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Information Sharing and Cooperative Search in Fisheries

Evans, Keith; Weninger, Quinn - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010

This paper studies equilibrium search and learning in a dynamic shing gamethat is played by independent shermen and by members of an information sharingCooperative. Once collected, information about the location of productive sh-ing sites is an excludable public good. We show that independent...

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Carbon Leakage: The Role of Sequential Policy Setting

Sikdar, Shiva; Lapan, Harvey E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010

We analyze non-cooperative environmental policy when the only strategic interac-tion between countries is through bilateral transboundary pollution, i.e., countries areclosed or small open economies. When countries set pollution taxes simultaneously,there is no carbon leakage. However, in the...

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Hierarchy of players in swap robust votinggames and minimal winning coalitions

Bishnu, Monisankar; Roy, Sonali - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2009

Ordinarily, the process of decision making by a committee through voting is mod-elled by a monotonic game the range of … whose characteristic function is restricted tof0; 1g: The decision rule that governs the collective action of a voting body … induces ahierarchy in the set of players in terms of the a-priori influence that the players haveover the decision making …

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FAIRNESS: A CHALLENGE FOR THE DISTRIBUTIONOF COOPERATION GAINS IN VALUE CHAINS

Zelewski, Stephan; Jene, Susanne - Institut für Produktion und Industrielles … - 2011

cooperativegame theory approach as its basis. With the aid of the t-value, it is shown how intuitive and vagueassociations of fairness …

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Fair Distribution of Profit in Supply Chains

Jene, Susanne; Zelewski, Stephan - Institut für Produktion und Industrielles … - 2011

Most scientific publications on the subject of supply chain management only analyzewhich structures, processes and actions can contribute to value creation, oftendisregarding the distribution of profits collectively achieved in a network ofautonomous actors. Distributive justice, or fair...

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A Coase Theorem Based on a New Concept of theCore

Zheng, Charles Zhoucheng - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010

The core is reformulated to incorporate the externality typical in strategic formgames. Any coalition of players may deviate by trying to commit to a profile of actionsdifferent from a status quo. The outsiders of the coalition may take a coordinatedmeasure, incentive-feasibly for themselves, to...

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INCENTIVES AND OUTCOMES IN A STRATEGICSETTING: THE 3-POINTS-FOR-A-WIN SYSTEM INSOCCER

Moschini, GianCarlo - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2008

I exploit a major structural change that has occurred in world soccer to study the impact ofincentives on outcomes in a strategic setting. A game-theoretic model is developed thatcaptures some essential strategic elements of soccer vis-à-vis the number of points awardedto a win. The observable...

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Optimal Monetary Policy Rules under Persistent Shocks

Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Singh, Rajesh Kumar - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2007

The tug-o-war for supremacy between inflation targeting and monetary tar-geting is a classic yet timely topic in monetary economics. In this paper, werevisit this question within the context of a pure-exchange overlapping genera-tions model of money where spatial separation and random relocation...

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Choosing to Keep Up with the Joneses and Income Inequality

Barnett, Richard; Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Bunzel, Helle - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2009

We study a variant of the conventional keeping-up-with-the-Joneses setup in whichheterogeneous-ability agents care both about consumption and leisure and receive anutility premium if their consumption exceeds that of the Joneses’. Unlike the conventionalsetup in which all agents are assumed to...

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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, firms are active in all considered markets, and a...

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