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A two-sided reputation result with long run
Atakan, Alp; Ekmekci, Mehmet - 2009
, i.e., a two-sided reputation result would hold. In this note we show that this conjecture is indeed true for a wide set … of stage games for which the one-sided reputation result of Atakan and Ekmekci (2008) holds. -- Repeated Games … ; Reputation ; Equal Discount Factor ; Long-run Players ; War of Attrition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008665867
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Male and female competitive behavior : experimental evidence
Gupta, Nabanita Datta (contributor);  … - 2005
Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280790
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Group selection : the quest for social preferences
Salomonsson, Marcus - 2009
This paper surveys the literature on group selection. I describe the early contributions and the group selection controversy. I also describe the main approaches to group selection in the recent literature; fixation, assortative group formation, and reproductive externalities. -- Altruism ; spite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811816
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Arbitration and bargaining across the Pacific
Deck, Cary A.; Farmer, Amy; Zeng, Dao-Zhi - In: Southern economic journal 76 (2009) 1, pp. 183-197
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Speculative trade under unawareness : the infinite case
Meier, Martin; Schipper, Burkhard - 2010 - First draft: March 1, 2007, This draft: February 5, 2010
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Damming trans-boundary rivers : a welfare analysis of conflict and cooperation
Zeng, Yuyu; Houba, Harold; Dinar, Ariel; Marence, Miroslav - 2016
Dams are essential for water storage and hydropower generation, but change river flow patterns and endanger local environments. Dam projects may further exacerbate already existing problems in trans-boundary rivers. We consider three scenarios of institutional factors: (1) each country pursues...
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Expectation damages and bilateral cooperative investments
Gollery, Daniel - 2012
We examine the efficiency of the standard breach remedy expectation damages in a setting of bilateral cooperative investment by a buyer and a seller. Contracts may specify a required quality level and an upper bound to the cost of production. We find that it is optimal to write an augmented...
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Consuming your way to efficiency : public goods provision through non-distortionary tax lotteries
Giebe, Thomas; Schweinzer, Paul - 2013
We revisit the classical result that financing a pure public good through taxation of private consumption is inefficient. To this standard setup we add a consumption contest in which consumers can win a prize. We show that an appropriately chosen contest - which we call a 'tax lottery' - can...
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Reactivity in economic science
Frey, Bruno S. - 2017
There is a fundamental difference between the natural and the social sciences due to reactivity. This difference remains even in the age of Artificially Intelligent Learning Machines and Big Data. Many academic economists take it as a matter of course that economics should become a natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700543
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Bargaining and conflict with up-front investments : how power asymmetries matter
Schaller, Zachary; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2019
We examine settings - such as litigation, labor relations, or arming and war - in which players first make non-contractible up-front investments to improve their bargaining position and gain advantage for possible future conflict. Bargaining is efficient ex post, but we show that a player may...
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