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A TRADE NETWORK GAME WITH ENDOGENOUS PARTNER SELECTION
Tesfatsion, Leigh - 1995
This paper develops a Trade Network Game (TNG) that combines evolutionary game play with endogenous partner selection. Resource-constrained buyers and sellers choose and refuse trade partners on the basis of continually updated expected payoffs. Partner selection takes place in accordance with a...
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On solution concepts of assignment games
Hoffmann, Maike - 2008
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Do Static Externalities Offset Dynamic Externalities? An Experimental Study of the Exploitation of Substitutable Common-Pool Resources
Giordana, Gaston A.; Montginoul, Marielle; Willinger, Marc - 2010
Overexploitation of coastal aquifers may lead to seawater intrusion, which irreversibly degrades groundwater. The seawater intrusion process may imply that its consequences would not be perceptible until after decades of accumulated overexploitation. In such a dynamic setting, static...
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Making sense of financial education
Klein, Valerie - 2007
A major area of concern for sociologists and economists who study poverty and inequality is the financial well being of low-income individuals as measured by their opportunities to participate in what is considered the "mainstream financial market." Scholars suggest that a myriad of factors,...
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Teaching Statistics in a Spreadsheet Environment Using Simulation
Barr, Graham D; Scott, Leanne - 2011
The authors’ experiences with a new teaching approach in an introductory statistics course involving some 1200 first … teaching of statistics within a spreadsheet environment whereby students are, inter alia, required to master the basics of MS … exploring the statistical distributions of a number of pieces of information generated by the students. Teaching sessions are …
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Identifying key competences of industrial design and technology graduates in small and medium-sized enterprises
Garner, Steve; Duckworth, Adrian - 1999
Industrial design graduates can be true ‘agents of change’ in manufacturing industry andnowhere is this potential more valuable than in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)where flexibility and speed of response are essential and which make up 94% of the UK economy.However, little...
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Pedagogical innovations in sustainable development: Fair trade in the classroom
Lewis, Katrina; Dickinson, Torry; Lewis, Summer - 2009
trade. In Women’s Studies, another educator introduces students to active learning via academic readings and volunteer work … groups that work with women-owned cooperatives in Mexico and Nicaragua. By teaching nonviolence studies, this educator helps …’s Studies to initiate learning experiences in Central America that will enable the student organization “Engineers Beyond …
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Dynamic stability in repeated games
Puente Díaz, Sergio - 2006
A concept of dynamic stability in infinitely repeated games with discounting is presented. For this purpose, one modification of the available theory is needed: we need to relax the assumption that the game starts in a given period. Under this new framework, we propose stable strategies such...
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14.123 Microeconomic Theory III, Spring 2009
Eso, Peter - 2009
This half-semester course discusses decision theory and topics in game theory. We present models of individual decision-making under certainty and uncertainty. Topics include preference orderings, expected utility, risk, stochastic dominance, supermodularity, monotone comparative statics,...
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Changing petroleum engineering education to meet industry demand
Department of Petroleum Engineering
; changing the block form of teaching to a semester-based form; and having the Commonwealth recognise the new Masters program for … 50% increase in staff to stabilise teaching, a 400% increase in active PhD students, and industry projects to deliver an …
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