Search Results - subject:"complementarities"

Career Choice, Marriage-Timing,and the Attraction of Unequals

Dessy, Sylvain; Djebbari, Habiba - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

show that women’s marriage-timing decisions exhibit strategic complementarities. Coordination failures in women’s marriage …

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Some Notes on Learning in Games with Strategic Complementarities

Berger, Ulrich - EconWPA - 2004

Fictitious play is the classical myopic learning process, and games with strategic complementarities are an important … strategic complementarities and diminishing marginal returns (Krishna, 1992, HBSWorking Paper 92-073). This result is known to … allows us to drop this assumption. More importantly, an ordinal version of strategic complementarities turns out to suffice …

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Information Technology as an Engine of Broad-Based Growth in India

Singh, Nirvikar - EconWPA - 2004

In this paper, we survey some of the developments in India’s IT sector, and prospects for broad-based growth led by this sector. We examine the IT sector, discussing the role of software versus hardware, the growth pattern of the software industry and software exports, and the potential...

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Screening Contracts in the Presence of Positive Network Effects

Csorba, Gergely - Econometric Society - 2004

Based on the critical assumption of strategic complementarity, this paper builds a general model to describe and solve the screening problem faced by the monopolist seller of a network good. By applying monotone comparative static tools, we demonstrate that the joint presence of asymmetric...

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Coordination Failures and Asset Prices

Tsyvinski, Aleh; Hellwig, Christian; Mukherji, Arihit - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

We augment a standard global coordination game along the lines of Morris and Shin (1998) by an asset market where prices are determined in a noisy Rational Expectations Equilibrium. We study the implications of information aggregation through prices for equilibrium selection arguments in global...

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The Economics of Real Superstars: The Market for Rock Concerts in the Material World

Krueger, Alan - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2004

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Information Technology and India’s Economic Development

Singh, Nirvikar - EconWPA - 2004

This paper discusses the possibilities for broad-based IT-led economic growth in India, including increasing value-added, using better telecom links to capture more benefits domestically through offshore development for developed country firms, greater spillovers to the local economy, broadening...

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The Economics of Real Superstars: The Market for Rock Concerts in the Material World

Krueger, Alan - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2004

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Spatial Proximity and Complementarities in the Trading of Tacit Knowledge

Aydogan, Neslihan; Lyon, Thomas P. - EconWPA - 2004

-to-face contact, making spatial proximity important. When there are sufficient “complementarities” in knowledge exchange, successful … exchange is facilitated if firms can meet in a central location,thereby economizing on travel costs. When complementarities are …

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Multiple social interactions and reproductive externalities: An investigation of fertility behaviour in Kenya

Weeks, Melvyn; Iyer, Sriya - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper examines empirically the impact of reproductive externalities on fertility behaviour in one developing society - Kenya. We examine this issue by quantifying the effects of group membership on the number of children ever born. The focus of this study is the identification of structural...

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