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This paper studies the impact of entrepreneurial decisions regarding standard creation in an oligopolistic market with cooperative Ramp;D investments. Our game-theoretic analysis shows that if standards are open and only multi-standard equilibria are allowed, it is impossible to attain a stable...
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competition in the output market from other firms in the coalition. Also, the increase of the size of the coalition changes the … standards coalition in the first stage of a game, and play an oligopoly game in the second stage. In adding itself to a … technical standards coalition, a firm benefits from the network effects of the whole coalition, but also faces increased …
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In this paper a tournament between teams (a collective tournament) is analyzed, where each contestant may spend productive effort in order to increase his team's performance or sabotage the members of the opponent team. It is shown that sabotaging the weaker members of a team always decreases...
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Owners of intellectual property or mere sponsors of an idea (e.g., authors, security issuers, sponsors of standards) often need to persuade potential buyers or adopters of the worth of their property or idea. To this purpose, they often resort to more or less independent certifiers. This paper...
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Owners of intellectual property or mere sponsors of an idea (e.g., authors, security issuers, sponsors of standards) often need to persuade potential buyers or adopters of the worth of their property or idea. To this purpose, they often resort to more or less independent certifiers. This paper...
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value of a coalition-based on the best or worst roommate in the coalition. In all cases, we determine the complexity of …
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Capital tax competition is known to result in inefficiently low tax rates and an undersupply of public goods. The … Zodrow-Mieszkowski-Wilson tax-competition model this paper analyses the conditions under which tax coordination by a group of … countries is self-enforcing. It is shown that there always exists a rather small stable tax coalition. For some subset of the …
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