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- 14 Jan 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Optimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions
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by Benjamin G. Edelman & Michael Schwarz
- 01 Feb 2019
- HBS Seminar
Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics
- 30 Sep 2013
- News
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
- 2021
- Working Paper
Diagnosing Quality: Learning, Amenities, and the Demand for Health Care
By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Emilio Gutierrez, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
We study the role of amenities in increasing demand for underutilized healthcare services. We evaluate the offer of a high-amenity diagnostic consultation for cataracts with a randomized price and find that a lower price for the high-amenity consultation increases...
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Keywords:
Health Care Demand;
Amenities;
Health Care Quality;
Cataracts;
Surgery;
Health Care and Treatment;
Demand and Consumers;
Quality;
Learning;
Mexico
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Emilio Gutierrez, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo. "Diagnosing Quality: Learning, Amenities, and the Demand for Health Care." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-110, March 2021.
Jonathan L. Wallen
Jonathan Wallen is an Assistant Professor of Finance in the Finance Unit and teaches Finance 1 to MBA students.
Professor Wallen’s research centers on financial intermediation and its intersection with asset pricing, currency markets,...
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- November 2021
- Article
A Salient Sugar Tax Decreases Sugary Drink Buying
By: Grant E. Donnelly, Paige Guge, Ryan Howell and Leslie John
Many governments have introduced sugary drink excise taxes to reduce purchasing and consumption of such drinks; however, they do not typically stipulate how such taxes should be communicated at point-of-purchase. Historical, field, and experimental data entailing over...
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Keywords:
Decision-making;
Open Data;
Open Materials;
Preregistered;
Health;
Policy;
Taxation;
Consumer Behavior;
Decision Making
Donnelly, Grant E., Paige Guge, Ryan Howell, and Leslie John. "A Salient Sugar Tax Decreases Sugary Drink Buying." Psychological Science 32, no. 11 (November 2021): 1830–1841.
- May 2014
- Article
Information and Two-Sided Platform Profits
By: Andrei Hagiu and Hanna Halaburda
We study the effect of different levels of information on two-sided platform profits under monopoly and competition. One side (developers) is always informed about all prices and therefore forms responsive expectations. In contrast, we allow the other side (users) to...
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Keywords:
Responsive Expectations;
Passive Expectations;
Wary Expectations;
Information;
Performance Expectations;
Two-Sided Platforms;
Monopoly
Hagiu, Andrei, and Hanna Halaburda. "Information and Two-Sided Platform Profits." International Journal of Industrial Organization 34 (May 2014): 25–35.
- December 2001
- Exercise
Exercise on Employee Stock Option Dilution
By: Brian J. Hall
Discusses the effects of option dilution on stock prices and shareholder value. To simplify the example and isolate the complexity of option dilution, we make a number of simplifying assumptions.
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Keywords:
Stocks;
Price;
Employee Stock Ownership Plan;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Complexity;
Value
Hall, Brian J. "Exercise on Employee Stock Option Dilution." Harvard Business School Exercise 902-162, December 2001.
Andi Wang
Andi Wang is a doctoral student in the Business Economics program, where he works at the intersection of finance, macro and behavioral economics. He is partiularly interested in studying institutional and behavioral frictions that have long-lasting effects on asset... View Details
- July 1989 (Revised May 2004)
- Case
Colonial Homes
By: David E. Bell
Colonial Homes supplies a complete raw materials package to build entire homes. The price of the package is guaranteed at the signing of the sales contract, while delivery (and payment) are not effected for up to six months. In an effort to reduce its exposure to...
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Keywords:
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Contracts;
Price;
Price Bubble;
Fluctuation;
Monopoly;
Problems and Challenges;
Sales;
Accommodations Industry;
Real Estate Industry
Bell, David E. "Colonial Homes." Harvard Business School Case 190-008, July 1989. (Revised May 2004.)
- June 2024
- Article
Real Growth in Space Manufacturing Output Substantially Exceeds Growth in the Overall Space Economy
By: Tina Highfill and Matthew Weinzierl
Accurately measuring real economic output in the space economy is made difficult by the rapid increase in capabilities and decrease in prices of launch and satellite technologies achieved over the past two decades. Nominal measures of output in space will tend to...
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Highfill, Tina, and Matthew Weinzierl. "Real Growth in Space Manufacturing Output Substantially Exceeds Growth in the Overall Space Economy." Acta Astronautica 219 (June 2024): 236–242.
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
Working PapersThe Framing Effect of Price Format Marco Bertini and Luc Wathieu Existing evidence suggests that preferences are affected by whether a price is presented as one...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2024
- HBS Seminar
Szu-Chi Huang, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- April 2003
- Article
The Role of Wages and Auditing during a Crackdown on Corruption in the City of Buenos Aires
By: Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky
We study the prices paid for basic inputs during a crackdown on corruption in the public hospitals of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, during 1996 97. We find a well-defined, negative effect on the measures used to capture corruption. Prices paid by hospitals for...
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Di Tella, Rafael, and Ernesto Schargrodsky. "The Role of Wages and Auditing during a Crackdown on Corruption in the City of Buenos Aires." Journal of Law & Economics 46, no. 1 (April 2003): 269–92.
- June 2008
- Article
'Thar' She Blows: Can Bubbles Be Rekindled with Experienced Subjects?
By: Reshmaan Hussam, David Porter and Vernon Smith
We report 28 new experiment sessions consisting of up to three experience levels to examine the robustness of learning and “error” elimination among participants in a laboratory asset market and its effect on price bubbles. Our answer to the title question is: “yes.”...
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Hussam, Reshmaan, David Porter, and Vernon Smith. "'Thar' She Blows: Can Bubbles Be Rekindled with Experienced Subjects?" American Economic Review 98, no. 3 (June 2008): 924–937.
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
for a home water purification solution results in more use of the product. Our methodology separates the screening effect of prices (charging more changes the mix of buyers) from the causal View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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On the Causality and Cause of Returns to Organizational Status: Evidence from the Grands Crus Classés of the Médoc
By: Daniel Malter
This paper identifies the causal symbolic effect of status on the prices organizations charge for their products. I exploit the classification of the châteaux of the Médoc, which sorted 61 wine producers into five growth classes in 1855, as a fixed hierarchical symbol...
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Keywords:
Organizational Status;
Quality Signals;
Conspicuous Consumption;
Wine Classification Of 1855;
Grand Cru;
Status and Position;
Quality;
Reputation;
Price;
France
Malter, Daniel. "On the Causality and Cause of Returns to Organizational Status: Evidence from the Grands Crus Classés of the Médoc." Administrative Science Quarterly 59, no. 2 (June 2014): 271–300.
- June 2016
- Article
Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios under Emissions Regulation
By: David Drake, Paul R. Kleindorfer and Luk N. Van Wassenhove
We study the impact of emissions tax and emissions cap-and-trade regulation on a firm's technology choice and capacity decisions. We show that emissions price uncertainty under cap-and-trade results in greater expected profit than a constant emissions price under an...
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Keywords:
Technology Management;
Management;
Technology;
Service Operations;
Environmental Sustainability
Drake, David, Paul R. Kleindorfer, and Luk N. Van Wassenhove. "Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios under Emissions Regulation." Production and Operations Management 25, no. 6 (June 2016): 1006–1025. (Runner up, Wickham Skinner Award for the best paper published in Production and Operations Management during 2016.)
- Article
Large Banks and Small Firm Lending
By: Vitaly Bord, Victoria Ivashina and Ryan D. Taliaferro
We examine the long-lasting effects of the 2007 real estate price collapse on small business credit supply. Banks affected by the decline in real estate prices systematically contracted their credit to small firms. At the same time, regional and local banks, many of...
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Keywords:
Small Firms;
Credit Supply;
Banking Competition;
Small Business;
Credit;
Financial Crisis;
Banks and Banking;
Competition
Bord, Vitaly, Victoria Ivashina, and Ryan D. Taliaferro. "Large Banks and Small Firm Lending." Journal of Financial Intermediation 48 (October 2021).
- 17 Apr 2015
- HBS Seminar