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Brandts, Jordi; Cooper, David J. - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2005

managerial intervention subjects invariably slip into coordination failure. To overcome a history of coordination failure …, managers have two instruments at their disposal, increasing employees' financial incentives to coordinate and communication … with employees. We find that communication is a more effective tool than incentive changes for leading organizations out of …

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Bidding at Sequential First-Price Auctions with(out) Supply Uncertainty: A Laboratory Analysis

Neugebauer, Tibor; Pezanis-Christou, Paul - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2003

We report on a series of experiments that test the effects of an uncertain supply on the formation of bids and prices in sequential first-price auctions with private-independent values and unit-demands. Supply is assumed uncertain when buyers do not know the exact number of units to be sold...

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Elicited bid functions in (a)symmetric first-price auctions

Pezanis-Christou, Paul; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2003

We report on a series of experiments that examine bidding behavior in first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric and asymmetric bidders. To study the extent of strategic behavior, we use an experimental design that elicits bidders' complete bid functions in each round (auction) of the...

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An Explicit Bound on epsilon for Non-Emptiness of the epsilon-Core of an Arbitrary Game with Side Payments.

Kovalenkov, A.; Holtz Wooders, M. - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 1997

We introduce the concept of a paramaterized collection of games with side payments and determine a bound on epsilon so that all sufficiently large games in such a collection have non-emplty epsilon-cores. A parametrized collection of games is described by (a) the number of approximate player...

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Search and bargaining in large markets with homogeneous traders

Clara Ponsat?Author-Email: Clara.ponsati@uab.es - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2001

We study pair-wise decentralized trade in dynamic markets with homogeneous, non-atomic, buyers and sellers that wish to exchange one unit. Pairs of traders are randomly matched and bargaining a price under rules that offer the freedom to quit the match at any time. Market equilbria, prices and...

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Strategy-proof social choice

Barberà, Salvador - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2010

This paper surveys the literature on strategy-proofness from a historical perspective. While I discuss the connections with other works on incentives in mechanism design, the main emphasis is on social choice models. This article has been prepared for the Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare,...

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Consumers' Behavior and the Bertrand Paradox: An ACE approach

Vilà, Xavier - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2005

We analyze the classical Bertrand model when consumers exhibit some strategic behavior in deciding from which seller they will buy. We use two related but different tools. Both consider a probabilistic learning (or evolutionary) mechanism, and in the two of them consumers' behavior in uences the...

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Structural Inferences from First-Price Auction Experiments

Pezanis-Christou, Paul; Romeu, Andres - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2002

We use structural methods to assess equilibrium models of bidding with data from first-price auction experiments. We identify conditions to test the Nash equilibrium models for homogenous and for heterogeneous constant relative risk aversion when bidders private valuations are independent and...

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A Simple Test of Explanations for Contributions in Social Dilemmas.

Bolton, G; Brandts, J; Katok, E - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 1996

We test competing explanations for contributions in social dilemma games. Hypotheses are classified in two ways : bgy key concept and by strategy sensitivity.

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An Explicit Bound On epsilon for Non-Emptiness of the epsilon-Core of an Arbitrary Game Without Side Payments.

Kovalenkov, A.; Holtz Wooders, M. - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 1997

We consider parameterized collections of games without side payments and determine a bound on epsilon so that all sufficiently large games in the collection have non-empty epsilon-cores. The required size of epsilon depends on: (a)the number of approximate player types and the accuracy of this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005168489