Professor Alvin Roth - Publications - Faculty & Research

Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details

Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal

incumbent advantage. But did it really? As Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth and Texas A&M professor Brit Grosskopf demonstrate... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Construction; Real Estate; Entertainment & Recreation

18 Sep 2008
Working Paper Summaries

The Internalization of Advertising Services: An Inter-Industry Analysis

Keywords: by Sharon Horsky, Steven C. Michael & Alvin J. Silk; Advertising

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

Beware of competitors lying in the grass, says Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth. His study of bidding practices on eBay suggest that those who wait until the last minute to bid—a practice... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology

June 2008
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Kidney Matchmakers

By: Brian J. Hall and Nicole Bennett

In this case we look at the design and development of an unconventional market, where neither money nor traditional "goods" are exchanged. Kidney exchange is an idea pioneered by HBS professor and market designer Alvin Roth and a small group of innovative doctors. This... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Disruptive Innovation; Market Design; Market Transactions; Value Creation; Health Industry

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30 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

Unfair. Undignified. Inappropriate, unprofessional, distasteful—and most of all, repugnant. To the wonder and surprise of Alvin E. Roth, a Harvard economist, these harsh words are often hoisted to describe an important task of his:... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

quality of games is that, thanks to tweaks in the design of postseason matchups, teams at the highest championship level more often find themselves facing their true competitive counterparts. It was not always so. Until 1992, as HBS economist View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

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... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

of the study, Alvin Silk, Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus, and Joel Weissman, associate professor, department of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School. The Physicians Report ran... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions

Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets

Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchanges

Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation

Don’t Take ‘No’ for an Answer: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations

Strategy-Proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match

College Admissions as Non-Price Competition: The Case of South Korea

The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

The Need for (Long) Chains in Kidney Exchange

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

Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency

Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?