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Unit vs. Ad Valorem Taxes in Multi-Product CournotOligopoly

Lapan, Harvey E.; Hennessy, David A. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2007

The welfare dominance of ad valorem taxes over unit taxes in a single-market Cournot oligopoly is well-known. This … article extends the analysis to multi-market oligopoly. Provided all ad valorem taxes are positive, unit costs are constant … in determining the extent of cost efficiencies arising under ad valorem taxation. The issue of merger under oligopoly is …

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Attitudes toward Private and Collective Risksin Individual and Strategic Choice Situations

Brennan, Geoffrey; González Morales, Luis G.; Güth, Werner - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - Abteilung …

Idiosyncratic risk attitudes are usually assumed to be commonly knownand restricted to own payos. However, the alternatives faced by a decisionmaker often involve risks for others' payos as well. Motivated by theimportance of other-regarding preferences in social interactions, this paperexplores...

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COURNOT Vs STACKELBERG EQUILIBRIA WITH APUBLIC ENTERPRISE AND INTERNATIONALCOMPETITION

Cornes, Richard; Sepahvand, Mehrdad - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2003

This paper examines the validity of alternative assumptions aboutpublic enterprise strategies in the presence of both domestic and internationalcompetition. It extends the quantity-setting game to apreplay stage and endogenizes the firms’ order of moves to show thati) Cournot competition is...

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Noisy leadership: An experimental approach

Güth, Werner; Müller, Wieland; Spiegel, Yossi - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2002

We examine the strategic behavior of leaders and followers in sequential duopoly experiments in which followers either perfectly observe the leaders' actions or else observe nothing. (...)

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Macht - eine interaktionsökonomische Betrachtung

Sardison, Markus - Universität <Halle, Saale> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2004

Das Phänomen der Macht ist seit jeher ein Faszinosum. Es scheint im menschlichen Dasein allgegenwärtig zu sein, und es überrascht deshalb nicht, dass die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema wohl so alt wie die Menschheit selbst ist. Allerdings erweist sich das Machtphänomen aus theoretischer...

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The Origins of Fair Play

Binmore, Ken - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2006

This lecture is a brief overview of an evolutionary theory of fairness. The ideasare fleshed out in a book Natural … Justice, which is itself a condensed versionof an earlier two-volume book Game Theory and the Social Contract (Binmore[14, 12 …

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The Resolution GameA Multiple Selves Perspective

Migrow, Dimitri; Uhl, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009

The notion of choice inconsistency is widely spread in the literature on behavioraleconomics. Several approaches were used to account for the observation that peoplereverse their choices over time. This paper aims to explain the formation of resolutionsregarded as internal self-binding devices....

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A sociological perspective on measuring social norms bymeans of strategy method experiments

Rauhut, Heiko; Winter, Fabian - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009

The measurement of social norms plays a pivotal role in many social sciences.While economists predominantly conduct experiments, sociologistsrather employ (factorial) surveys. Both methods, however, suer from distinctweaknesses. Experiments, on the one hand, often fall short in themeasurement of...

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Secret Santa:Anonymity, Signaling, and Conditional Cooperation

Hugh-Jones, David; Reinstein, David - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009

Costly signaling of commitment to a group has been proposed as an explanation forparticipation in religion and ritual. But if the signal’s cost is too small, freeriders willsend the signal and behave selfishly later. Effective signaling may then be prohibitivelycostly. If the average level of...

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Cycles of conditional cooperation in a real-time voluntarycontribution mechanism

Levati, Maria Vittoria; Zultan, Ro'i - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009

This paper provides a new way to identify conditional cooperationin a real-time version of the standard voluntary contribution mechanism. Ourapproach avoids most drawbacks of the traditional procedures because it relieson endogenous cycle lengths, which are defined by the number of contributors...

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