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A note on Wick products and the fractional Black-Scholes model
Björk, Tomas; Hult, Henrik - 2005
In some recent papers, such as Elliott & van der Hoek, Hu & Öksendal, a fractional Black-Scholes model have been proposed as an improvement of the classical Black-Scholes model. Common to these fractional Black-Scholes models, is that the driving Brownian motion is replaced by a fractional...
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Creditor coordination with social learning and endogenous timing of credit decisions
Schüle, Tobias - 2006
In case of multiple source lending even solvent firms may be forced into bankruptcy due to uncoordinated credit withdrawals of their lenders. This paper analyzes whether a debtor firm can thwart such inefficient liquidations by offering creditors the option to delay their foreclosure decision...
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Taking a shower in Youth Hostels: risks and delights of heterogeneity
Matzke, Christina; Challet, Damien - 2008
Tuning one's shower in some hotels may turn into a challenging coordination game with imperfect information. The temperature sensitivity increases with the number of agents, making the problem possibly unlearnable. Because there is in practice a finite number of possible tap positions, identical...
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Characteristics of Terrorism
Pittel, Karen; Rübbelke, Dirk - 2009
just obeying and, hence, to be irrational. In this paper we offer a different approach which postulates rationality of all …
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Decision Processes of a Suicide Bomber – Integrating Economics and Psychology
Pittel, Karen; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2009
This paper provides a theoretical analysis regarding the rationality of suicide attacks from an economist’s point of … psychological concepts of cognitive dissonance and terror management theory into our economic analysis, we demonstrate why … – although predicted by standard economic theory – defection is a phenomenon rarely observed. We finally present some policy …
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Inducing human capital formation: Migration as a substitute for subsidies
Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2001
When productivity is fostered by an individual's own human capital as well as by the economy-wide average level of human capital, individuals under-invest in human capital. The provision of subsidies for the formation of human capital, conditional on the subsidy being self-financed by tax...
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Externalities in Recruiting
Kräkel, Matthias; Lammers, Frauke; Szech, Nora - 2011
According to the previous literature on hiring, ?rms face a trade-off when deciding on external recruiting: From an incentive perspective, external recruiting is harmful since admission of external candidates reduces internal workers’ career incentives. However, if external workers have high...
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Externalities, communication and the allocation of decision rights
Bester, Helmut - 2005
This paper views authority as the right to undertake decisions that impose externalities on other members of the …
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On the Stability of Hierarchies in Games with Externalities
Currarini, Sergio - 2003
Demange (1994, 2002), extend to partition function games with negative externalities. Under positive externalities, although …
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Bidding among Friends and Enemies
Ettinger, David - 2003
paid by the winner. We study the impact of these price-externalities on the first-price auction and the second … independently from the identity of the winner. We prove that the first-price auction is not affected by this kind of price-externalities … by the presence of such price-externalities. In any case, in comparison with the first-price auction, the second …
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