The objective of this paper is to identify the determinants of office capitalization rates for a panel of 52countries (developed and emerging countries) between 2000 and 2006. Our assumption, based on a CapitalAsset Pricing Model, is that the capitalization rate should be at least proportional...

This paper shows that cycling of the simplex method for the m×n Transportation Problemwhere k-1 zero basic variables are leaving and reentering the basis does not occur once it doesnot occur in the k×k Assignment Problem. A method to disprove cycling for a particular k isapplied for k=2,3,34,5...

The inception of the Emission Trading System in Europe (EU-ETS) has made power price moreexpensive. This affects the competitiveness of electricity intensive industrial consumers and mayforce them to leave Europe. Taking up of a proposal of the industrial sector, we explore thepossible...

We study a particular class of cost sharing games – "data games" – covering situations wheresome players own data which are useful for a project pursued by the set of all players. Theproblem is to set up compensations between players. Data games are subadditive butgenerally not concave, and...

In this paper we propose benchmark values for the coefficients of relative risk aversionand relative prudence on the basis of a binary choice model where the decision makerchooses between aggregating or disaggregating multiplicative risks. We relate ourresults to the decision maker's willingness...

We propose an ob jective for the firm in a general model of production economies extending overtime under uncertainty and with incomplete markets. Trading in commodities and shares of stockoccurs sequentially on spot markets at all date-events. We derive the objective of the firm from...

Competitive aggressiveness is analyzed in a simple spatial oligopolisticcompetition model, where each one of two firms supplies two connectedmarket segments, one captive the other contested. To begin with, firmsare simply assumed to maximize profit subject to two constraints, one relatedto...

In this paper we analyze how the technology used by downstream firms can influence inputand output market prices. We show via an example that both these prices increase under adecreasing returns technology while the contrary holds when the technology is constant....

This paper provides an analysis of legal insider trading on the Euronext Amsterdamstock exchange by using data published in the register held by the AFM, the dutchfinancial markets authority. The sample includes 822 transactions executed bycorporate insiders between the beginning of January 1999...

We analyze the relationship between Antidumping (AD) Protection and the productivity ofEU domestic firms in import-competing industries. For this purpose we identify a panel ofdomestic firms between 1993 and 2003 that at some point during this period are affected byAD initiations. Using a...