The recent activity in pension buyouts and bespoke longevity swaps suggests that a significant process of aggregation of longevity exposures is under way, led by major investment banks and buyout firms with the support of leading reinsurers. As regulatory capital charges and limited reinsurance...

We explore the equivalence of local incentive compatibility (LIC) (Carroll (2012)) and incentive compatibility (IC) in non-convex type-spaces. We provide a sufficient condition on a type-space called minimal richness for the said equivalence. Using this result, we show that LIC and IC are...

We explore the relation between different notions of local incentive compatibility (LIC) and incentive compatibility (IC) on ordinal type-spaces. In this context, we introduce the notion of ordinal local global equivalent (OLGE) and cardinal local global equivalent (CLGE) environments. First, we...

Spatial quality choice is introduced, where consumers are horizontally differentiated by taste and firms vertically differentiated by quality location, within an equilibrium model of duopoly competition characterized by asymmetric fixed and variable costs. Firms choose quality location followed...

Renegotiation is a common practice in procurement auctions which allows for post-auction price adjustments and is nominally intended to deal with the problem that sellers might underestimate the eventual costs of a project during the auction. Using a combination of theory and experiments, we...

This article compares centralized with disconnected markets in which n2 strategic agents trade two perfectly divisible goods. In a multi-goods uniform-price double auction (centralized market) traders can make their demand for one good contingent on the price of the other good. Interlinking...

This article compares centralized with disconnected markets in which n2 strategic agents trade two perfectly divisible goods. In a multi-goods uniform-price double auction (centralized market) traders can make their demand for one good contingent on the price of the other good. Interlinking...

This paper discusses the economic and legal challenges of price regulation in spot electricity markets during extreme events, taking the 2021 Texas winter storm as an example. The dual role of spot electricity prices (resource allocation and overall system reliability) in ERCOT's energy-only...

This study explores the micro-level of making economic decisions, focusing on processes and causal relationships using which individuals (agents) take into account each other’s activities. A central concept employed herein is the Shared Mental Model (SMM) used by participants of joint activity...

The emergence of high frequency trading has resulted in ‘bursts’ of orders arriving at an exchange (nearly) simultaneously, yet most electronic financial exchanges im- plement the continuous limit order book which requires processing of orders serially. Contrary to an assumption that appears...