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- 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10
capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how these strategies emerge depending on the tradeoff between the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007
aspects of software design evolution in large-scale systems. Learning the Fine Art of Collaboration Authors:Alan MacCormack and Theodore Forbath Periodical:Forethought. Harvard Business Review (forthcoming): 10-11 Abstract Innovations are increasingly brought to the...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
ventures. We introduce a formal model of voting where agents face costly tacit information to improve their decision quality. Equilibrium outcomes suggest a theoretical tension for group decision-making between the benefits of information...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16
(and demand for redistribution) even if luck plays no role. In other words, there is multiplicity even if the equilibrium tax rate is independent of the signal-to-noise ratio (a quantity that expresses how important effort is, relative to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
show that the combination of preference for variety and consumption complementarities gives rise to (i) a commons problem (to better satisfy their individual preference for variety, users have an incentive to consume more applications than the number that maximizes...
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30
incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
selected was the only candidate considered. Far too few companies conduct reference checks; far too many rely on gut reactions when judging qualifications and cultural fit. Hardly anyone considers whether candidates will be good team...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23
are sufficiently large, a pure-strategy equilibrium exists where both B firms are active in the market. Although there is competition in the complement market, the monopoly Firm A may earn lower profits in this environment. Consequently,...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-057.pdf Optimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz An abstract is unavailable at this time....
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1
and 90%. Executives can dramatically increase their odds of success, the authors argue, if they understand how to select targets, how much to pay for them, and whether and how to integrate them. The most common reasons for making an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998) in that its assumptions ensure that there is an View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010
incentive to consume more applications than the social optimum to better satisfy their preference for variety); (2) an equilibrium selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016
Landvoigt Abstract—How does the shadow banking system respond to changes in the capital regulation of commercial banks? This paper builds a quantitative general equilibrium model with commercial banks and shadow banks to study the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12
Publication:Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (spring 2011) Abstract This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
the recipient would accept a low price in exchange for a side payment and selected larger numbers as their best guess of the likely proportion of recipients acting "unfairly." The results favor the hypothesis that people avoid...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
sequence resulting from an individual’s ability to select which task to complete next from a work queue. Using data from 91 physicians reading a total of more than 2.4 million radiological studies over a period of two and a half years, we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21
characterizes the financial world. They also overlook the role of natural selection. To be sure, natural selection in the financial world is not exactly analogous to the processes first described by Darwin and elaborated on by modern...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays uncertainty, and contingent-debt service. Our framework also recognizes that contingent debt can...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
number that maximizes joint utility); (ii) an equilibrium selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria, which result in different utility levels for the users); and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
maximizes joint utility); (2) an equilibrium selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria, which result in different utility levels for the users); and (3) a...
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