Search Results - subject:"Commitment problems"

Prices stabilization for inexact unit-commitment problems

Zaourar, Sofia; Malick, Jérôme - In: Mathematical methods of operations research 78 (2013) 3, pp. 341-359

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Knowing Your Enemy: Information and Commitment Problems in Civil Wars

Kirschner, Shanna A. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 54 (2010) 5, pp. 745-770

When do civil wars last especially long? Commitment problems can stymie conflict resolution but they are not … commitment problems. Intergroup interactions provide combatants with one crucial type of information about their adversaries and … perceptions and the severity of commitment problems, in turn affecting the duration of civil wars. …

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Trust in the Balance

Savic, Ivan; Shirkey, Zachary C. - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 21 (2009) 4, pp. 483-507

have focused primarily on informational asymmetries or commitment problems. The article combines these two approaches and … challenge to the balance of power. The model confirms that informational asymmetries often lead to commitment problems, which … are a necessary condition for balancing. However, whether or not informational asymmetries create commitment problems …

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On attenuation of moral hazard in risk sharing in poor urban economies

Alvi, Eskander; Dendir, Seife - In: International Economic Journal 22 (2008) 4, pp. 431-444

This paper examines how risk sharing is shaped by moral hazard and enforcement concerns. The existing literature mostly looks at each concern in isolation and misses out on an interesting tradeoff between insurance and production (effort) that is introduced by jointly incorporating moral hazard...

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Feedback in Tournaments under Commitment Problems: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Gürtler, Oliver; Harbring, Christine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper, we analyze a principal's optimal feedback policy in tournaments. We close a gap in the literature by assuming the principal to be unable to commit to a certain policy at the beginning of the tournament. Our analysis shows that in equilibrium the principal reveals intermediate...

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Commitment Problems and the Political Economy of States and Mafias

Hafer, Catherine; Mesquita, Ethan Bueno de - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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Selective Intervention and Internal HybridsInterpreting and Learning from the Rise and Decline of the Oticon Spaghetti Organization

Foss, Nicolai J. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2001

Infusing hierarchies with elements of market control has become a much-used way of simultaneously increasing entrepreneurialism and motivation in firms. However, this paper argues that such “internal hybrids,” particularly in their radical forms, are inherently hard to successfully design...

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Théorie de la firme et contrats incomplets

Chemla, Gilles - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 1997

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