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Welfare Effects of Third-Degree Price Discrimination: Ippolito Meets Schmalensee and Varian
(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 ...
Social Preferences - Literature Survey
(2009)
This paper surveys the theories of social preferences. Social preferences are based on that people not only care about their own well-being, but they have a certain concern with payoffs and/or actions of others. We classify ...
Marx´ Critique of the Currency Principle
(2009)
The goal of this paper is to rescue the critique of Marx of the Currency Principle from its current oblivion. The ideas of Marx are extraordinarily interesting both from a theoretical and from a practical standpoint, as ...
Majorities with a quorum
(2010-01)
Based on a general model of "quaternary" voting rule, sensitive to voters' choices between four different options (abstaining, voting "yes", voting "no" and staying home), we systematically study different types of majority ...
Lowndes and Locke on the value of money
(2007)
In this paper I analyze the monetary theories underlying the arguments that Locke and Lowndes directed against each other during their discussions around the Great Recoinage of 1696. My primary place of interest is the ...
Valuing Flexibility: The case of an Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Power Plant
(2005-10)
In this paper we analyze the valuation of options stemming from the flexibility in an Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) Power Plant. First we use as a base case the opportunity to invest in a Natural Gas Combined ...
Monte Carlo Valuation of natural gas investments
(2006-07)
This paper deals with the valuation of energy assets related to natural gas. In particular, we evaluate a baseload Natural Gas Combined Cycle (NGCC) power plant and an ancillary instalation, namely a Liquefied Natural Gas ...
The Stability of the Roommate Problem Revisited
(2007-09)
The lack of stability in some matching problems suggests that alternative solution concepts to the core might be applied to find predictable matchings. We propose the absorbing sets as a solution for the class of roommate ...
Internal Organization of Firms and Cartel Formation
(2004-12)
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 ...
The SD-prenucleolus for TU games
(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 ...