In a wide variety of social settings (e.g. crime, education, political activism, technology adoption), players' returns to their efforts depend on how much effort others exert. Modeling these situations as a network game with strategic complementarities, we show that a player's cycle centrality...

To broaden the scope of monetary policy, cash abolishment is often suggested as a means of breaking through the zero lower bound. However, practically nothing is said about the welfare costs of such a proposal. Rösl, Seitz and Tödter argue that the welfare costs of bypassing the zero lower...