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Purification in the Infinitely-Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma
Bhaskar, V.; Mailath, George J.; Morris, Stephen - 2006
This paper investigates the Harsanyi (1973)-purifiability of mixed strategies in the repeated prisoners' dilemma with perfect monitoring. We perturb the game so that in each period, a player receives a private payoff shock which is independently and identically distributed across players and...
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Kantian Optimization : An Approach to Cooperative Behavior
Roemer, John E. - 2013
species, the reigning assumption in economic theory is that individuals optimize in an autarkic manner (as in Nash and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073896
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Economists as Worldly Philosophers
Shiller, Robert J. - 2011
While leading figures in the early history of economics conceived of it as inseparable from philosophy and other humanities, there has been movement, especially in recent decades, towards its becoming an essentially technical field with narrowly specialized areas of inquiry. Certainly,...
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Identification in a Class of Nonparametric Simultaneous Equations Models
Berry, Steven - 2011
We consider identification in a class of nonparametric simultaneous equations models introduced by Matzkin (2008). These models combine standard exclusion restrictions with a requirement that each structural error enter through a “residual index” function. We provide constructive proofs of...
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Cost Innovation : Schumpeter and Equilibrium - Part 1: Robinson Crusoe
Shubik, Martin - 2011
Modifying a parallel dynamic programming approach to a simple deterministic economy, we consider the effect of an innovation in the means of production. The success of the innovation is assumed to depend on the availability of financing, locus of financial control, the amount of resources...
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Folklore Theorems, Implicit Maps and New Unit Root Limit Theory
Phillips, Peter C. B. - 2011
theory relies on a sequence-based delta method in the stationary case and a sequence-based implicit continuous mapping … theorem in unit root and local to unity cases. The new limit theory shows that the IIE achieves much more than bias correction …. It changes the limit theory of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) when the autoregressive coefficient is in the …
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Default Penalty as a Disciplinary and Selection Mechanism in Presence of Multiple Equilibria
Huber, Juergen - 2011
. The theory and evidence together reinforce the idea that accounting, bankruptcy and possibly other aspects of social …
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Managing Strategic Buyers
Horner, Johannes - 2010
We consider the problem of a monopolist who must sell her inventory before some deadline, facing n buyers with independent private values. The monopolist posts prices but has no commitment power. The seller faces a basic trade-off between imperfect price discrimination and maintaining an...
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Career Concerns with Coarse Information
Bonatti, Alessandro - 2012
This paper develops a model of career concerns. The worker's skill is revealed through output, wage is based on expected output, and so on assessed ability. Specifically, effort increases the probability that a skilled worker achieves a one-time breakthrough. Effort levels at different times are...
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Integrated Economic and Climate Modeling
Nordhaus, William D. - 2011
This survey examines the history and current practice in integrated assessment models (IAMs) of the economics of climate change. It begins with a review of the emerging problem of climate change. The next section provides a brief sketch of the rise of IAMs in the 1970s and beyond. The subsequent...
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