Poverty and Crime: Evidence from Rainfall and Trade Shocks in India

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer & Petia Topalova

22 Dec 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Future Lock-in: Or, I’ll Agree to Do the Right Thing...Next Week

Keywords: by Todd Rogers & Max H. Bazerman

18 Oct 2006
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Racial Diversity Initiatives in Professional Service Firms: What Factors Differentiate Successful from Unsuccessful Initiatives?

Keywords: by Modupe Akinola & David A. Thomas; Service

1992
Working Paper

Employment versus Sub-Contracting: The Real Trade-Offs

By: Amar Bhide and Howard Stevenson

By many accounts, sub-contracting is in the vogue while traditional employment relationships are on the outs. Ten years ago free-lancers, independent subcontractors and the like accounted for about 10 percent of the labor force; today they constitute 25 percent. Of the... View Details

Keywords: Sub-contracting; Freelancers; Employment; Organizations; Theory

October 2020
Article

Collusion in Markets with Syndication

By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Richard Lowery and Jordan M. Barry

Markets for IPOs and debt issuances are syndicated, in the sense that a bidder who wins a contract may invite losing bidders to join a syndicate that together fulfills the contract. We show that in markets with syndication, standard intuitions from industrial... View Details

Keywords: Collusion; Antitrust; IPO Underwriting; Syndication; ＂Repeated Games＂; Markets; Game Theory

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1982
Article

The Contraction Mapping Approach to the Perron-Frobenius Theory: Why Hilbert's Metric?

By: Elon Kohlberg and John W. Pratt

Keywords: Theory; Measurement and Metrics

03 Mar 2017
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Cooperative Strategic Games

Keywords: by Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman; Education

19 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

As Major League Baseball camps reawaken for spring training over the next few weeks, the same scene will repeat across the country: A pitcher will take the mound. A batter will stare back. And behind him, an umpire will tense in anticipation, ready to call a ball or a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing

1978
Book

Equity Valuation: Models, Analysis and Implications

By: David Hawkins and Walter J. Campbell

Keywords: Equity; Valuation; Theory

05 Apr 2011
Working Paper Summaries

The Power of Political Voice: Women’s Political Representation and Crime in India

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Anandi Mani, Prachi Mishra & Petia Topalova

25 Mar 2008
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Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship

Keywords: by Corinne Bendersky & Kathleen L. McGinn; Education

1996
Article

Evidence to Support the Componential Model of Creativity: Secondary Analyses of Three Studies

By: R. Conti, H. Coon and T. M. Amabile

Amabile's (1983a, 1983b, 1988) componential model of creativity predicts that three major components contribute to creativity: skills specific to the task domain, general (cross-domain) creativity-relevant skills, and task motivation. If all three components actually... View Details

Keywords: Theory; Creativity; Research

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2019
Working Paper

Understanding Different Approaches to Benefit-Based Taxation

By: Robert Scherf and Matthew C. Weinzierl

The normative principle of benefit-based taxation has exerted substantial influence on many areas of public finance, but it has been largely set aside in the modern theoretical approach to optimal income taxation, where welfarist objectives dominate. A prerequisite for... View Details

Keywords: Benefit-based Taxation; Taxation; Theory

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