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. Coordination among speculators is sometimes desirable for price informativeness and investment efficiency, but speculators … coordination among speculators and study policy measures that affect patterns of coordination to improve price informativeness and …
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This paper is an effort to do international trade theory without mentioning countries. Nearly all models of the international economy assume that trade takes place between nations or regions which are themselves dimensionless points. We develop a model in which economic space is instead assumed...
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affects its policy decision. We show that the learning process gives rise to coordination motives among speculators leading to … information from the market, and that transparency may either increase or decrease the effectiveness of learning from the market …
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This paper reports results from an experiment studying how fines, leniency programs and reward schemes for whistleblowers affect cartel formation and prices. Antitrust without leniency reduces cartel formation, but increases cartel prices: subjects use costly fines as (altruistic) punishments....
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The paper reviews and evaluates in a non-technical manner the economic and political arguments for and against the two fiscal convergence criteria written into the Treaty of Maastricht and its Protocols. In order to qualify for full membership in Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), net general...
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We analyse the effect of trade spillovers and of international coordination on currency crises. To do this, we present … and the larger the set of multiple equilibria. Coordination decreases the possibility of simultaneous self …-fulfilling speculative crises in the region and reduces the set of multiple equilibria. However, regional coordination, even though welfare …
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This paper compares centralized and decentralized coordination when managers are privately informed and communicate … for coordination improves horizontal communication but worsens vertical communication. As a result, no matter how … important coordination is, decentralization dominates centralization if the division managers are not too biased towards their …
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although competition between incompatible networks is initially unstable and sensitive to competitive offers and random events …
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play in networks is to some extent boundedly rational, in the sense that coordination is influenced by local and individual …
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This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities …, using rules and task guidelines, and ex post coordination, using communication and broad job assignments. It shows that: (i … coordination. In particular, specialization is often non-monotonic in the importance of coordination. (ii) Organizations exhibit …
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