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How should we evaluate the welfare implications of improvements to safety technologies in the presence of offsetting behavior? We model this problem as a symmetric game in which each player's payoff depends on his own action and the average action of the other players, and analyze under which...
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Political markets may be curative of political externalities, yet they are often unviable due to the presence of … bargaining externalities. In this paper we study the extent to which the choice of voting dimensions may affect the viability of … desirable in an ideal world of zero-transaction costs, is almost unavoidably affected by bargaining externalities …
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We present a theory to explain government procrastination as a consequence of its present-bias resulting from the political uncertainty in a two-party political system. We show that under a two-party political system the party in office tends to be present-biased. This may lead to inefficient...
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simple economic models, when there are negative externalities (such as congestion effects from use of a commonly owned … resource) or positive externalities (such as a social ethos reflected in individuals' preferences), Kantian equilibria dominate …
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It is well-known that the ability of the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism to implement efficient outcomes for private value choice problems does not extend to interdependent value problems. When an agent's type affects other agents' utilities, it may not be incentive compatible for him to...
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In this paper, I make a connection between a Kantian equilibrium for a game as introduced in Roemer (2010) and a conjectural variation equilibrium as discussed in the literature on oligopolistic competition. I show that, for the class of games studied by Roemer (2010), any Kantian equilibrium is...
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economic models, when there are negative externalities (such as congestion effects from use of a commonly owned resource) or … positive externalities (such as a social ethos reflected in individuals' preferences), Kantian equilibria dominate Nash …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073896
This paper analyses lawyer's choices of law in international sales contracts. It identifies key reasons for opting in or out of the CISG across different jurisdictions. The paper then examines aspects of this choice from economic and psychological perspectives: from the ability to externalize...
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We consider the mechanism design problem when agents' types are multidimensional and continuous, and their valuations are interdependent. If there are at least three agents whose types satisfy a weak correlation condition, then for any decision rule there exist balanced transfers that render...
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It is well-known that the ability of the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism to implement efficient outcomes for private value choice problems does not extend to interdependent value problems. When an agent's type affects other agents' utilities, it may not be incentive compatible for him to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734128