.’s investment game by introducing an upper bound to what a contributor can be repaid afterwards. By varying this upper bound …

Credit risk refers to the risk of incurring losses due to unexpected changes in the credit quality of a counterparty or … issuer. In this paper we give an introduction to the modeling of credit risks and the valuation of credit-risky securities …. We consider individual as well as correlated credit risks. -- compensator ; intensity ; credit risk ; default risk …

Experimental studies have shown that trust and reciprocity are effective in increasing efficiency when complete … contracting is infeasible. One example is the study by Berg et al. (1995) of the investment game. In this game the person who … receives the investment is the one who may reward the investor. This is a direct reward game. Similar to Dufwenberg et al …

is provided by a productivity-based model of the real value of the euro. Some panel regression estimates of the … relationship between intercountry relative productivity differentials and real exchange rates is presented. Using these estimates … to conduct some calculations, one comes to the conclusion that unless drastic changes to productivity trends occur, there …