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Monopoly
Kempe, Wolfram - 1996
This is the first chapter of a graduate text entitled Topics in Microeconomics. It covers the basics of monopoly theory … time consistency problem ("durable goods monopoly"), and how the basic theory of third-degree price discrimination needs to … be modified accordingly. The Chapter closes with the noncooperative bargaining theory of bilateral monopoly and suggests …
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Long-term work contracts versus sequential spot markets : experimental evidence on firm-specific investment
Anderhub, Vital; Königstein, Manfred; Kübler, Dorothea - 1999
Dismissal rules, i.e. legally enforced long term contracts, have beem defended against criticism for, among other things, providing efficient incentives to invest in relationship specific skills. However, in many situations efficient investment can also be attained by spot contracts. We...
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Preemption in capacity and price determination : a study of endogenous timing of decisions for homogeneous markets
Güth, Sandra; Güth, Werner - 1998 - Rev.
The theory of industrial organization has experienced an impressive boom by using the methods of (non-cooperative) game … theory. The conclusions depend, however. crucially on subtle details of the market decision processes about which there exist …
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Price variability and price dispersion in a stable monetary environment : evidence from German retail markets
Fengler, Matthias R.; Winter, Joachim - 2000
We investigate the relationship between inflation and price variation using highly disaggregated, weekly price data for consumption goods recorded in Germany during 1995, a low inflation period. We find a significant positive correlation between the rates of price change and price dispersion,...
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Quantile-VaR is the wrong measure to quantify market risk for regulatory purposes
Jaschke, Stefan R. - 2001
Starting from the objective of banking supervision - to minimize the overall costs of banking to the general public - we show that the current standard of quantifying market risk is flawed. It is perfectly aligned with the interests of banks' shareholders and management, but not with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009614286
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The Cornish-Fisher-Expansion in the context of Delta - Gamma - Normal approximations
Jaschke, Stefan R. - 2001
Qualitative and quantitative properties of the Cornish-Fisher-Expansion in the context of Delta-Gamma-Normal approaches to the computation of Value at Risk are presented. Some qualitative deficiencies of the Cornish-Fisher-Expansion - the monotonicity of the distribution function as well as...
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The great demand depression
Weder, Mark - 2001
This paper entertains the notion that disturbances on the demand side play a central role in our understanding of the Great Depression. In fact, from Euler equation residuals we are able to identify a series of unusually large negative demand shocks that appeared to have hit the U. S. economy...
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Semiparametric estimation in single index poisson regression : a practical approach
Climov, Daniela; Delecroix, Michel; Simar, Léopold - 2001
In a single index Poisson regression model with unknown link function, the index parameter can be root-n consistently estimated by the method of pseudo maximumum likelihood. In this paper, we study, by simulation arguments, the practical validity of the asymptotic behavior of the pseudo maximum...
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Fractional integration and business cycle features
Candelon, Bertrand; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2001
We show in this article that fractionally integrated univariate models for GDP may lead to a better replication of business cycle characteristics. We firstly show that the business cycle features are clearly affected by the degree of integration as well as by the other short run components of...
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Experimental "beauty contests" with homogeneous and heterogeneous players and with interior and boundary equilibria
Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias - 2001
We study behavior in experimental beauty contests with, first, boundary and interior equilibria, and, second, homogeneous and heterogenous types of players. We find quicker and better convergence to the game-theoretic equilibrium with interior equilibria and homogeneous players. -- beauty...
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