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The renewed case for farmers' cooperatives: Diagnostics and implications from Ghana

Francesconi, Gian Nicola; Wouterse, Fleur - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

FBOs collected through surveys and games. We find that most Ghanaian FBOs are inactive, failing to mobilize their members …

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Market games and clubs

Wooders, Myrna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The equivalence of markets and games concerns the relationship between two sorts of structures that appear … fundamentally different -- markets and games. Shapley and Shubik (1969) demonstrates that: (1) games derived from markets with … concave utility functions generate totally balanced games where the players in the game are the participants in the economy …

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Gaming the system

Bay, Thomas; Sjodin, Ulrika; McGoun, Elton G. - In: International Journal of Critical Accounting 3 (2011) 1, pp. 5-17

This paper explores whether financial markets are games, using exchange traded derivatives, those quintessential …

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In the Name of National Pride:Blatant Violation of Workers'Rights at CWG Construction sites

People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR - eSocialSciences - 2010

On 14 December 2008, a worker died in an accident at the same site. What followed was unprecedented: workers at the site struck work and demanded that his body be released and shown to, them. They also demanded better working, living and sanitation conditions. This incidence also paved the way...

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Turning financial markets inside out: how insider trading regulation really works

Sjodin, Ulrika; Bay, Thomas; McGoun, Elton G. - In: International Journal of Critical Accounting 2 (2010) 4, pp. 419-436

livelier and more exciting, almost as if they were games. Now, the so-called 'outsiders' (the public) are in fact confined …

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The Economics of Coercion and Conflict: an Introduction

Harrison, Mark - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2013

This chapter introduces the author’s selected papers on the economics of coercion and conflict. It defines coercion and conflict and relates them. In conflict, adversaries make costly investments in the means of coercion. The application of coercion does not remove choice but limits it to...

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A note on the complexity of determining optimal strategies in games with common payoffs

Woeginger, Gerhard J. - In: Computational Statistics 58 (2003) 2, pp. 183-189

strategies in certain games with common payoffs. This short technical note answers a computational complexity question that was …

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GEOGRAPHIC POSITIONING AS A DETERMINATION OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT OF GEVGELIJA REGION

Gjorgievski, Mijalce; Gramatnikovski, Sasko; Nakovski, … - In: UTMS Journal of Economics 4 (2013) 1, pp. 61-69

The research of this paper is about casinos in the southernmost city in the Republic of Macedonia – Gevgelija, its geographical position and their role on the development of gambling tourism. Gambling tourism as a special form of tourism, for some world famous tourist destinations is the main...

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Games to Create Awareness and Design Policies for Transboundary Cooperation in River Basins: Lessons from the Shariva Game of the Mekong River Commission

Douven, W.; Mul, M.; Son, L.; Bakker, N.; Radosevich, G.; … - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 5, pp. 1431-1447

vision for the future. This article focuses on the role of games in international basin cooperation to create awareness and … games can play in policy analysis, in particular the way the game provided insight in the design of the policy and the …

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Endogenous preferences in games with type indeterminate players

Lambert-Mogiliansky, Ariane - HAL - 2010

strategic decision-making and show that TI-games open a new field of strategic interaction. We first establish an equivalence … result between static games of incomplete information and static TI-games. We next develop a new solution concept for non …-commuting dynamic TI-games. The updating rule captures the novelty brought about by Type Indeterminacy namely that in addition to …

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