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that the regime survived past attacks. This interaction also generates interesting equilibrium properties, such as the …
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A large body of recent empirical work on inflation dynamics documents that current real variables (like unemployment or output gaps) have little explanatory power for future inflation. Motivated by these findings, I explore the properties of a wide class of models in which inflation expectations...
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technologies. Equilibrium extraction is too large and comes too early for public resources, but the opposite is true for private …
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can withdraw from the market after initial contract offers have been observed. We show that a subgame perfect equilibrium … always exists and that, in fact, when withdrawal is costless, the set of subgame perfect equilibrium outcomes may correspond … robust equilibrium outcome of our game. This outcome is always constrained efficient and involves cross-subsidization from …
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In this paper, we examine the empirical implications of reputation formation using a game-theoretic model of intra-familial interactions. We consider parental reputation in repeated two-stage games in which daughters' decision to have a child as a teenager and the willingness of parents to...
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To what extent must nations cede control over their economic and social policies if global efficiency is to be achieved in an interdependent world? This question is at the center of the debate over the future role of GATT (and its successor, the WTO) in the realm of labor and environmental...
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competition rules. It is shown that an equilibrium where all countries retain their antitrust laws does not exist, since … profits. Instead of such an equilibrium, a deregulation race is likely to emerge in which all but the last country repeal …
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information. Instead, equilibrium strategies are many-to-one mappings that transform continuous data into ordered ranks: voting … procedures are the equilibrium methods of achieving a consensus in committees. Voting necessarily coarsens the transmission of … information among members, but is necessary to control conflicts of interest. The degree of coarseness of the equilibrium voting …
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economic efficiency and that fighting bribery would be counter-productive. This need not be the case. In a general equilibrium …
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Trade negotiations occur through time and between the governments of many countries. An important issue is thus whether the value of concessions that a government wins in a current negotiation may be eroded in a future bilateral negotiation to which it is not party. In the absence of rules that...
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