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Learning in Network Games
(Departamento de Fundamentos dle Análisis Económico I, 2012-11-23)
We report the findings of an experiment designed to study how people learn and make decisions in network games. Network games offer new opportunities to identify learning rules, since
on networks (compared to e.g. random ...
Partial cross-ownership and strategic environmental policy
(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 ...
Zoning a cross-border city
(Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV-EHU, 2015)
This paper investigates zoning in a cross-border linear city that consists of two bordering towns. In each town a local regulator has a say in the location of the local firm. The incentive to gain consumers from the other ...
Two-part tariff licensing mechanisms
(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 ...
Foreign Aid Linked to Infrastructure and/or Pollution Abatement
(Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2014-03)
This paper studies the macroeconomic effects of a permanent increase in foreign aid in a model that takes into account environmental quality. We develop a dynamic equilibrium model in which both public investment in ...
The Economics of "Why is it so hard to save a threatened Language?"
(Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2014-02)
We study the language choice behavior of bilingual speakers in modern societies, such
as the Basque Country, Ireland andWales. These countries have two o cial languages:A, spoken by all, and B, spoken by a minority. We ...
Unilateral vs. Bilateral link-formation: Bridging the gap
(Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2014-05-28)
We provide a model that bridges the gap between two benchmark models of strategic network formation: Jackson and Wolinsky' s model based on bilateral formation of links, and Bala and Goyal's two-way fl ow model, where links ...
Network formation under institutional constraints
(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 ...
Minority Language and the Stability of Bilingual Equilibria
(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 ...
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 ...