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When a seller hires an agent to sell his/her property, a successful outcome depends on the list price, marketing time, unobserved relative bargaining power of the buyers and sellers, and the effort levels of the seller and the seller’s agent. A divergence with respect to the list/transaction...
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This paper investigates shifts in cost functions of monopoly and regulated firms operating under conditions of X-inefficiency and rent-seeking behavior. We show that X-inefficiency and rent seeking have significantly different implications for economic welfare. Distinctions are drawn between...
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The set of distribution functions that maximize expected utility for some utility function in a given class is the optimal set. This paper presents an algorithm for determining the optimal set of distributions for an important class of preferences and general finite sets of alternatives. The...
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