Sloan Working Papers: Recent submissions

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    • Profiting from voluntary information spillovers: How users benefit by freely revealing their innovations 

      Harhoff, Dietmar; Henkel, Joachim; von Hippel, Eric A. (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009-01)
      Empirical studies of innovation have found that end users frequently develop important product and process innovations. Defying conventional wisdom on the negative effects of uncompensated spillovers, innovative users also ...

    • Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect 

      Khandani, Amir; Lo, Andrew W.; Merton, Robert C. (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009-09-13)
      The confluence of three trends in the U.S. residential housing market - rising home prices, declining interest rates, and near-frictionless refinancing opportunities - led to vastly increased systemic risk in the financial ...

    • Noisy Independent Factor Analysis Model for Density Estimation and Classification 

      Amato, U.; Antoniadis, A.; Samarov, A.; Tsybakov, A.B. (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009-06-09)
      We consider the problem of multivariate density estimation when the unknown density is assumed to follow a particular form of dimensionality reduction, a noisy independent factor analysis (IFA) model. In this model the ...