Search Results - subject:"complementarities"

Avola, Maurizio; Gherardini, Alberto; Nisticò, Rosanna - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2013) 1

This paper analyzes the recent transformations of the electronic production system in Catania. During the Nineties, this local system went through a period of rapid growth thanks to the convergence of public policies, a social capital building process, the consolidation of specific human capital...

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Institutional Complementarities and Property Rights-Technology Equilibria under Knowledge Intensive Technology

Gurpinar, Erkan - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2013

The unprecedented development of intellectual property rights (both in scale and scope) has been one of the most important factors in the transformation of the world economy over the last three decades. We argue that, at least in part, economic importance of knowledge has brought an overreaching...

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Immigrant–native wage gaps in time series: Complementarities or composition effects?

Ruist, Joakim - In: Economics Letters 119 (2013) 2, pp. 154-156

correlation has been interpreted as evidence of immigrant–native complementarities in production. The present study finds that it …

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Contests with group-specific public goods and complementarities in efforts

Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 89 (2013) C, pp. 9-22

This paper starts from the observation that in public-goods group contests, group impact can in general not be additively decomposed into some sum (of functions) of individual efforts. We use a CES-impact function to identify the main channels of influence of the elasticity of substitution on...

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Synergy, Conflict and Institutional Complementarities

Landini, Fabio; Pagano, Ugo - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2013

- In biology, the evolution of species is influenced by two types of complementarities. One type is mostly related to … members of the same species. In both conflictual and synergetic complementarities, the traits selected in one domain affect … the traits selected in the other domain, and both complementarities involve the co-evolution of certain traits. However …

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Noise-independent selection in multidimensional global games

Oury, Marion - In: Journal of Economic Theory 148 (2013) 6, pp. 2638-2665

, Equilibrium selection in global games with strategic complementarities, J. Econ. Theory 108 (2003) 1–44] for one …

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Finite supermodular design with interdependent valuations

Mathevet, Laurent; Taneva, Ina - In: Games and Economic Behavior 82 (2013) C, pp. 327-349

This paper studies supermodular mechanism design in environments with arbitrary (finite) type spaces and interdependent valuations. In these environments, the designer may have to use Bayesian equilibrium as a solution concept, because ex-post implementation may not be possible. We propose...

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Monetary and fiscal institutional designs

Dimakou, Ourania - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 4, pp. 1141-1166

support of strategic complementarities; investments in monetary and fiscal institutions reinforce each other. In addition, we …

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The O-ring sector and the Foolproof sector: An explanation for skill externalities

Jones, Garett - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 85 (2013) C, pp. 1-10

to explain this stylized fact. I posit that there are two kinds of jobs: O-ring jobs where strategic complementarities to …

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Noise-independent selection in multidimensional global games

Oury, Marion - In: Journal of economic theory 148 (2013) 6, pp. 2638-2665

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