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Optimal Portfolio Selection of Mean-Variance Utility with Stochastic Interest Rate
Journal of Function Spaces, 2020 In order to tackle the problem of how investors in financial markets allocate wealth to stochastic interest rate governed by a nested stochastic differential equations (SDEs), this paper employs the Nash equilibrium theory of the subgame perfect ...
Shuang Li +4 more
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Economic Harmony—A Rational Theory of Fairness and Cooperation in Strategic Interactions
Games, 2022 Experimental studies show that the Nash equilibrium and its refinements are poor predictors of behavior in non-cooperative strategic games. Cooperation models, such as ERC and inequality aversion, yield superior predictions compared to the standard game ...
Ramzi Suleiman
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Cross‐Ownership and Welfare‐Inferior Price Competition with Relative Profit Delegation Contracts
Bulletin of Economic Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We consider management reward contracts based on relative profit performance under cross‐ownership and find nonequivalence of price and quantity competition. We also examine an endogenous choice of competition mode under unilateral cross‐ownership and show that the welfare‐inferior price competition can appear unless the product's ...
Mingqing Xing, Sang‐Ho Lee
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A ninny, an idiot and an economic theorist
Economica, EarlyView.Abstract Anton Chekhov's story ‘The ninny’ meets the question: ‘What is the meaning of economic theory?’
Ariel Rubinstein
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Resource Competition in Blockchain Networks Under Cloud and Device Enabled Participation
IEEE Access, 2022 Blockchain technology is a promising resource management architecture due to its ability of building trust in a decentralized transaction. Block mining participants, i.e. miners, are incentivized with reward for successfully mining blocks. Unfortunately,
Yuxiang Liang +3 more
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Economica, EarlyView.Abstract I argue that economists' distinction between ‘pure’ and ‘applied’ economic theory is often based on papers' stylistic markers rather than their methodology or scope. I illustrate this point with a model of price competition for boundedly rational consumers, due to Piccione and Spiegler. I first present its original, ‘pure style’ version.
Ran Spiegler
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FogCom:SDN-enabled fog node selection for early detection of communicable diseases
Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences, 2023 A communicable illness is one that spreads from person to person by a number of means, including contact with blood and body fluids, inhaling an airborne virus, or being bitten by an insect.
Joy Lal Sarkar +8 more
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Randomly Albright: The End of Judge Shopping in the Western District of Texas?
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Because judges exercise discretion in how they handle and decide cases, heterogeneity across judges can affect case outcomes and, thus, preferences among litigants for particular judges. However, selection obscures the causal mechanisms that drive these preferences.
Christian Helmers +2 more
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BACKWARD INDUCTION: MERITS AND FLAWS
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2017 Backward induction (BI) was one of the earliest methods developed for solving finite sequential games with perfect information. It proved to be especially useful in the context of Tom Schelling’s ideas of credible versus incredible threats.
Kamiński Marek M.
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RPM and Vertical Integration With Upstream Competition and Noncontractible Efforts
The Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study RPM and vertical integration in a common agency setting with two differentiated manufacturers and one retailer, where consumer demand depends on both the manufacturers' and retailer's noncontractible efforts. Under vertical separation, the adoption of maximum RPM by both manufacturers is an equilibrium and intensifies competition ...
Michele Bisceglia +3 more
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