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contracts which determine their managers' salaries. One contract simply gives managers incentives to maximize firm profits …, while the second contract gives an additional sales bonus. Although theory predicts the second contract to be chosen, it is … only rarely chosen in the experimental markets. This behavior is rational given that managers do not play according to the …
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This article studies the design of optimal mechanisms to regulate entry in natural oligopoly markets, assuming the … oligopoly ; entry …
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In this note we study a very simple trial & error learning process in the context of a Cournot oligopoly. Without any …
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On a homogeneous oligopoly market informed sellers are fully aware of market demand whereas uninformed sellers only …. -- evolution ; oligopoly ; market research ; private information …
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In the heterogeneous experimental oligopoly markets of this paper, sellers first choose capacities and then prices. In … setting behavior is in general consistent with the theory. Capacities converge above the Cournot level. Sellers rarely manage …
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performance elasticities are contrary to predictions of agency theory. Both results provide further support to the common belief … that compensation contracts in public corporations seem imperfectly tied to firm performance and managers' tasks. …
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Starting from the objective of banking supervision - to minimize the overall costs of banking to the general public - we show that the current standard of quantifying market risk is flawed. It is perfectly aligned with the interests of banks' shareholders and management, but not with the...
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Qualitative and quantitative properties of the Cornish-Fisher-Expansion in the context of Delta-Gamma-Normal approaches to the computation of Value at Risk are presented. Some qualitative deficiencies of the Cornish-Fisher-Expansion - the monotonicity of the distribution function as well as...
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This paper entertains the notion that disturbances on the demand side play a central role in our understanding of the Great Depression. In fact, from Euler equation residuals we are able to identify a series of unusually large negative demand shocks that appeared to have hit the U. S. economy...
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In a single index Poisson regression model with unknown link function, the index parameter can be root-n consistently estimated by the method of pseudo maximumum likelihood. In this paper, we study, by simulation arguments, the practical validity of the asymptotic behavior of the pseudo maximum...
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