This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, somewhat greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...

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Preface -- The making of heterodox microeconomics -- Structure, agency, and modeling the economy -- The business enterprise : structures -- The business enterprise : agency and causal mechanisms -- Markets and demand for the social product -- Competition, the market price, and market governance...

This thesis consists of three independent contributions in the area of microeconomic theory. All three contributions share the feature of agents holding multidimensional private information which motivates the title of the thesis. Part 1, entitled “Consistency and Communication in...

This thesis aims to deepen the theoretical understanding of tax evasion. It focuses particularly, but not exclusively, on corporate tax evasion. Using microeconomic theory, especially contract-theoretic methods, chapters 2 and 3 analyze two features distinguishing corporate from individual tax...

This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...

In October 1956, the RAND Corporation establis hed the Logistics Systems Laboratory (LSL) with the goal of using simulation to translate the broad findings of normative microeconomics into detailed, implementable pr ocedures for US Air Force oper ations. The laboratory was housed in the training...

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Introduction -- Economics : foundations and models -- Trade-offs, comparative advantage, and the market system -- Where prices come from : the interaction of demand and supply -- Economic efficiency, government price setting, and taxes -- Markets in action: policy and applications --...

It's not rational -- The standard narrative and the bigger picture -- Natural science inspirations -- The nobels and neoliberals -- The socialist calculation controversy as the starting point of the economics of information -- Hayek changes his mind -- The neoclassical economics of information...

Preface -- Mathematical preliminaries -- Constraint optimization -- Market interactions -- The consumer theory -- The producer theory -- General equilibrium -- Choice and uncertainty -- Strategic interactions -- Game theory -- Theory of imperfect competition and industry structure -- The...

Preface -- Preferences and utility -- Demand theory -- Demand theory : applications -- Production theory -- Choice under uncertainty -- Partial and general equilibrium -- Monopoly -- Imperfect competition -- Externalities and public goods -- Contract theory -- Notes -- Index

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht, ob bzw. inwiefern die mikroökonomische Theorie geeignet ist, das beobachtbare Verhalten von Individuen in als kompetitiv geltenden Umfeldern zu erklären. Auf Basis eigens erhobener Daten aus dem (professionellen) Sport einerseits und einer in zahlreichen...

One of the basic assumptions of standard economic theory is that individuals' behavior is solely guided by the quest for the highest possible material outcome. However, there is ample evidence of additional factors influencing individuals' behavior as well. Besides individual-specific factors,...

This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters in empirical macroeconomics and analyzes important issues related to monetary policy and labor supply. The first chapter deals with the problem of weak identification in the estimation of inflation dynamics and a monetary policy rule. We...