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Yoon, Kyoung-Soo - 2008

This dissertation considers three topics in professional advising and forecasting. Chapter 1 examines a principal's optimal contracting with experts. In an environment where experts have heterogeneous private signal distributions and type dependent reservation utilities, we show that the...

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Reinsurance Contracting with Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard: Theory and Evidence

Yan, Zhiqiang - 2009

This dissertation includes two essays on adverse selection and moral hazard problems in reinsurance markets. The first essay builds a competitive principal-agent model that considers adverse selection and moral hazard jointly, and characterizes graphically various forms of separating Nash...

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The Maschler-Perles solution: 2 simple proofs for superadditivity

Rosenmüller, Joachim - 2003

The Maschler-Perles solution is the unique bargaining solution which is superadditive and satisfies the usual covariance properties. We provide two proofs for superadditivity that do not rely on the standard traveling time.

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A value for cephoidal NTU-games

Rosenmüller, Joachim - 2007

A cephoid is an algebraic ("Minkowski") sum of finitely many prisms in R^n. A cephoidal game is an NTU game the feasible sets of which are cephoids. We provide a version of the Shapley NTU value for such games based on the bargaining solution of Maschler-Perles.

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A GERAÇÃO DE EXTERNALIDADES E O PROCESSO DE RECICLAGEM: A APLICAÇÃO DA METODOLOGIA DA ANÁLISE DO CICLO DE VIDA COMO FERRAMENTA GERENCIAL

Souza, Roberta Fernanda Da Paz De - 2008

externalities and the method of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) make part of this device. From its application the adoption of measures …

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An Economic Approach to Climate Change

Bogard, Matt - 2008

situations where choices are incompatible, (often referred to as externalities) and proposing solutions. This presentation … reviews some of the literature and economic theory related to externalities, and focuses on two particular economist …

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The Impact of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Credit Behavior in Colombia

Pineros, Brittany - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer program in Colombia, on participant credit behavior. The motivation of the research is derived from previous studies which indicate that conditional cash transfer programs have effects on households aside from...

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Adaptation, Internalization and Environmental Damage

Abrego, Lisandro; Whalley, John - 2002

significance of these responses to congestion externalities, and argue that they need to be taken into account in designing … internalization instruments. We consider labor-leisure, regional labor mobility and house price responses to congestion externalities … consequences of internalizing externalities. If adaptation is present, externalities will be partially internalized, the gains from …

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Under-connected and over-connected networks

Buechel, Berno; Hellmann, Tim - 2008

. We approach this gap by analyzing the role of positive and negative externalities of link formation. We find general … results that relate situations of positive externalities with stable networks that cannot be "too dense" in a well …-defined sense, while situations with negative externalities, tend to induce "too dense" networks. …

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14.452 Economic Growth, Fall 2008

Acemoglu, Daron - 2008

The basic machines of macroeconomics. Ramsey, Solow, Samuelson-Diamond, RBCs, ISLM, Mundell-Fleming, Fischer-Taylor. How they work, what shortcuts they take, and how they can be used. Half-term subject. From the course home page: Course Description This half semester class presents an...

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