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This paper explores the private and social benefits from barter exchange in a monetized economy. We first prove a no …-monetary exchange avoids this limitation and enhances trade by (1) generating liquidity and (2) by segmenting the market place into low …-demand and high-demand customers in a manner which is impossible with pure monetary exchange. We provide comparative statics …
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Itaya et al. (2014) study the conditions for sustainability and stability of capital tax coordination in a repeated …
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Theoretical and experimental studies of noncooperative games increasingly recognize Nash equilibrium as a limiting outcome of players repeated interaction. This note, while sharing that view, illustrates and advocates combined use of convex optimization and differential equations, the purpose...
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We study the formation of networks in environments where agents derive benefits from other agents directly linked to them but suffer losses through contagion when any agent on a path connected to them is hit by a shock. We first consider networks with undirected links (e.g. epidemics,...
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This paper investigates the domestic government's antidumping duty choice in an asymmetric information framework where … penalty duties. We show that the antidumping framework within GATT/WTO may not only offer the means to pursue strategic trade … optimal strategic trade policy. -- Antidumping duties ; asymmetric information ; trade protection ; strategic trade policy …
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equilibrium is characterized by unilateral dumping by the foreign firm into the domestic economy. Two instruments of anti-dumping … (AD) policy are examined, namely, a price undertaking (PU) and an anti-dumping duty. We show that, when firms ̕cost …
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is a progression from u sing tariffs only to quotas, and to antidumping constraints (when quotas are jointly eliminated …
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anti-dumping laws. To that end, we investigate the strategic incentives of oligopolistic exporting firms to undertake … protection and to the exchange rate depreciations observed recently. Dumping may arise even if consumers exhaust all arbitrage … dumping in these economies. We show that dumping may be due to cross-country differences in income, to the extent of tariff …
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games. Among them are the ultimatum game, the gift-exchange game, a reduced best-shot game, the dictator game, the prisoner …
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In this paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common pool resource (CPR) experiments. The evidence indicates that in standard CPR games without communication and without sanctioning possibilities inefficient excess appropriation is...
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