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To analyze welfare effects of input markets changes, economists studied the relationship between the surplus measured in the input markets and the surplus in the output markets. The latest results hinge on simplifying assumptions, which are relaxed here by linking the input markets surplus...
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This paper proves that Nash's exchange theory leads to inefficiency. Instead of coming to a vertex, the exchange leads … to polarization. This paper questions Nash's method of exchange and suspects that his theory is not about bargaining …
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Nash (1950) proposes a bargaining theory. This paper proves that Nash's theory leads to unfair result. The reason for …
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complete exhaustion of the resource, it contains two pies. The Cournot competition model, the underlying theory of the …
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It is known that in a two-country, two-good world, the Nash equilibrium of a 'tariff war' of Harry Johnson (1953-4) tends to fail Pareto Optimality. With a demonstration by example, this note shows that it is possible that the attempt for trade liberalization through the removal of tariffs may...
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Game theory, in its most basic form, considers two or more players and analyses the different strategies that they can … theory in international trade we could determine if the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model is correct and what would be the best … specialization for each country. The aim of this paper is to test if game theory could be successfully used in a thorough analysis of …
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We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel, a comprehensive dataset of manufacturing firms for 2011–2015. Uniquely, the data provides information about the severity of key business constraints, across both male and...
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IIn the past few decades, many Taiwanese firms have served as subcontractors to the United States and Japanese branding firms. For example, in 2007, Taiwanese firms accounted for 90% of the world’s laptop output. However, over 90% of this output was under the foreign outsourcing firms’...
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This paper examines the impact of coalitions on the economic costs of the 2012 Iran and 2014 Russia sanctions. By estimating and simulating a quantitative general equilibrium trade model under different coalition set-ups, we (i) dissect welfare losses for sanction-senders and target; (ii)...
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