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作者：Feigenbaum, Itai; Kanoria, Yash; Lo, Irene; Sethuraman, Jay
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System; Lehman College (CUNY); City University of New York (CUNY) System; Columbia University; Stanford University; Columbia University
摘要：In the school choice market, where scarce public school seats are assigned to students, a key operational issue is how to reassign seats that are vacated after an initial round of centralized assignment. Practical solutions to the reassignment problem must be simple to implement, truthful, and efficient while also alleviating costly student movement between schools. We propose and axiomatically justify a class of reassignment mechanisms, the permuted lottery deferred acceptance (PLDA) mechanis...
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作者：Susarla, Anjana; Holzhacker, Martin; Krishnan, Ranjani
作者单位：Michigan State University
摘要：Interfirm contracts are plagued by opportunism arising from exchange hazards that increase the seller's gains from holdup in fixed price contracts. These exchange hazards are higher when the seller can engage in unverifiable deliberate obfuscation. Although cost-plus contracts reduce holdup losses, they suffer from cost inefficiency. Past research has underscored the importance of trust as a control instrument to mitigate losses from exchange hazards, especially social relational trust that de...
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作者：Kabra, Ashish; Belavina, Elena; Girotra, Karan
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Cornell University
摘要：The cities of Paris, London, Chicago, and New York (among many others) have set up bike-share systems to facilitate the use of bicycles for urban commuting. This paper estimates the impact of two facets of system performance on bike-share ridership: accessibility (how far the user must walk to reach stations) and bike-availability (the like-lihood of finding a bicycle). We obtain these estimates from a structural demand model for ridership estimated using data from the Velib' system in Paris. ...
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作者：Chu, Leon Yang; Nazerzadeh, Hamid; Zhang, Heng
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：Online e-commerce platforms, such as Amazon and Taobao, connect thousands of sellers and consumers every day. In this work, we study how such platforms should rank products displayed to consumers and utilize the top and most salient slots. We present a model that considers consumers' search costs and the externalities sellers im-pose on each other. This model allows us to study a multiobjective optimization, whose objective includes consumer and seller surplus as well as the sales revenue, and...
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作者：Lu, Shijie; Wang, Xin (Shane); Bendle, Neil
作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston; Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：Anecdotal evidence suggests that counterfeiting /piracy can help create online word of mouth (WOM) and through this boost demand, but how powerful is such WOM? To answer this question, we conduct a descriptive study with some attempts to establish near causality. We estimate the impact of piracy on WOM and ultimately revenue by applying a panel data method to all movies widely released in the United States from 2015 to 2017. In identifying the effects of piracy we make inventive use of Russian...
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作者：Acquisti, Alessandro; Fong, Christina
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：We investigate whether personal information posted by job candidates on social media sites is sought and used by prospective U.S. employers. We create profiles for job candidates on popular social networks, manipulating information protected under U.S. laws, and submit job applications on their behalf to more than 4,000 employers. We estimate employer search activity and bias in interview callbacks. We find evidence of employers searching online for the candidates. At the national level, we fi...
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作者：Wang, Shan; Liu, Nan; Wan, Guohua
作者单位：Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Boston College
摘要：Despite the prevalence and significance of walk-ins in healthcare, we know relatively little about how to plan and manage the daily operations of a healthcare facility that accepts both scheduled and walk-in patients. In this paper, we take a data-analytics approach and develop an optimization model to determine the optimal appointment schedule in the presence of potential walk-ins. Our model is the first known approach that can jointly handle general walk-in processes and heterogeneous, time-...
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作者：von Essen, Emma; Huysentruyt, Marieke; Miettinen, Topi
作者单位：Aarhus University; Stockholm University; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Stockholm School of Economics; Hanken School of Economics
摘要：This paper analyzes a two-person, two-stage model of sequential exploration where both information and payoff externalities exist and tests the derived hypotheses in the laboratory. We theoretically show that, even when agents are self-interested and perfectly rational, the information externality induces an encouragement effect: a positive effect of first player exploration on the optimality of the second player exploring as well. When agents have other-regarding preferences and imperfectly o...
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作者：Bradley, Daniel; Gokkaya, Sinan; Liu, Xi
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of South Florida; University System of Ohio; Ohio University; University System of Ohio; Miami University
摘要：We examine professional connections among executives and analysts formed through overlapping historical employment. Analysts with professional connections to coverage firms have more accurate earnings forecasts and issue more informative buy and sell recommendations. These analysts are more likely to participate, be chosen first, and ask more questions during earnings conference calls and analyst/investor days. Homophily based on gender, age, and ethnicity is orthogonal to professional connect...
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作者：Simchi-Levi, David
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
