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A comparison of the average prekernel and the prekernel

Serrano, Roberto; Shimomura, Ken-ichi - 2001

We propose positive and normative foundations for the average prekernel of NTU games, and compare them with the existing ones for the prekernel. In our non-cooperative analysis, the average prekernel is understood as the equilibrium payoffs of a game where each player faces the possibility of...

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Markets and contracts

Bisin, A - 2001

Economies with asymmetric information are encompassed by an extension of the model of general competitive equilibrium that does not require an explicit modeling of private information. Sellers have discretion over deliveries on contracts; this is in common with economies with default, incomplete...

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Lavish returns on cheap talk: Non-binding communication in a trust experiment

Ben-Ner, Avner; Putterman, Louis; Ren, Ting - 2007

We let subjects interact with anonymous partners in trust (investment) games with and without one of two kinds of pre-play communication: numerical (tabular) only, and verbal and numerical. We find that either kind of pre-play communication increases trusting, trustworthiness, or both, in...

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Unemployment and indeterminacy

Nakajima, Tomoyuki - 2003

Using an efficiency-wage model, we examine the relationship between indeterminacy and unemployment insurance. It is shown that the less unemployment insurance is, the more likely equilibrium is to be indeterminate. Equilibrium can be indeterminate even without externalities or increasing...

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Natural selection and the origin of economic growth

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - 2000

This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the interplay between the evolution of mankind and … economic growth since the emergence of the human species. This uni…ed theory encompasses the observed evolution of population … theory suggests that prolonged economic stagnation prior to the transition to sustained growth stimulated natural selection …

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Federalism and the optimal degree of centralization of public goods

Kolmar, Martin - 2001

In this paper we analyze the optimal degree of centralization for the supply of public goods. We identify the reliance on an exclusion mechanism as a central feature of the decentralized provision of public goods. An exclusion mechanism induces a contest between users of the public goods who...

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Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit and the process of development

Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2006

This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the evolution of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved nonmonotonically in the course of human...

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How much trade does the transfer paradox require?

Turner, Sergio - 2006

Samuelson (1947) stated that a regular equilibrium exhibits the transfer paradox if and only if it is unstable. Gale (1974) and many in the early 1980’s debunked this equivalence by adding extra countries, reaching an anti consensus. We reinterpret Samuelson’s result as identifying the...

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Inequality in land ownership, the emergence of human capital promoting institutions, and the great divergence

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - 2006

. The prediction of the theory regarding the adverse effect of the concentration of land ownership on education expenditure …

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Bargaining and competition revisited

Kunimoto, Takashi; Serrano, Roberto - 2002

We show the robustness of the Walrasian result obtained in models of bargaining in pairwise meetings. Restricting trade to take place only in pairs, most of the assumptions made in the literature are dispensed with. These include assumptions on preferences (differentiability, monotonicity,...

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