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voting body may affect the balance of power between the original members even if their number of votes and the decision rule … majority voting rules, and we measure the voting power of a player by his average payoff in the experiment. By comparing voting … power across voting bodies of varying size, we find empirical support for the paradox of new members. Our results also allow …
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, the impact of ex post incentives on informal contracts between principals and agents in bargaining environments in which … of those gains. Incentive contracting in these environments does not crowd-out off- equilibrium cooperation, and at high …
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In this paper we investigate how “civil service” personnel management interacts with bureaucratic discretion to create high capacity, expert bureaucracies populated by policy-motivated agents. We build a model in which bureaucrats may invest in (relationship specific) policy expertise, and...
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Previous papers on time-inconsistent procrastination assume projects are completed once begun. We develop a model in which a person chooses whether and when to complete each stage of a long-term project. In addition to procrastination in starting a project, a naive person might undertake costly...
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Ideal economics? A “non-ideal” economics approach has been proposed, which considers the possibility of arrangement infringements. It gives promises for both solving fundamental problems of economic theory and creation of new directions and fields of research. The approach application in...
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In this paper, we analyze coordination of macroeconomic stabilization policies within the EMU by focusing, in a dynamic set-up, on asymmetries, externalities, and the existence of a multi-country context. We study how coalitions among fiscal and monetary authorities are formed and what are their...
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except autarky. Under adaptive expectations, the distribution of employment converges to a rational expectations equilibrium …
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Noncooperative network-formation games in oligopolies analyze optimal connection structures that emerge when linking represent the appropriation of cost-reducing one-way externalities. These models reflect situations where one firm access to another firm’s (public or private) information and...
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to be corrected by the counter-actions of „rational“ investors reestablishing equilibrium. However, empirical evidence of …
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