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Essays in empirical industrial economics
Zulehner, Christine - 2001
This thesis consists of two parts, which are connected by an introduction on auction and oligopoly markets and a short …
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Four Essays in Insurance
Sonnenholzner, Michael - 2005
This thesis contains four essays which are all from the broader field of insurance economics. The chapters can be read independently, although there is a certain connection between the articles. Chapter 2, which deals with moral hazard, and chapter 3, which is on oligopolistic models in the...
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On singular control games : with applications to capital accumulation
Steg, Jan-Henrik - 2010
The aim of this work is to establish a mathematically precise framework for studying games of capital accumulation under uncertainty. Such games arise as a natural extension from different perspectives that all lead to singular control exercised by the agents, which induces some essential...
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Matching Issues: An auction with externalities and unraveling matching markets
Ranger, Martin - 2005
This dissertation examines two problems that may arise in matching problems.The first two chapters deal with auctions for multiple units where bidders exhibitexternalities. The third chapter links risk aversion and information to unraveling inlabor markets.Auctions can lead to efficient...
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Three Essays on Vertical Product Differentiation: Exclusivity, Non-exclusivity and Advertising
Costantino, Cesar - 2004
Since Hotelling's (1929) seminal work, economists have tried to understand how product differentiation affects price competition. I study the product location decisions, on a vertical characteristic space, of two sets of horizontal competitors when the inputs supplied by the "upstream" set (the...
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Fluctuations and rigidities in local labor markets, part II: reinterpreting contract theory
Clark, Gordon L. - 1983
rigidities. Neoclassical implicit contract theory has been vindicated. Or has it? Obvious empirical difficulties remain … the processes of production and exchange, principles of an alternative conceptualization of contract theory are sketched … local labor markets, part 2: reinterpreting contract theory', Environment and Planning A, 15(3), 365-377. [Available at http://www.envplan.com/A.html]. …
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Factores que determinan la presencia de problemas entre productores de fruta fresca y empresas exportadoras, en la Zona Central de Chile
Avendano, Daniela; Reyes, Alvaro - 2009
Published by Asociación de Economistas Agrarios de Chile
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Three Essays on Professional Advising.
Yoon, Kyoung-Soo - 2008
This dissertation considers three topics in professional advising and forecasting. Chapter 1 examines a principal's optimal contracting with experts. In an environment where experts have heterogeneous private signal distributions and type dependent reservation utilities, we show that the...
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Reinsurance Contracting with Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard: Theory and Evidence
Yan, Zhiqiang - 2009
This dissertation includes two essays on adverse selection and moral hazard problems in reinsurance markets. The first essay builds a competitive principal-agent model that considers adverse selection and moral hazard jointly, and characterizes graphically various forms of separating Nash...
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Incentive Compatibility and Efficiency in the Contractual Insurer-Provider Relationship - Economic Theory and Practical Implications: The Case of North Carolina
Schmid, Andreas - 2007
. Ausgehend von verschiedenen Aspekten der Vertragstheorie erfolgt eine Spezifikation auf die Besonderheiten des Gesundheitswesens … providers. An introduction to relevant aspects of contract theory is followed by their adaptation to the characteristics of the … conflicts of interest once a contract has been sealed (ex post). The theory based conclusions are contrasted with the situation …
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