Combating Corruption in International Business Transactions
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Transactions', in which signatory countries commit to prosecuting firms that have bribed public officials of any foreign country. We compare the results with the case in which the convention requires signatory countries to commit to prosecuting firms that have...
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The Economics of Organized Crime and Optimal Law Enforcement
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principal extracts some rents from the agents through extortion. Depending on the principal's information set, threats may or may not be credible. As long as threats are credible, the principal is able to fully extract rents. In that case, the results...
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Heterogeneity as a Coordination Device
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. Buyer heterogeneity and Nash equilibrium results in perfect sorting. The restriction to complementary inputs, that the match value function Q is supermodular, in addition coordinates the sellers strategies. In that case, equilibrium implements positive...
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Inventory-Routing Model, for a Multi-Period Problem with Stochastic and Deterministic Demand
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versus inventory managing costs. In this work, we study the specific case of an inventory-routing problem for a week planning period with different types of demand. A heuristic methodology, based on the Iterated Local Search, is proposed to solve the...
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Multi-Period Vendor Managed Inventory Systems
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different characteristics. The objective of our model is to minimize total inventory cost for the distributor in a multi-period multi-retailer setting. The inventory system includes holding and stock-out costs and we study the case whre an additional fixed...
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Olson vs. Coase: Coalitional Worth in Conflict
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sequential: First the alliance fights it out with the rest and in case they win later they fight it out among themselves. For three-player games, we find that it will not be in the interest of any two of them to form an alliance. We obtain this result...
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Improved Nonparametric Confidence Intervals in Time Series Regressions
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the dependence in the data is noticeable and sample sizes are small to moderate, as is often the case in empirical studies. This paper suggests using the studentized block bootstrap and discusses practical issues, such as the choice of the block size...
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On p-Beauty Contest Integer Games
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choices to integer numbers. Opposed to the case of real number choices, equilibrium uniqueness may be lost depending on the value of p and the number of players: in particular, as p approaches 1 any symmetric profile constitutes a Nash Equilibrium. We also...
Advertising Bans
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a large expansion of market demand at given prices and when it increases product differentiation (thus allowing firms to command higher prices). In this case, the main impact of a ban on advertising is to reduce equilibrium prices and thus increase demand...
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Analysis of Matched Matrices
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matrix algebra shows that by setting up the matrices in a particular block format, matrix sum and difference components can be visualized. The case when we have more than two matrices is also discussed and the methodology is applied to data from the...
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Stable Sunspot Equilibria in a Cash-in-Advance Economy
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indeterminate. Only in the latter case do there exist sunspot equilibria that are stable under adaptive learning. A sufficient reduction in government purchases can in many cases eliminate the sunspot equilibria while raising consumption/labor taxes even enough...
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A Recoverable Production Planning Model
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especially true when the dependence in the data is noticeable and sample sizes are small to moderate, as is often the case in empirical studies. This paper suggests using the studentized block bootstrap and discusses practical issues, such as the choice of...
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Cómo de introducción al shell scripting
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. -USANDO IF FI: -EJEMPLO BASICO. -EJEMPLO UTIL. -TEST. -OPCIONES BASICAS. -USO -USO DE VARIABLES -USANDO CASE. -USANDO SELECT. -EJEMPLO UTIL -BUCLES: -FOR. -WHILE. -BREAK -UNTIL. -OTROS BUCLES -FUNCIONES -EJEMPLO PRACTICO -USO DE CARACTERES ESPECIALES...
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Trade Liberalization in Uruguay: Domestic and Foreign Firms
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Walter Garcia Fontes; Ruben Tansini; Marcel Vaillant; Resumen : The reallocation of resources is one of the main impacts of trade liberalization processes. In the case of...
Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate Volatility in a Small Open Economy
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rules, and an exchange rate peg. We show that a key difference among these regimes lies in the relative amount of exchange rate volatility that they entail. We also discuss a special case for which domestic inflation targeting constitutes the optimal...
Fusion of Data Sets in Multivariate Linear Regression with Errors-in-Variables
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errors--in--variables, in the case where various data sets are merged into a single analysis and the observable variables deviate possibly from normality. The various samples to be merged can differ on the set of observable variables available. We show...
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On Prediction of Individual Sequences
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problem and empirical process theory. First, in the special case of static (memoryless) experts, we completely characterize the minimax relative loss in terms of the maximum of an associated Rademacher process. Then we show general upper and lower bounds...
