Our paper considers a dynamic interaction in a buyer-seller network. The network that we consider is a hospital-HMO network which forms a two-sided market in which the HMO is a platform which facilitates an interaction between consumers and hospitals. Hospitals have different locations and may...

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Due to increasing concern with climate change, producing energy from the wind has become an tool to substitute electric production away from fossil fuels. In the last decade, wind power capacity has grown tenfold, reaching 42% of newly installed electric capacity in 2008, yet accounts for less...

[fre] Cette étude est une tentative pour estimer le taux d'obsolescence des revenus rapportés par un brevet, ainsi que la distribution de ces revenus. Les estimations sont fondées sur un modèle simple de renouvellement des brevets et sur deux ensembles de données :. le premier pour quatre...

The US health reforms of March 2010 introduced new provisions for physicians providing Medicare and Medicaid services to be given financial incentives to control costs. Physician payment mechanisms generating similar incentives are currently used by some health maintenance organizations in...

We develop a framework for the analysis of dynamic oligopolies with persistant sources of asymmetric information that enables applied analysis of situations of empirical importance that have been difficult to deal with. The framework generates policies that are "relatively" easy for agents to...