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Dynamic Enfranchisement
Jack, William; Lagunoff, Roger - EconWPA - 2003
Why would a political elite voluntarily dilute its political power by extending the voting franchise? This paper develops a dynamic recursive framework for studying voter enfranchisement. We specify a class of dynamic games in which political rights evolve over time. Each period, private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412476
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Dynamic Behavior in Minimum Effort Coordination Games - Some Theory of Group Size and Inter-Group Competition as Coordination Devices
Riechmann, Thomas - EconWPA - 2005
This paper presents a model of individual behavior in minimum effort coordination games, focusing primarily on the effects of the number of players and the introduction of inter-group competition. It is shown that independent of the number of players and the number of competing groups, the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062347
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Learning to Respond: The Use of Heuristics in Dynamic Games
Shor, Mikhael - EconWPA - 2003
While many learning models have been proposed in the game theoretic literature to track individuals’ behavior, surprisingly little research has focused on how well these models describe human adaptation in changing dynamic environments. Analysis of human behavior demonstrates that people are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062390
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SUSTAINABILITY OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND WATER POLLUTION IN NIGERIA: PROBLEMS, MANAGEMENT AND POLICY OPTIONS
Adenuga, Ade; Ogujiuba, Kanayo; Ohuche, Friday - EconWPA - 2005
process of environmental degradation via water pollution in Nigeria. While it notes that a careful management of water as a … possibility of applying economic instruments to mitigate environmental degradation, with particular reference to water pollution …. The paper posits that water pollution control need to be supported by coordinated policy, adequate legal and institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556179
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El Geomarketing y la distribución comercial
Chasco-Yrigoyen, Coro - EconWPA - 2004
statistics.This is geomarketing, a new big Tool which solves some critical retailing location problems, which are often …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556184
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A Residential Energy Demand System for Spain
Labandeira, Xavier; Labeaga, José M.; Rodríguez, Miguel - EconWPA - 2005
Sharp price fluctuations and increasing environmental and distributional concerns, among other issues, have led to a renewed academic interest in energy demand. In this paper we estimate, for the first time in Spain, an energy demand system with household microdata. In doing so, we tackle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119094
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Allocation Rules for Network Games
Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2003
alternative network structures (not just sub-networks) can and should influence the allocation of value among players on any given …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005550861
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A Survey of Models of Network Formation: Stability and Efficiency
Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2003
I survey the recent literature on the formation of networks. I provide definitions of network games, a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005550866
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Social capital: reviewing the concept and its policy implications
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003
There is scope for Governments to take more account of social capital in policy development, according to this Commission study. This paper suggests that social capital generally brings social and economic benefits by reducing transaction costs, promoting cooperative behaviour, diffusing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556904
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Networks of Innovation Clusters in Cova da Beira (Portugal)
Leitao, Joao; Osorio, Carlos - EconWPA - 2005
This article proposes a normative model for the cluster articulation in Cova da Beira (Portugal), based on network functioning which accomplishes the general purposes of the National Integrated Programme to the Support for Innovation, and creates a connectivity between traditional Microclusters:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561423