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Learning buyers' valuation distribution in posted-price selling

Wang, Ruqu; Chen, Yongmin - In: Economic Theory 14 (1999) 2, pp. 417-428

, and derive a rather tight sufficient condition under which these prices decline over time. An example is provided where … the optimal prices can actually increase over time if the condition is violated. …

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Self-confidence and survival

Bar-Isaac, Heski - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

We consider the impact of history on the survival of a monopolist selling single units in discrete time periods, whose …

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Fossil Resources and Climate Change – The Green Paradox and Resource Market Power Revisited in General Equilibrium

Pfeiffer, Johannes - 2017

Diese Dissertation wurde von Johannes Pfeiffer während seiner Zeit am ifo Institut verfasst. Sie wurde im Dezember 2016 …

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The timing of climate agreements under multiple externalities

Schmidt, Robert C.; Strausz, Roland - 2011

We study the potential of cooperation in global emission abatements with multiple externalities. Using a two-country model without side-payments, we identify the strategic effects under different timing regimes of cooperation. We obtain a positive complementarity effect of long-term cooperation...

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Experimental evidence on dynamic pollution tax policies

Vossler, Christian A.; Suter, Jordan F.; Poe, Gregory L. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (2013) C, pp. 101-115

across policy designs, which can be explained with a theory that allows for a mix of strategic and myopic firms, along with …

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The optimal carbon sequestration in agricultural soils : does the dynamics of the physical process matter ?.

Ragot, Lionel; Schubert, Katheline - Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Paris 1 … - 2006

The Kyoto Protocol, which came in force in February 2005, allows countries to resort to "supplementary activities" consisting particularly in carbon sequestration in agricultural soils. Existing papers studying the optimal carbon sequestration recognize the importance of the temporality of...

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Building Blocks for Barriers to Riches

Kocherlakota, Narayana - 2008

Total factor productivity (TFP) differs greatly across countries. In this paper, I provide a novel rationalization for these differences. I consider two environments, one in which enforcement is full and the other in which enforcement is limited. In both settings, manufactured goods can be...

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Role models that make you unhappy : light paternalism, social learning and welfare

Cordes, Christian; Schubert, Christian - 2010

Behavioral (e.g. consumption) patterns of boundedly rational agents can lead these agents into learning dynamics that … preference learning that can inform the construction of alternative notions of dynamic well-being. Based on the assumption that … dynamic instability in preference trajectories. -- Social Learning ; Preference Change ; Welfare ; Human Cognition ; Consumer …

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The Optimal Allocation of Resources among Heterogeneous Individuals

Wang, Fan - 2020

A planner has Atkinson-CES preference aggregation over individual outcomes and allocates W units of discrete or bounded-continuous resources among N candidate recipients. Conditional on observables, outcomes without allocations and the marginal effects of allocations are heterogeneous across...

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Experimentation in two-sided markets

Peitz, Martin; Rady, Sven; Trepper, Piers - 2015

optimal level. This interplay between learning and surplus extraction is crucial to the market outcome and its dynamics. …

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