Title:Strategic Bidding in Multi-unit Auctions with Capacity Constrained Bidders: The New York capacity market
Author(s):SCHWENEN, SebastianDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper employs a simple model to describe bidding behavior in multi-unit uniform price procurement auctions when firms are capacity constrained. Using data from the New York City capacity auctions, I find that capacity ...
Title:Strategic Campaigning with Vote and Turnout Buying: Theory and evidence
Author(s):CASAS, AgustinDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this paper, I model the relationship between potential voters and a politician, who can pay citizens to vote for him – vote buying – or to show up to vote – turnout buying. This model is used to explore the optimal ...
Title:A strategic energy technology policy towards 2050 : no-regret strategies for European technology push
Author(s):RUESTER, Sophia; SCHWENEN, Sebastian; FINGER, Matthias; GLACHANT, Jean-MichelDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:As current policy frameworks are expiring in 2020, the EU is revisiting its energy technology policy for the post-2020 horizon. The main long-run objective for energy technology policy is to foster the achievement of ...
Title:Strategic information transmission
Author(s):SCHANZ, Jochen FriedrichDate:2005Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD theses
Title:Strategic Mass Killings
Author(s):ESTEBAN, Joan; MORELLI, Massimo; ROHNER, DominicDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Since World War II there have been about fifty episodes of large-scale mass killings of civilians and massive forced displacements. They were usually meticulously planned and independent of military goals. We provide a ...
Title:Strategic Militarization, Deterrence and Wars
Author(s):JACKSON, Matthew O.; MORELLI, MassimoDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We study countries choosing armament levels and then whether or not to go to war. We show that if the costs of war are not overly high or low, then all equilibria must involve dove, hawk, and deterrent strategies and the ...
Title:Strategic Wage Bargaining, Labor Market Volatility and Persistence
Author(s):HERTWECK, Matthias S.Date:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper modifies the standard Mortensen-Pissarides job matching model in order
to explain the cyclical behavior of vacancies and unemployment. The modifications include
strategic wage bargaining (Hall and Milgrom, ...
Title:Stratégies de survie de l'autoritarisme : gestion de l'élite gouvernante dans l'Irak de Saddam Hussein
Author(s):CHAMS EL DINE, ChérineDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Au début du 21ème siècle l’autoritarisme semble perdurer dans quelques régions du globe, notamment le monde arabe, où il résiste aux vagues de démocratisation successives. Ce travail s’interroge sur les mécanismes de ...
Title:Strategies of Sovietization in Central Asia, 1924-1930: The Uzbek case
Author(s):DE SANTI, ChiaraDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis examines four cases of sovietization (modernization) as realized in Central Asia and especially in Uzbekistan in the 1920s, with particular emphasis on the period between 1924 (the regionalization of Central ...