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Research among copycats : R&D, spillovers, and feedback strategies
Smrkolj, Grega; Wagener, Florian Oskar Ottokar - 2014
We study a stochastic dynamic game of process innovation in which firms can initiate and terminate R&D efforts and production at different times. We discern the impact of knowledge spillovers on the investments in existing markets, as well as on the likely structure of newly forming markets, for...
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Axiomatizations of a positional power score and measure for hierarchies
Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811430
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Axiomatizations of a positional power score and measure for hierarchies
Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - 2008
actors. While such an analysis informs us about the authority structure within an organization, it ignores the decision …-making mechanisms completely. The few studies which take into account the decision-making mechanisms make all use of adaptations of well … a class of decision-making mechanisms which allow certain actors to terminate a decision before all other members have …
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Deal or no deal? : decision-making under risk in a large-payoff game show
Post, Thierry; Baltussen, Guido; Assem, Martijn J. van den - 2006
We examine the risky choices of contestants in the popular TV game show “Deal or No Deal” and related classroom experiments. Contrary to the traditional view of expected utility theory, the choices can be explained in large part by previous outcomes experienced during the game. Risk aversion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348343
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On the optimality of regularity in mixing markovian decision rules for MDP control
Laan, Dinard van der - 2010
In this paper we study Markov Decision Process (MDP) problems with the restriction that at decision epochs only a … finite number of given Markovian decision rules may be applied. The elements of the finite set of allowed decision rules … should be mixed to improve the performance. The set of allowed Markovian decision rules could for example consist of some …
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Assigning multiple job types to parallel specialized servers
Laan, Dinard van der - 2015
In this paper methods of mixing decision rules are investigated and applied to the so-called multiple job type … assignment problem with specialized servers which is modeled as continuous time Markov decision process. Performance optimization … the described mixing methods a suitable static decision rule is mixed with some dynamic decision rules which are easy to …
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Decision making in incomplete markets with ambiguity : a case study of a gas field acquisition
Zhao, Lin; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 2014
We apply utility indifference pricing to solve a contingent claim problem, valuing a connected pair of gas fields where the underlying process is not standard Geometric Brownian motion and the assumption of complete markets is not fulfilled. First, empirical data are often characterized by...
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A fixed point theorem for discontinuous functions
Herings, Peter Jean-Jacques; Laan, Gerard van der; … - 2004
Any function from a non-empty polytope into itself that is locally gross direction preserving is shown to have the fixed point property. Brouwer's fixed point theorem for continuous functions is a special case. We discuss the application of the result in the area of non-cooperative game theory.
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On borel probability measures and noncooperative game theory
Frenk, Johannes G.; Kassay, Gábor; Protassov, V. - 2002
In this paper the well-known minimax theorems of Wald, Ville and Von Neumann are generalized under weaker topological conditions on the payoff function f and/or extended to the larger set of the Borel probability measures instead of the set of mixed strategies.
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Measuring the effectiveness of Anti-Cartel Interventions : a conceptual framework
Katsulakos, Giannēs S.; Motchenkova, Evgenia; Ulph, David - 2016
This paper develops a model of the birth and death of cartels in the presence of enforcement activities by a Competition Authority (CA). We distinguish three sets of interventions: (a) detecting, prosecuting and penalizing cartels; (b) actions that aim to stop cartel activity in the short-term,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431514