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Despite the vast research literature on topics relating to contract theory, only a few of the field's core ideas are … covered in microeconomics textbooks. This long-awaited book fills the need for a comprehensive textbook on contract theory … contract-theoretic models in applied contexts. The book covers all the major topics in contract theory taught in most graduate …
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Contract Theory by Patrick Bolton and Mathias Dewatripont, a comprehensive textbook on contract theory suitable for use … by the authors and other instructors of contract theory. The solutions manual to this essential text gives complete …
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For many years it was fashionable to treat macroeconomics and microeconomics as separate subjects without looking too deeply at the relationship between the two. But in the 1970s there occurred an episode of high inflation and high unemployment, which was inconsistent with orthodox theory. As a...
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Public Regulation studies the formation of institutions and government policies that regulate industry, offering new data, new contexts, and new tools for analyzing the structure and performance of regulatory activity. It addresses both how these institutions and policies came into being and how...
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In Game Theory and the Social Contract, Ken Binmore argues that game theory provides a systematic tool for … investigating ethical matters. His reinterpretation of classical social contract ideas within a game-theoretic framework generates … Theory and the Social Contract makes game-theoretic ideas more widely accessible to those with only a limited knowledge of …
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This volume brings together all of Ken Binmore's influential experimental papers on bargaining along with newly written commentary in which Binmore discusses the underlying game theory and addresses the criticism leveled at it by behavioral economists. When Binmore began his experimental work in...
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Robert Aumann's groundbreaking career in game theory has spanned over 35 years. These two volumes provide convenient access to all of his major research--from his doctoral dissertation in 1956 to papers as recent as January 1995. Threaded through all of Aumann's work (symbolized in his thesis on...
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The "oligopoly problem"--the question of how prices are formed when the market contains only a few competitors--is one of the more persistent problems in the history of economic thought. In this book Xavier Vives applies a modern game-theoretic approach to develop a theory of oligopoly pricing....
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Game theory has become increasingly popular among undergraduate as well as business school students. This text is the first to provide both a complete theoretical treatment of the subject and a variety of real-world applications, primarily in economics, but also in business, political science,...
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Debates over post-Kyoto Protocol climate change policy often take note of two issues: the feasibility and desirability of international cooperation on climate change policies, given the failure of the United States to ratify Kyoto, and the very limited involvement of developing countries; and...
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