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not provide a clear insight on how a modern system of private electronic money would work and how the necessary network …
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formed if members of the coalition are connected on a communication network, or a graph. We offer a characterization of non …-manipulable division rules without any assumption on the structure of communication network. As corollaries, we obtain a number of earlier … characterization results established with the assumption of complete network (complete graph) in various specialized settings. Moreover …
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We model a hierarchy consisting of possibly corrupted agents who process information, and consider the problem of designing the efficient hierarchy structure and configuring the agents who differ in their honesty. If the only role of agents is to report the information to their direct superior,...
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In this paper, we consider the network as an alternative trading environment to the market. The main distinctive … feature of the network transaction is the dependence of buyers' purchasing behavior, which makes all consumers not equally … valuable to a seller. We characterize the optimal behavior of a seller and consumers in a network. A seller's strategy of …
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In many markets consumer biases do not affect prices, since competition forces firms to price their products close to marginal cost; competition protects the consumer. We show that noisy consumer product evaluations undermine the force of competition, enabling firms to charge high mark-ups in...
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In this paper we consider a model where some consumers act in a boundedly rational way by treating money as non-fungible (Kahneman and Tversky (1979) and (1984), Thaler (1987) and (1990). The budget is broken up into different expenditure groups (cookie-jars). Given the amount of resources...
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We model how excess demand or excess supply can be generated in the presence of a social network of interactions, where …
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