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- November 2020
- Article
Taxation in Matching Markets
By: Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Sonia Jaffe and Scott Duke Kominers
We analyze the effects of taxation in two-sided matching markets, i.e., markets in which all agents have heterogeneous preferences over potential partners. In matching markets, taxes can generate inefficiency on the allocative margin by changing who is matched to whom,...
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Dupuy, Arnaud, Alfred Galichon, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Taxation in Matching Markets." International Economic Review 61, no. 4 (November 2020): 1591–1634.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services
By: Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis and Alvin J. Silk
This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the unbundling of services that has occurredover more than two decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: How can the shift from the bundling to the unbundling of services be explained and what accounts for the...
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Transformation;
Framework;
Service Operations;
Decisions;
Relationships;
Price;
Diversification;
Geography;
Cost;
Advertising Industry;
United States
Arzaghi, Mohammad, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk. "Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14345, September 2008.
- Summer 2012
- Article
Epistemic Contests and the Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization: The Brazil–USA Cotton Dispute and the Incremental Balancing of Interests
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
The World Trade Organization (WTO) features prominently in studies of international institutions, often cast either as a tool of rich-world domination over the poorer South or as a neutral mediator facilitating a tariff-free world of economic prosperity. This article...
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Keywords:
Organizations;
Trade;
Conflict and Resolution;
Consumer Products Industry;
Brazil;
United States
Daemmrich, Arthur A. "Epistemic Contests and the Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization: The Brazil–USA Cotton Dispute and the Incremental Balancing of Interests." Special Issue on Dispute Settlement at the WTO. Trade, Law and Development 4, no. 1 (Summer 2012): 200–240.
- Research Summary
Overview
ECONOMICS OF THE ADVERTISING AND MARKETING SERVICEC INDUSTRY
Professor Silk’s recent research has been focused on the economics of the advertising and marketing services industry. He has conducted econometric studies of the effects of scale and scope on the... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
consumers large discounts when they prepay for participating firms' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a discount voucher service can benefit affiliated firms: price...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
specific data and econometric approach used (Rodriguez/Rodrik, 2000; Median-Smith, 2001). There are also questions as to whether the relationship between specific trade policy instruments such as tariffs and growth has not been stable...
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by Christian Ketels
- 26 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Clayton M. Christensen, Acclaimed Author and Teacher, Dies At 67
Christensen joined the HBS faculty in 1992. He earned a B.A. with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young University (1975); an M.Phil. in applied econometrics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar (1977);...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
Susanna, Ranjani Krishnan, and Jeffrey M. Wooldridge Abstract—Bounded dependent variables are frequently encountered in settings of interest for accounting researchers. The econometric modeling of these...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
Working PapersParallel Search, Incentives and Problem Type: Revisiting the Competition and Innovation Link Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera, and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract This paper presents econometric evidence of two...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
those data using an econometric model that relates the growth in online music buying to the revenues per bundle. Q: Could we have real-world definitions of what you mean by bundle, pure bundle, mixed bundle,...
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- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
essential research tools—Markov decision process, game theory and information economics, queueing games, econometric methods, and data science—by illustrating their uses and applicability on examples from diverse healthcare settings, thus...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
basis of expertise and the design of econometric models. This article provides insights on the resolution of disputes in global trade while contributing to our understanding of the evolving role of scientific and View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
Journal of Econometrics Scenario Generation for Long Run Interest Rate Risk Assessment By: Engle, Robert F., Guillaume Roussellet, and Emil N. Siriwardane Abstract—We propose a statistical model of the term...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
firms in the past, and also by reviewing more theoretical approaches developed by academia. The framework works in two parts. In part one, the manager estimates a model of demand. In part two, the estimates are plugged into an...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
valuations in first financing rounds. Further econometric tests suggest that, as predicted by the theory, this effect is driven by unobservable heterogeneity, and it is more pronounced in teams that make quick decisions about founder...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
letter actually getting to his friend—there were six referrals. This idea has passed into popular culture and urban folklore as the six degrees of separation. That's where it lay until a decade ago when a few researchers out of the Santa Fe Institute formalized the...
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- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
18 months. Because of differences in operational infrastructure, the companies varied in how often they updated prices on their websites: two changed their prices hourly or faster, one updated its prices daily, and two updated prices weekly. Through View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
advertiser of establishing a relationship with an agency and pecuniary economies of scale available from providing media services. The key predictions of the model are supported by an econometric analysis of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
Abstract—Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We develop a theoretical View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
they become bullish about stocks. These sentiment waves correct themselves, and fundamentals prevail in the long run.” Viceira and his colleagues used a complex econometric model to determine which of these...
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