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Traditional power indices ignore preferences and strategic interaction. Equilibrium analysis of particular non … lingering debate about the right approach to power analysis. A unified framework that works both sides of the street is … developed here. It rests on a notion of a posteriori power which formalizes players' marginal impact to outcomes in cooperative …
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classical power indices. The main emphasis in the assessment is in stability, efficiency and fairness. The paper concludes that …
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strategic disadvantage: a greater voting power in forming a winning coalition is undermined by the threat of being overly …
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The European Union (EU) has moved towards bicameralism, making the codecision procedure its most important mechanism for decision making. To gauge if European Parliament (EP) and Council of Ministers (CM) are equally powerful codecision makers , understanding of the final stage of the procedure...
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This paper analyzes the problem of designing macroeconomic stabilization policies within the European Monetary Union (EMU) as a dynamic game between a centralized monetary authority, the European Central Bank (ECB), and national fiscal policy makers. Non-cooperative feedback Nash equilibrium and...
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in structural characteristics, policy preferences and/or bargaining power. The paper introduces an analysis of …
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The Greek bail-out was highly controversial. An oft-heard assessment is that i) the bail-out was a mistake, ii) the political haggling over it was irrational and iii) the bail-out will create a moral hazard problem. Contrary to this view, our analysis suggests that, given EMU's present...
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The tradable or transferable permit system, "cap and trade", is one of the most innovative policy options developed by environmental economists. Over the last 40 years, cap and trade programs have been used around the globe by some of the world’s biggest economies. By placing a cap on a bad,...
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We introduce a "smart" cap and trade system that eliminates the welfare costs of asymmetric information (“uncertainty”). This cap responds endogenously to technology or macroeconomic shocks, relying on the market price of certificates to aggregate information. It allows policy makers to...
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