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Classical, Modern, and New Game Theory / Klassische, Moderne und Neue Spieltheorie
Holler, Manfred J. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 222 (2002) 5, pp. 556-583
Zusammenfassung Im folgenden Überblick zur Geschichte der Spieltheorie stehen die unterschiedlichen Annahmen über die … Entwicklung der Spieltheorie begleiteten und zu dem führten, was viele als ihren Fortschritt ansehen. Die erste Stufe der … Entwicklung, die Klassische Spieltheorie, ist durch John von Neumanns und Oskar Morgensterns Werk „Game Theory and Economic …
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The Politics of Surprise Devaluations: Modelling Motives for Giving Up a Peg
Bohn, Frank - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 233 (2013) 5-6, pp. 562-574
Summary Planned ‘‘surprise’’ devaluations are often spurred by non-economic circumstances: a rentseeking government; political instability; or the opportunity to put the blame on a predecessor government. In this paper, these aspects are incorporated in the monetary and fiscal policy...
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Entrepreneurship, corruption, and the size of US underground economies
Wiseman, Travis - In: Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy 4 (2015) 3, pp. 313-330
Purpose – Using state-level data on productive and unproductive entrepreneurship, shadow economy size, and public official corruption, the purpose of this paper is to examine whether formal sector productive (unproductive) entrepreneurial activity is associated with lower (higher) levels of...
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Resource curse or destructive creation in transition
Hoang Vuong, Quan; K. Napier, Nancy - In: Management Research Review 37 (2014) 7, pp. 642-657
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the “resource curse” problem as a counter-example of creative performance and innovation by examining reliance on capital and physical resources, showing the gap between expectations and ex-post actual performance that became clearer under...
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Seitz und Stackelberg über das Oligopol / Seitz and Stackelberg on Oligopoly
Heertje, Arnold - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 218 (1999) 5-6, pp. 712-724
einen Überblick vom Standpunkt der Spieltheorie her.  …
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Erfordert die Europäische Währungsunion die Koordination der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik in den Mitgliedsländern? / Does the EMU necessitate the Co-ordination of Active Labour Mark...
Jochem, Axel - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 219 (1999) 5-6, pp. 673-684
Zusammenfassung Durch den Vertrag von Amsterdam vom 2. Oktober 1997 wurde der acquis communautaire der Europäischen Union um ein Kapitel zur gemeinsamen Beschäftigungspolitik erweitert. Ihr Schwerpunkt liegt in der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Die vorliegende Arbeit geht der Frage nach,...
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Reputation, Drohungen und Vergeltung: Wiederholte Spiele als Bezugsrahmen für die Analyse von Markteintritten
Kohn, Karsten - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 63 (2014) 2, pp. 185-216
Abstract Despite descriptive empirical evidence on start-up numbers and survival rates of young firms, the interaction of market entry decisions and reactions of incumbent competitors is still insufficiently understood in the entrepreneurship literature. Repeated games offer a suitable...
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Contests with Ties
Cohen, Chen; Sela, Aner - In: The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 7 (2007) 1
We study two-player all-pay contests in which there is a positive probability of a tied outcome. We show that the … the prize for winning. The implications of this result are twofold. First, in symmetric one-stage contests, the designer …-third of the prize for winning. Second, in multi-stage contests, the designer should not limit the number of stages (tie …
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Piece Rates vs. Contests in Product Market Competition
Stadler, Manfred; Pull, Kerstin - In: Review of Economics 66 (2015) 3, pp. 273-287
Abstract We study product market competition between firm owners (principals) where workers (agents) decide on their efforts and, hence, on output levels. Various worker compensation schemes are compared: a piece-rate compensation as a benchmark when workers’ output performance is verifiable,...
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Are Experienced Managers Experts at Overcoming Coordination Failure?
Cooper, David J - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 6 (2006) 2
This paper studies experiments set in a corporate environment where a manager attempts to overcome a history of …
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