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Efficiency and the Provision of Open Platforms

Tåg, Joacim - 2008

Private firms may not have efficient incentives to allow third-party producers to access their platform or develop extensions for their products. Based on a two-sided market model, I discuss two reasons for why. First, a private firm may not be able to internalize all benefits from cross-group...

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Patent Scope and Technology Choice

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - 2009

This paper analyzes the effect of an increase in patent scope on R&D and innovation. It presents a model where patent scope affects an entrant firm's technology choice and thereby creates a trade-off between R&D investments and wasteful duplication of R&D. The model predicts that an increase in...

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Robustness to Strategic Uncertainty

Andersson, Ola; Argenton, Cédric; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 2012

In games with continuum strategy sets, we model a player's uncertainty about another player's strategy, as an atomless probability distribution over the other player's strategy set. We call a strategy profile (strictly) robust to strategic uncertainty if it is the limit, as uncertainty vanishes,...

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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation

Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2012

Many governments promote small businesses for the dual reasons of fostering 'breakthrough' innovations and employment growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs' choice of riskiness of an innovation project and on their mode of commercializing the...

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Paying to Remove Advertisements

Tåg, Joacim - 2009

Media firms sometimes allow consumers to pay to remove advertisements from an advertisement-based product. We formally examine an ad-based monopolist's incentives to introduce this option. When deciding whether to introduce the option to pay, the monopolist compares the potential direct revenues...

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Social Networks

de Marti, Joan; Zenou, Yves - 2009

does a poor job in matching real-world networks. We also analyze behaviors on networks, which take networks as given and …

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Kompleksite Iktisadı ve Ajan-Temelli Modelleme: Metodolojik Bir Yaklaşım

Eren, Ercan - 2013

complex structures of the real world. Economy is composed of systems and structures that consist of heterogeneous agents and … game theory, behavioral economics, behavioral game theory, evolutionary game theory, neuroeconomics, experimental economics … and multiple equilibrium, they provide new oportunities to the theory of economics. In this study, firstly, Austrian …

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The measurement of poverty with geographical and intertemporal price dispersion

Muller, Christophe - 1999

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Women's employment, intra-household bargaining and distribution: A two-sector analysis

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 1999

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A generalisation of the Stolper-Samuelson theorem with diversified households: A tale of two matrices

Lloyd, P. J. - 1998

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