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Improving Channel Coordination through Franchising
In this paper, we explore the role of franchising arrangements in improving the coordination between channel members. In particular we focus on two elements of the franchising contract, namely, the royalty structure and the monitoring technology…
In Honor of Sandy Grossman, Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal
Information Aggregation in an Experimental Market
Although the rational expectations hypothesis is widely applied in asset pricing models with differentially informed traders, the extent to which markets actually aggregate and transmit information is an open question. In this study we report the…
Is Negative Voting an Artifact?
Negative voting occurs when voters respond more strongly to political actions or outcomes they oppose than to comparable actions or outcomes they favor. This paper discusses the possibility that negative voting is an artifact. We develop a simple…
Longer Trading Periods in the Townsend Turnpike Model
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Measuring Organizational Culture: Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
A Model Of Optimal Equilibrium Growth
Our aim in these notes is to exposit a model of optimal equilibrium growth. The model is strictly in the Solow tradition. The model has two features which distinguish it from most other work on the subject. These are, first, that the model is…
Modeling the Role of Risk-Adjusted Utility in the Diffusion of Innovation
The authors present a diffusion model in which individual consumers adopt an innovation if its risk-adjusted utility exceeds a reservation utility threshold. This threshold may be a function of innovativeness and existing product holdings. As the…
Monopoly Profits Under Free Entry With Very Impatient Players
This paper studies markets with free entry and costless capacity in which firms are allowed to set their prices (or quantities) after observing the capacities of other firms. It finds that in these markets with free entry, no sunk costs, no entry…
Nash Equilibria and Collusive Effects through Price Dispersion in Duopolies
In this paper we analyze pricing strategies of firms that compete for the demand of an assortment of goods. In particular, we model the competition between two symmetric firms in a market that consists of two types of consumers, each of which may…
Nearly Redundant Parameters and Measures of Persistence in Economic Time Series
Many economic time series are nonstationary, apparently exhibiting persistent cycles around a smoothly growing trend. First-differencing removes the nonstationarity, but creates another problem: near parameter redundancy. This paper explores the…
A Note on Exact Solution of Partially Observed Markov Decision Processes
This note points out an error in the only published algorithm for exact solution of partially observed Markov decision processes. The major insights and contributions of the original work remain intact, and the error can be remedied, albeit at…
On the Competitive Pressure Created by the Diffusion of Innovations
We consider the decision of a dominant firm to adopt (part or all of) a sequence of potential cost-reducing innovations, as well as the precise time sequence of adoption, when a fixed cost must be incurred at the date of adoption, and the latest…
On the Robustness of Equilibrium Refinements
Optimal Inspection, Lot Sizing and Setup Reduction
Porteus, and Rosenblatt and Lee have recently developed models in which process quality and lot sizing interact. Lot sizes should be reduced to compensate for poor quality. Investment in setup time reduction leads to even smaller lot sizes and…
Organization Development: Theory, Practice and Research
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Organizational Cultures and the Denial, Channeling, and Acknowledgment of Ambiguity
This document explores the relationship between ambiguity and the ambiguous concept of culture which is of fundamental interest to organizational culture researchers. After an overview of the topic, a matrix framework for understanding different…
Particularistic and Universalistic Evaluation in the Social Comparison Process
In this article we argue that people are motivated to evaluate both the universalistic and particularistic standing of their abilities. One’s universalistic standing is assessed by comparing with others who are similar to…