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de Clippel, Geoffroy; Eliaz, Kfir; Knight, Brian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

. We take an implementation-theoretic approach and provide theoretical, empirical and experimental analyses of this problem …

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Budgeting versus implementing fiscal policy in the EU

Beetsma, Roel; Giuliodori, Massimo; Wierts, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

implementation in the EU are determined. We find that (1) implemented budgetary adjustment falls systematically short of planned … by the implementation errors, (3) there is a limited role for "traditional" political variables, (4) stock … their implementation benefit from stronger national fiscal institutions. We emphasise also the importance of credible plans …

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All-Pay Auctions: Implementation and Optimality

Jönsson, Stefan; Schmutzler, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper analyzes how all-pay auctions with endogenous prizes can be used to provide effort incentives. We show that wide classes of effort distributions can be implemented as equilibrium outcomes of such games. We also ask how all-pay auctions have to be structured so as to induce high...

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Macroeconomics of Self-fulfilling Prophecies, 2nd Edition

Farmer, Roger E. A. - The MIT Press

For many years it was fashionable to treat macroeconomics and microeconomics as separate subjects without looking too deeply at the relationship between the two. But in the 1970s there occurred an episode of high inflation and high unemployment, which was inconsistent with orthodox theory. As a...

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Public Regulation: New Perspectives on Institutions and Policies

Bailey, Elizabeth E. (contributor) - The MIT Press

Public Regulation studies the formation of institutions and government policies that regulate industry, offering new data, new contexts, and new tools for analyzing the structure and performance of regulatory activity. It addresses both how these institutions and policies came into being and how...

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Participation Games: Market Entry, Coordination and the Beautiful Blonde

Anderson, Simon P; Engers, Maxim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We find the Nash equilibria for monotone n-player symmetric games where each player chooses whether to participate. Examples include market entry games, coordination games, and the bar-room game depicted in the movie 'A Beautiful Mind'. The symmetric Nash equilibrium involves excessive...

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How Should Control Theory be Used by a Time-Consistent Government?

Cohen, Daniel; Michel, Philippe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

It has been recognized that the optimal strategy of a government is generally time-inconsistent: optimality requires that the government take into account expectations effects in the formulation of its policy and to ignore these effects when applying the policy. In order to analyse the problem,...

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Regulation Games

Gilbert, Richard; Newbery, David M G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

We examine regulation as a repeated game between a regulator and a utility facing a Markovian sequence of demands. Sunk capital would be expropriated by a regulator concerned only with the short-run interests of consumers. There exist rate of return regulatory policies supporting efficient...

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Price Stability as a Nash Equilibrium in Monetary Open-Economy Models

Benigno, Gianluca; Benigno, Pierpaolo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

A two-country dynamic general-equilibrium model with imperfect competition and price stickiness is considered. This work shows the conditions under which price stability can implement the flexible-price allocation as a Nash equilibrium. This is possible if and only if both countries maintain a...

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The Sustainability of Optimal Cooperative Macroeconomic Policies in a Two-Country World

Currie, David; Levine, Paul L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

The paper investigates the sustainability of cooperative rules for the conduct of macroeconomic policy in a two-country world. The problem is set out as a supergame in which the threat strategy is to switch to a Nash non-cooperative equilibrium. A number of possible non-cooperative equilibria...

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