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We study option management by committee. Analysis is illustrated by tenure decisions. Our innovations are two-fold: we treat the committee's problem as one of social choice, not of information aggregation; and we endogenise the outside option: rejecting a candidate at either the probationary or...
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This paper studies the interaction between two autonomous policymakers, the central bank and the government, in managing public debt as the result of a two-stage game. In the first stage the institutional regime is established. This determines the equilibrium solution to be applied in the second...
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In this paper we use a differential game analysis to study the dynamic strategic interaction between a criminal gang extorting money from local shop-owners and the local police force. In particular, we are interested in characterizing which factors are important in determining whether the...
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Uncertainty represented by volatilities in equity markets has been observed to be time-variable and lead output … fluctuations. In the rational expectation framework, uncertainty with this nature needs exogenous variables with time … that supervisions and law enforcement that reduce cheatings in contracts is one of the ultimate sources of uncertainty. The …
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. There are at least five equivalent ways of representing the measured model uncertainty and a new and an improved risk … - uncertainty, complexity and rank. First, the concept of epistemic uncertainty is sufficient for modeling and the concept of … probability is unnecessary. This is illustrated by 'Galton's Error,' and the under-repesentation of systematic risk by American …
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NEED TO RECONSIDER OUR ACTIONS/DECISIONS WITH RISK AND TROUBLES, SO 'TRUSTING' IS GOING TO HAVE AN IMPORTANT ROLE AS … AND WE WONT TO AVOID THE RISK OF BEING DECEIVED. THESE SOCIAL INTERACTIONS ARE PRECONDITIONS THAT HAVE MANY CONSEQUENCES …
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This paper explores the growing involvement of new types of non- commodity-sector-related players in commodity futures markets. This includes a discussion on the role of managed funds, the impact of the use of commodity warrants, and the direct involvement of banks. The impact of this new form...
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of the paper are relevant also for price competition and for uncertainty about, e.g., cost or the number of firms, and …
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Economic theory predicts that in a first-price auction with equal and observable valuations, bidders earn zero profits. Theory also predicts that if valuations are not common knowledge, then since it is weakly dominated to bid your valuation, bidders will bid less and earn positive profits....
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