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    • Competing with Privacy 

      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Hervas-Drane, Andres (INFORMS, 2014-10-24)
      We analyze the implications of consumer privacy for competition in the marketplace. We consider a market where firms set prices and disclosure levels for consumer information, and consumers observe both before deciding ...
    • Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices 

      Bennett, Victor Manuel; Pierce, Lamar; Snyder, Jason A.; Toffel, Michael Wayne (INFORMS, 2013)
      Competition among firms yields many benefits but can also encourage firms to engage in corrupt or unethical activities. We argue that competition can lead organizations to provide services that customers demand but that ...
    • Does Planning Regulation Protect Independent Retailers? 

      Sadun, Raffaella (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2015-07-16)
      Regulations aimed at curbing the entry of large retail stores have been introduced in many countries to protect independent retailers. Analyzing a planning reform launched in the United Kingdom in the 1990s, I show that ...
    • Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud 

      Luca, Michael; Zervas, Georgios (INFORMS, 2015-09-29)
      Consumer reviews are now part of everyday decision making. Yet, the credibility of these reviews is fundamentally undermined when businesses commit review fraud, creating fake reviews for themselves or their competitors. ...
    • From Russia with love: the impact of relocated firms on incumbent survival 

      Falck, Oliver; Guenther, Christina; Heblich, Stephan; Kerr, William Robert (Oxford, 2012-11-30)
      We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi-natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied ...
    • The Impact of the Entry of Biosimilars: Evidence from Europe 

      Scott Morton, Fiona M.; Stern, Ariel Dora; Stern, Scott (Springer Nature, 2018-04-25)
      Biologics represent a substantial and growing share of the U.S. drug market. Traditional “small molecule” generics quickly erode the price and share of the branded product upon entry; however, only a few biosimilars have ...
    • Power, Competitiveness, and Advice Taking: Why the Powerful Don't Listen 

      Tost, Leigh Plunkett; Gino, Francesca; Larrick, Richard P. (Elsevier, 2012)
      Four experiments test the prediction that feelings of power lead individuals to discount advice received from both experts and novices. Experiment 1 documents a negative relationship between subjective feelings of power ...
    • The Price of Diversifiable Risk in Venture Capital and Private Equity 

      Ewens, Michael; Jones, Charles; Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013)
      This paper explores the private equity and venture capital (VC) markets and extends the standard principal-agent problem between the investors and venture capitalist to show how it alters the interaction between the venture ...
    • Search Diversion and Platform Competition 

      Hagiu, Andrei; Jullien, Bruno (Elsevier, 2014)
      Platforms use search diversion in order to trade off total consumer traffic for higher revenues derived by exposing consumers to unsolicited products (e.g., advertising). We show that competition between platforms leads ...
    • What Factors Drive Analyst Forecasts? 

      Groysberg, Boris; Healy, Paul Murray; Nohria, Nitin; Serafeim, Georgios (2011)
      A firm's competitive environment, its strategic choices, and its internal capabilities are considered important determinants of its future performance. Yet there is little evidence on whether analysts' forecasts of firm ...