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Grossman, Herschel I. - 2003

This paper develops an explanation for historical differences in the ways in which territorial disputes between sovereign states have been resolved. The main innovation in the analysis is to allow for three possible equilibria: • an unfortified border; • a fortified but peaceful border; and...

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Workers, warriors and criminals: Social conflict in general equilibrium

Dal Bó, Ernesto; Dal Bó, Pedro - 2004

We analyze how economy-wide forces (i.e.shocks to terms of trade, technology and endowments) affect the intensity of social conflict. We see conflict phenomena such as crime and civil war as involving resource appropriation activities. We show that not all shocks that could make society richer...

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The theory of implementation of social choice rules

Serrano, Roberto - 2003

. The theory of implementation or mechanism design formalizes this “social engineering” problem and provides answers to the … question just posed. I survey the theory of implementation in this article, emphasizing the results based on two behavioral …

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Structural changes in the cointegrated vector autoregressive model

Hansen, Peter Reinhard - 2001

This paper generalizes the cointegrated vector autoregressive model of Johansen (1988) to allow for structural changes. Estimation under various hypotheses is made possible by a new estimation technique, that makes it simple to derive a number of interesting likelihood ratio tests. E.g., the...

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Marginal contributions and externalities in the value

De Clippel, Geoffroy; Serrano, Roberto - 2005

Our concern is the extension of the theory of the Shapley value to problems involving externalities. Using the standard …

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Pareto improving monetary policy in incomplete markets

Turner, Sergio; Tumennasan, Norovsambuu - 2006

We show that for generic economies, every equilibrium admits Pareto improving monetary policy, even with multiple commodities per state. The main assumption is that asset incompleteness be intermediate, in that household heterogeneity does not exceed the number of assets present and absent. We...

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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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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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