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uncertainty as an additive shock to a uniform consumer distribution. The additive shock restricts uncertainty to the mean of the …
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, with either a negative externality on a third participant, uncertainty about gains from cooperation, or both. Uncertainty … foster cooperation. If we combine both qualifications and do not control for beliefs, we only find an uncertainty effect. If …
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are in contrast with the existing literature. In particular, an increase of demand location uncertainty decreases the … uncertainty about transport costs. Endogenizing the choice of objective function leads to the dominance of an extreme form of …
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preference uncertainty as an additive shock to the consumer distribution in a characteristic space model. The additive shock only …
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From the model of Hobijn and Jovanovic (2001), we modelize a technological shock with uncertainty. We assume that this … technological shock appears in the shape of new firms. Only a part of these firms will be productive. Uncertainty relates to the … identification of the viable firms. This uncertainty decreases with the time and the diffusion of fundamentalist information that …
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-takers concerning their potential legal liability for negligence. …
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This paper analyzes the meaning of comparing the economic performance of strict liability and negligence rule in a … unilateral standard accident model under Knightian uncertainty. It focuses on the cost expectation of major harm on which the … injurers form beliefs. It shows first that, when the Court agrees with the regulator, whatever the liability regime, the first …
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Consider the Hotelling linear spatial duopoly with firm uncertainty over the consumer mean. As uncertainty about the …
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We study the effect of environmental risk on the extraction of a common resource. Using a dynamic and non-cooperative game in which an environmental event impacts both the renewability (the future quantity) and the quality of the resource, we show that the anticipation of such an event has an...
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Two-stage game models of information acquisition in stochastic oligopolies require the assumption that firms observe the precision of information chosen by their competitors before determining quantities. This paper analyzes secret information acquisition as a one-stage game. Relative to the...
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