Now showing items 41-60 of 110

    • Thumbnail

      Quaternary dichotomous voting rules 

      Laruelle, Annick ORCID; Valenciano Llovera, Federico ORCID (2010-01)
      In this paper we provide a general model of "quaternary" dichotomous voting rules (QVRs), namely, voting rules for making collective dichotomous decisions (to accept or reject a proposal), based on vote profiles in which ...
    • Thumbnail

      Monotonic core solutions: Beyond Young's theorem 

      Arin Aguirre, Francisco Javier (2010-07)
      We introduce two new monotonicity properties for core concepts: single-valued solution concepts that always select a core allocation whenever the game is balanced (has a nonempty core). We present one result of impossibility ...
    • Thumbnail

      Information, stability and dynamics in networks under institutional constraints 

      Olaizola Ortega, María Norma ORCID; Valenciano Llovera, Federico ORCID (2010-07)
      In this paper we study the effects of institutional constraints on stability, efficiency and network formation. More precisely, an exogenous "societal cover" consisting of a collection of possibly overlapping subsets that ...
    • Thumbnail

      Endogenous Timing in a Mixed Duopoly: Wighted Welfare and Price Competition 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Sedano Hoyuelos, Máximo (2011)
      In this paper we analyse the endogenous order of moves in a mixed duopoly for differentiated goods. Firms choose whether to set prices sequentially or simultaneously. The private firm maximises profits while the public ...
    • Thumbnail

      Relocation and Investment in R&D by Firms 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Garzón San Felipe, María Begoña ORCID (2011)
      The literature on foreign direct investment has analyzed firms’ location decisions when they invest in R&D to reduce production costs. Such firms may set up new plants in other developed countries while maintaining their ...
    • Thumbnail

      An axiomatization of success 

      Albizuri Irigoyen, Miren Iosune; Laruelle, Annick ORCID (2011)
      In this paper we give an axiomatic characterization of three families of measures of success defined by Laruelle and Valenciano (2005) for voting rules.
    • Thumbnail

      Partial cross-ownership and strategic environmental policy 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Campo Corredera, María Luz ORCID (2011)
      This paper analyzes the effect that passive investment in rival firms has on the setting of cooperative and non-cooperative environmental taxes. We consider two firms located in different countries, one of which owns a ...
    • Thumbnail

      Minority Language and the Stability of Bilingual Equilibria 

      Iriberri Etxebeste, Nagore ORCID; Uriarte Ayo, José Ramón ORCID (2011)
      We investigate a society with two official languages: A, shared by all individuals and B, spoken by a bilingual mirority. Thus, it is only B that needs t increase its population share, and therefore, only the language ...
    • Thumbnail

      A new look at Marx's refutation of Ricardo's refutation of the labor theory of value 

      Ormazabal Sánchez, Kepa Mirena ORCID (2011)
      In this paper, I would like to bring back to light the forgotten critique of Marx to the widely accepted view that Ricardo succeeded in refuting the universal validity of the labor theory of value in "Principles", chapter ...
    • Thumbnail

      Preferences, actions and voting rules 

      Artabe Echevarria, Alaitz ORCID; Laruelle, Annick ORCID; Valenciano Llovera, Federico ORCID (2011-01-17)
      In this paper we address several issues related to collective dichotomous decision-making by means of quaternary voting rules, i.e., when voters may choose between four actions: voting yes, voting no, abstaining and not ...
    • Thumbnail

      Discriminating by Tagging: Artificial Distinction, Real Discrimination 

      Iñarra García, María Elena ORCID; Laruelle, Annick ORCID (2011-02-08)
      We introduce a new variation of the hawk-dove game suggested by an experiment that studies the behavior of a group of domestic fowls when a subgroup has been marked. Speci cally we consider a population formed by two types ...
    • Thumbnail

      Network formation under institutional constraints 

      Olaizola Ortega, María Norma ORCID; Valenciano Llovera, Federico ORCID (2011-05)
      We study the effects of institutional constraints on stability, efficiency and network formation. An exogenous "societal cover" consisting of a collection of possibly overlapping subsets covering the set of players specifies ...
    • Thumbnail

      Welfare Effects of Third-Degree Price Discrimination: Ippolito Meets Schmalensee and Varian 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID (2011-10)
      Based on a pioneering work by Ippolito (1980) we construct a simple model wich allows the welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination to be well understood and explained. The decomposition of the change in welfare ...
    • Thumbnail

      Multimarket Competition and Welfare Effects of Price discrimination 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID (2011-11)
      The paper investigates the effects on welfare of price discrimination when a multimarket seller faces competition in one of its two markets. With respect to uniform pricing, price discrimination changes competition in such ...
    • Thumbnail

      The SD-prenucleolus for TU games 

      Arin Aguirre, Francisco Javier; Katsev, Ilya (2011-12)
      We introduce and characterize a new solution concept for TU games. The new soluction is called SD-prenucleolus and is a lexicographic value although is not a weighted prenucleolus. The SD-prenucleolus satisfies several ...
    • Thumbnail

      Replicator Dynamics and Evolutionary Stable Strategies in Heterogeneous Games 

      Rocha, André Barreira da Silva; Laruelle, Annick ORCID; Zuazo Garín, Peio (2011-12)
      We generalise and extend the work of Iñarra and Laruelle (2011) by studying two person symmetric evolutionary games with two strategies, a heterogenous population with two possible types of individuals and incomplete ...
    • Thumbnail

      To appove or not to approve: this is not the only question 

      Rodríguez Alcantud, José Carlos; Laruelle, Annick ORCID (2012)
      This paper deals with electing candidates. In elections voters are frequently offered a small set of actions (voting in favor of one candidate, voting blank, spoiling the ballot, and not showing up). Thus voters can ...
    • Thumbnail

      Two-part tariff licensing mechanisms 

      San Martín Lizarralde, Marta ORCID; Saracho de la Torre, Ana Isabel (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV-EHU, 2012-06)
      Most of the patent licensing agreements that are observed include royalties, in particular per-unit or ad valorem royalties. This paper shows that in a differ entiated duopoly that competes á la Cournot the optimal ...
    • Thumbnail

      Asymmetric flow networks 

      Olaizola Ortega, María Norma ORCID; Valenciano Llovera, Federico ORCID (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV-EHU, 2012-06-22)
      This paper provides a new model of network formation that bridges the gap between the two benchmark models by Bala and Goyal, the one-way flow model, and the two-way flow model, and includes both as particular extreme ...
    • Thumbnail

      Approximate knowledge of rationality and correlated equilibria 

      Fabrizio, Germano; Zuazo Garín, Peio (Departamento de fundamentos del análisis económico I, 2012-07-16)
      We extend Aumann's [3] theorem deriving correlated equilibria as a consequence of common priors and common knowledge of rationality by explicitly allowing for non-rational behavior. We replace the assumption of common ...