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Who's Who in Crime Network. Wanted the Key Player

Ballester, Coralio; Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - 2004

Criminals are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among criminals are modeled by means of a graph where criminals compete for a booty and benefit from local interactions with their neighbours. Each criminal decides in a non-cooperative way how much crime effort he will exert. We...

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Wholesale Price Discrimination and Parallel Imports

Ganslandt, Mattias; Maskus, Keith E. - 2007

We develop a model of vertical pricing in which an original manufacturer sets wholesale prices in two markets integrated at the distributor level by parallel imports (PI). In this context we show that if competition policy requires uniform wholesale prices across locations it would push retail...

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An Essay on Welfare State Dynamics

Lindbeck, Assar - 2003

The expansion of welfare-state arrangements is seen as the result of dynamic interaction between market behaviour and political behaviour, often with considerable time lags, sometimes generating either virtuous or vicious circles. Such interaction may also involve induced (endogenous) changes in...

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Social Interactions and Labor Market Outcomes in Cities

Zenou, Yves - 2008

We develop a model where information about jobs is essentially obtained through friends and relatives, i.e. strong and weak ties. Workers commute to a business center to work and to interact with other people. We find that housing prices increase with the level of social interactions in the city...

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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Entrepreneurship Policy and Globalization

Douhan, Robin; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2009

use of the Doing Business database, we find, consistent with our theory, evidence that international openness reduces …

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Make-or-buy Decisions and the Manipulability of Performance Measures

Andersson, Fredrik - 2009

The make-or-buy decision is analyzed in a simple framework combining contractual incompleteness with the existence of imperfect but contractible performance measures. Contractual incompleteness gives rise to two regimes, identified with make and buy. The performance measure on which...

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A Continuous Theory of Income Insurance

Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - 2010

In this paper we treat an individual's health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual's health sheds new...

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Acquisitions, Entry and Innovation in Network Industries

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tåg, Joacim - 2011

Why do so many high-priced acquisitions of entrepreneurial firms take place in network industries? We develop a theory …

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Democracy, Autocracy and the Likelihood of International Conflict

Tangerås, Thomas - 2008

This is a game-theoretic analysis of the link between regime type and international conflict. The democratic electorate can credibly punish the leader for bad conflict outcomes, whereas the autocratic selectorate cannot. For the fear of being thrown out of office, democratic leaders are (i) more...

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A Trickle-Down Theory of Incentives with Applications to Privatization and Outsourcing

Andersson, Fredrik - 2009

The make-or-buy decision is analyzed in a three-layer principal-management-agent model. There is a cost …-saving/quality tradeoff in effort provision. The principal chooses between employing an in-house management and contracting with an … independent management; the cost-saving incentives facing the management are, endogenously, weaker in the former case. Cost …

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