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Harrison, Mark - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2012

The paper examines the range of national experiences of communist rule in terms of the aspiration to ‘overtake and outstrip the advanced countries economically’. It reviews the causal beliefs of the rulers, the rise and fall of their economies (or, in the case of China, its continued rise),...

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Imitation and the Emergence of Nash Equilibrium Play in Games with Many Players

Cartwright, Edward - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2003

We model a learning dynamic in which players imitate and innovate. Of interest is to question whether Nash equilibrium play emerges, and if so, the role that imitation plays in this emergence. Our main result provides a general class of coordination games for which approximate Nash equilibrium...

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OPTIMUM CURRENCY AREA INDICES : EVIDENCE FROM THE 1990s

Horváth, Roman; Komárek, Luboš - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2003

In this paper the authors calculate OCA-indexes for industrial countries in an effort to estimate the benefit-cost ratio of adopting a common currency. The results correspond to the estimation of Bayoumi and Eichengreen (1997b) and show that the ranking of the economies suitable to form a...

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Pricing behaviour under competition in the UK electricity supply industry

Giulietti, Monica; Otero, Jesus; Waterson, Michael - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2007

view that the market is becoming more competitive and also indicates that there remain significant potential benefits to …

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LEARNING TO PLAY APPROXIMATE NASH EQUILIBRIA IN GAMES WITH MANY PLAYERS

Cartwright, Edward - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2003

an imitation dynamic and provide conditions under which play evolves to an imitation equilibrium ; convergence is …

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SUBSIDIZATION OF RISKY INVESTMENT UNDER INCOME TAXATION AND MORAL HAZARD.

CHRISTIANSEN, V. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 1990

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Market Structure and Entry: Where's the Beef?.

Toivanen, O.; Waterson, M. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2001

We study the effects of market structure on entry using data from the UK fast food (counter-service burger …)industry over the years 1991-1995. Over this period, the market can be characterized as a duopoly. We find that market structure … matters greatly: for both firms, rival presence increases the probability of entry. We control for market specific time …

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Labour-Saving Innovation: Union Attitudes Under Oligopolistic Competition or Unions Luddites?

Dowrick, S.; Spencer, B.J. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 1991

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Sleeping Patents and Computsory Licensing: An Options Analysis.

Weeds, H. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 1999

long been perceived as anticompetitive devices, used by dominant firms to block entry into their market. In a real options …

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Norms, Sovereignty and Regulation.

Cowling, K.; Naylor, R. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 1992

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