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Modeling Factions for ‘Effects Based Operations’: Part II – Behavioral Game Theory

Silverman, Barry G; Bharathy, Gnana; Nye, Benjamin; … - 2007

-of-breed social science models, and agent validation efforts is essential if analytic experiments are to effectively explore conflicts …

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Buyer Liability and Voluntary Inspections in International Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading: A Laboratory Study

Cason, Timothy N. - 2000

This paper reports a preliminary laboratory experiment in which traders make investments to increase the reliability of tradable instruments that represent greenhouse gas emissions allowances. In one half of the sessions these investments are unobservable, while in the other half traders can...

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A Meta-Analysis of Hypothetical Bias in Stated Preference Valuation

Murphy, James J.; Allen, Geoffrey; Stevens, Thomas H.; … - 2003

Individuals are widely believed to overstate their economic valuation of a good by a factor of two or three. This paper reports the results of a meta-analysis of hypothetical bias in 28 stated preference valuation studies that report monetary willingness-to-pay and that used the same mechanism...

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Punish in Public

Xiao, Erte; Houser, Daniel - 2006

environments, ranging from American students facing punishment in laboratory experiments, to Israeli parents facing fines for … arriving late to their child’s day care. We show here that enhancing the norm salience role of punishment can eliminate its … evidence that publicly implemented punishment enhances the salience of the violated social norm to both the punished and those …

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Market Power in Tradable Emission Markets: A Laboratory Testbed for Emission Trading in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria

Cason, Timothy N.; Gangadharan, Lata; Duke, Charlotte - 2003

In theory, competitive emission permit markets minimise total abatement cost for any emissionceiling. Permit markets are often imperfectly competitive, however, if they are thin anddominated by large firms. The dominant firm(s) could exercise market power and increase otherfirms’ costs of...

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Hybrid Auctions II: Experimental Evidence

Dutra, Joisa C; Menezes, Flavio - 2001

In this paper we report the results of an experiment designed to examine the properties of a hybrid auction - a Dutch-Vickrey auction, that combines a sealed bid first-price auction with a sealed bid second-price auction. This auction mechanism shares some important features with that used in...

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Characteristics of Service, Structure of Networks, and Forms of Inter-Local Cooperation in Local Service Production: Evidence from Florida

Shrestha, Manoj - 2005

This paper empirically examines the interrelationships between service characteristics and the structure of networks …

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15.568B Management Information Systems: Generating Business Value from Information Technology, Spring 2003

Weill, Peter - 2003

Concepts, frameworks, tools, techniques, and processes that assist management in its interaction with and direction of computer-based information systems today. Discusses the impact of the Internet, changes in the IT industry, and changes in other industries as a result of IT. Also notes the...

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14.662 Labor Economics II, Spring 2005

Autor, David H.; Piore, Michael J. - 2005

The development and evolution of labor market structures and institutions. Particular focus on competing explanations of recent developments in the distribution of wage and salary income and in key institutions and organizational structures. Special attention to theories of worker motivation and...

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7.89 Topics in Computational and Systems Biology, Fall 2007

Burge, Christopher - 2007

This is a seminar based on research literature. Papers covered are selected to illustrate important problems and approaches in the field of computational and systems biology, and provide students a framework from which to evaluate new developments. The MIT Initiative in Computational and Systems...

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