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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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Learning to like what you have : explaining the endowment effect

Huck, Steffen; Kirchsteiger, Georg; Oechssler, Joerg - 1997

The endowment effect describes the fact that people demand much more to give up an object than they are willing to spend to acquire it. The existence of this effect has been documented in numerous experiments. We attempt to explain this effect by showing that evolution favors individuals whose...

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Loss of commitment? : an evolutionary analysis of Bagwell's example

Oechssler, Joerg; Schlag, Karl H. - 1997

In a recent paper Bagwell (1995) pointed out that only the Cournot outcome, but not the Stackelberg outcome, can be supported by a pure Nash equilibrium when actions of the Stackelberg leader are observed with the slightest error. The Stackelberg outcome, however, remains close to the outcome of...

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