mathematical tools. It covers topics such as economic behavior, consumer theory, theory of the firm, partial and general … equilibrium theory, industrial organization, bargaining theory, and Pareto optimality. Students learn not only about economic …

This Element offers a review and synthesis of the theoretical analysis of mixed oligopoly, that is a hybrid market … feature of a mixed oligopoly is that firms have different objectives. A public firm's objective is a notion of social welfare …, together with several applications from diverse subfields spanning industrial organisation, applied microeconomic theory …

The present thesis examines if and to what extent microeconomic theory can explain the observable behavior of …Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht, ob bzw. inwiefern die mikroökonomische Theorie geeignet ist, das beobachtbare …

One of the basic assumptions of standard economic theory is that individuals' behavior is solely guided by the quest … employee behavior during and after the tournament is affected by the design of a firm's promotion scheme. To this aim, the two …