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Storage games

open access: yesThe RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study a long‐horizon, oligopolistic market with random shocks to demand that can be arbitraged by two storage operators with finite capacity. This problem applies to any storable commodity—that is, most commodities. Because the arbitrage spread is so sensitive to market power, storage operators face strong incentives to restrain quantities ...
Sergei Balakin, Guillaume Roger
wiley   +1 more source

The Political Economy of Patent Buyouts

open access: yesThe RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Incentivizing innovation through buyouts may alleviate the social costs associated with patent power, but the political economy and feasibility of this potentially important financing mechanism have been understudied. We study an international setting of countries with different innovation and financing capabilities, and where financing ...
Amal Ahmad   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social learning with complex contagion. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Chiba-Okabe H, Plotkin JB.
europepmc   +1 more source

A suitable approach to resource allocation in biosecurity when considering dependent benefits and costs

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Optimal allocation of resources to the management of biosecurity risk, threatened species conservation or natural hazards such as bushfires is imperative—because program budgets are usually finite and, therefore, constrained. However, effectively dividing resources among management activities to achieve the greatest benefit remains a ...
Aaron Dodd, Edith Arndt, Anca Hanea
wiley   +1 more source

How Tether Depegging Affects Cryptocurrency Returns

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between Tether depegging events and the returns of ten major cryptocurrencies from November 2017 to November 2024. We distinguish between upward and downward deviations from the Tether peg, identifying these events as threshold exceedances based on historical prices, using both constant parameter and ...
Sean Foley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Farmers' pro‐social motivations and willingness‐to‐accept in markets with public goods

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract To explain how some farmers' decisions may diverge from profit‐maximization, we incorporate proactive social preferences for public goods in an expected utility framework, in addition to reactive risk preferences to uncertainty. We offer empirical evidence that proactive preferences influence farmers' decisions alongside reactive preferences ...
Jill Fitzsimmons   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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