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contracts which determine their managers' salaries. One contract simply gives managers incentives to maximize firm profits …, while the second contract gives an additional sales bonus. Although theory predicts the second contract to be chosen, it is … only rarely chosen in the experimental markets. This behavior is rational given that managers do not play according to the …
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. Finally, we apply this general theory to a number of applications like the Nash demand game, the War of Attrition, Cournot and … Bertrand oligopoly games, and mixed strategies. -- replicator dynamics ; evolutionary stability ; continuous strategy spaces … ; oligopoly …
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To be represented by more than one contestant in a contest has advantages and disadvantages. This paper determines the conditions under which it is favorable to send several agents into the contest. -- contests ; Divisionalization ; delegation
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There has been a significant interest on a theoretical level in the application of supergames to oligopoly behavior …
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This paper extends the static analysis of oligopoly structure into an infinite-horizon setting with sunk costs and …
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than its static analog. We then test the theory using monthly production targets of the Big Three U.S. auto manufacturers …
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Using an aggregative games approach, we analyze horizontal mergers in a model of multiproduct-firm price competition with nested CES or nested logit demands. We show that the Herfindahl index provides an adequate measure of the welfare distortions introduced by market power, and that the induced...
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market power. Multiple precision medicine market situations now resemble game theory constructs such as the prisoners …
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Modern 'principal-agent theory' has made a lot of progress in proposing theoretical Solutions to agency problems. This … evidence on offered contracts and effort choices in a simple agency game. In line with principal-agent theory we find that in … design has to regard an equity constraint that has so far been neglected by contract theory. In fact, most contract offers …
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