Search Results - subject:"precommitment"

Oligopoly Intermediation, Relative Rivalry, and the Mode of Competition

Hamilton, Stephen; Bontems, Philippe; Lepore, Jason - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2013

Policy design in oligopolistic settings depends critically on the mode of competition between firms. We develop a model of oligopoly intermediation that reveals the mode of competition to be an equilibrium outcome that depends on the relative degree of rivalry between firms in the upstream and...

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Oligopoly Intermediation, Relative Rivalry, and the Mode of Competition

Hamilton, Stephen; Bontems, Philippe; Lepore, Jason - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2013

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Oligopoly intermediation, relative rivalry, and the mode of competition

Hamilton, Stephen F.; Bontems, Philipe; Lepore, Jason J. - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416013

Pre-commitment and equilibrium investment strategies for the DC pension plan with regime switching and a return of premiums clause

Bian, Lihua; Li, Zhongfei; Yao, Haixiang - In: Insurance / Mathematics & economics 81 (2018), pp. 78-94

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Time-consistent mean-variance portfolio optimization : a numerical impulse control approach

Staden, Pieter M. van; Dang, Duy Minh; Forsyth, Peter - In: Insurance / Mathematics & economics 83 (2018), pp. 9-28

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Beyond the Need to Boast: Cost Concealment Incentives and Exit in Cournot Oligopoly

Jansen, Jos - Staatswissenschaftliches Seminar, Wirtschafts- und … - 2012

This paper studies the incentives for production cost disclosure in an asymmetric Cournot oligopoly. Whereas the efficient firm (consumers) prefers information sharing (concealment) when the firms choose accommodating strategies in the product market, the firm (consumers) may prefer information...

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Gain without pain : the extended effects of a behavioral health intervention

Mochon, Daniel; Schwartz, Janet; Maroba, Josiase; … - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 63 (2017) 1, pp. 58-72

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Precommitted government spending and partisan politics

Watkins, William; Bohn, Henning - 2011

This paper analyzes government commitments to ongoing spending programs that require future outlays. Spending commitments are important for understanding partisan politics because they constrain future governments. In a model with one government good, a 'stubborn liberal' policy maker can use...

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Naïve and capricious: Stumbling into the ring of self-control conflict

Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, Conny - 2011

agent to act sub-optimally. The agent holds costly pre-commitment technology to avoid the conflict altogether and may decide … whether to procure pre-commitment or to confront the visceral influence. We examine naïve expectations for the strength of the … temptation, and so mistakenly forego pre-commitment. Our analysis reveals conditions under which higher willpower - and lower …

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Naïve and capricious: Stumbling into the ring of self-control conflict

Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, Conny - European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) - 2011

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