We analyse a non-zero sum two-person game introduced by Teraoka and Yamada to model the strategic aspects of production development in manufacturing. In particular we investigate how sensitive their solution concept (Nash equilibrium) is to small variations in their assumptions. It is proved...

The main goal of monetary authority is to create a stable output and price level in the economy. Policies to be used depend upon the relative weights of above goals for the monetary authority. Also, the expectations of other economic institutions are important for policy determination. Within...

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine the tournament hypothesis in the UK mutual fund market. Based on a previous US study, fund managers were expected to alter risk-taking behaviour in response to their performance relative to competing fund managers. Design/methodology/approach...

This paper introduces a theoretical framework for collective decision making to describe fluctuations and transitions in financial markets. Investors are assumed to be boundedly rational, using a limited set of information including past price history and expectation on future dividends....

Este es material de curso del libro Decisiones Empresariales bajo Riesgo e Incertidumbre. El nivel del libro es basico. Se usan muy pocas matematicas y puede ser usado por gerentes. En este tercer capitulo se trata la idea de la incertidumbre. Se ilustran los diferentes enfoques de teoria de...

A game with precedence constraints is a TU game with restricted cooperation, where the set of feasible coalitions is a distributive lattice, hence generated by a partial order on the set of players. Its core may be unbounded, and the bounded core, which is the union of all bounded faces of the...

This paper focuses on the relationship between the concept of social capital and the role of the civl economy as source of pro-social values and norms that constitute the individuals determinants of social capital.

The general aim of this paper is to contribute to the study of factors that decrease corruption in the public sector and especially in tax administration. A matter of particular interest will be the effects of raising civil servants’ wages and penalties on the behavior of agents in case of tax...

We extend the theoretical model of external corporate financing to the case when the buyers of the borrowing firm may default during the financing period. In our setup there is an asymmetric information and hence moral hazard between the lender and the borrower concerning the effrts of the...