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identical goods is inconsistent with the standard model of price competition among identical firms, which predicts that all …
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. Although there are empirical findings suggesting an influence of such prior experiences on the subsequent behavior, normative … as well as descriptive decision and game theory have not provided yet a thorough theoretical treatment of these effects …. Therefore, this thesis develops first a theoretical fundament. It is based on the Cumulative Prospect Theory, which is extended …
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of behavior by someone else. Such passive errors may also trigger a search for new and better strategies, but the nature … behavior in any game with generic payoffs and at least one pure Nash equilibrium. Unlike regret testing (Foster and Young, 2006 …
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hotspot to compete for the same group of customers, leading to an inevitable price competition. The charged price and the … providers' revenue and social welfare. In this paper, we set up a novel game model to analyze a duopoly price competition. We …
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Learning processes are widely held to be the mechanism by which boundedly rational agents adapt to environmental changes. We argue that this same outcome might also be achieved by a different mechanism, namely specialisation and the division of knowledge, which we here extend to the consumer...
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This dissertation involves two set of papers. The first chapter contains a brief introduction of the issues covered in this thesis. In the first set of papers (chapters 2 and 3) I investigate the use of product standards in international trade. Product standards relate to restrictions on the...
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"This theme paper focuses on political institutions and their effects on social choice. Institutions are argued to play a mediating rolebetween the preferences of individuals and social choices. In addition to playing an endogenous role in molding and channeling preferences, institutions...
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Critics of the trait approach to the study of entrepreneurship have called for adaptation of theory from other … disciplines to explain entrepreneurial behavior. This study responds by focusing on the first step in the process by which … entrepreneurial career preference is developed. Social Learning Theory was used to investigate the link between a parent role model …
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