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We study the process by which subordinated regions of a country can obtain a more favourable political status. In our theoretical model a dominant and a dominated region first interact through a voting process that can lead to different degrees of autonomy. If this process fails then both...
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which the monopoly outcome with equal sharing is sustainable in the uniform price auction, but not in the corresponding … discriminatory auction. Moreover, capacity withholding may be necessary to sustain this out-come. We extend these results to the case …
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The Bank of Spain uses a unique auction format to sell government bonds, which can be seen as a hybrid of a uniform and … a discriminatory auction. For winning bids above the average winning bid, buyers are charged the average winning bid …, otherwise they pay their respective bids. We report on an experiment that compares this auction format to the discriminatory …
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Updated - please see paper 551.02 in this series. The Bank of Spain uses a unique auction format to sell government … bonds, which can be seen as a hybrid of a uniform and a discriminatory auction. For winning bids above the average winning … compares this auc-tion format to the discriminatory format used in most other countries. We use a common value model with multi …
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We use experiments to study the efficiency effects for a market as a whole of adding the possibility of forward contracting to a pre-existing spot market. We deal separately with the cases where spot market competition is in quantities and where it is in supply functions. In both cases we...
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We study how conflict in a contest game is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group members being able to punish each other. Our main motivation stems from the analysis of socio-political conflict. The relevant theoretical prediction in our setting is that conflict expenditures are...
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We study collusive behaviour in experimental duopolies that compete in prices under dynamic demand conditions. In one treatment the demand grows at a constant rate. In the other treatment the demand declines at another constant rate. The rates are chosen so that the evolution of the demand in...
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We study the relation between the number of firms and market power in experimental oligopolies. Price competition under decreasing returns involves a wide interval of pure strategy equilibrium prices. We present results of an experiment in which two, three and four identical firms repeatedly...
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We study the relation between the number of firms and price-cost margins under price competition with uncertainty about competitors' costs. We present results of an experiment in which two, three and four identical firms repeatedly interact in this environment. In line with the theoretical...
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