Title:Natural Resource Distribution and Multiple Forms of Civil War
Author(s):MORELLI, Massimo; ROHNER, DominicDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We examine how natural resource location, rent sharing and fighting capacities of different groups matter for ethnic con.ict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple ...
Title:Negative Feedbacks in the Economy and Industrial Location
Author(s):BRAKMAN, S.; GARRETSEN, H.; GIGENGACK, R.; VANMARREWIJK, C.; WAGENVOORT, Rien J.L.M.Date:1996Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Incorporating regional asymmetry and negative feedbacks (congestion) in a model of economic geography and international trade shows that complete specialization of production at one location is unlikely. We identify an ...
Title:Nested Models and Model Uncertainty
Author(s):KRIWOLUZKY, Alexander; STOLTENBERG, Christian A.Date:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Uncertainty about the appropriate choice among nested models is a central concern for optimal policy when policy prescriptions from those models differ. The standard procedure is to specify a prior over the parameter space ...
Title:Nested Models and Model Uncertainty
Author(s):KRIWOLUZKY, Alexander; STOLTENBERG, Christian A.Date:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Uncertainty about the appropriate choice among nested models is a central concern for optimal policy when policy prescriptions from those models differ. The standard procedure is to specify a prior over the parameter space ...
Title:Network competition for European telecommunications
Author(s):STEHMANN, OliverDate:1993Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The telecommunications industry is in the throes of rapid technological and regulatory change. Markets for terminals and services have been liberalized, and only the provision of networks has remained under the control of ...
Title:Network Competition for European Telecommunications
Author(s):STEHMANN, OliverDate:1995Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The telecommunications industry is in the throes of rapid technological and regulatory change. Markets for terminals and services have been liberalized, and only the provision of networks has remained under the control of ...
Title:Network Formation Under Cumulative Advantage: Evidence From the Cambridge High-Tech Cluster
Author(s):GNUTZMANN, HinnerkDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:When joining a social network, the already well-connected often make for especially attractive partners because they can facilitate links to other network members. However, the effect is potentially weakened by increasing ...
Title:Network Games
Author(s):GALEOTTI, Andrea; GOYAL, Sanjeev; JACKSON, Matthew O.; VEGA-REDONDO, Fernando; YARIV, LeeatDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In contexts ranging from public goods provision to information collection, a player's well-being depends on his or her own action as well as on the actions taken by his or her neighbours. We provide a framework to analyse ...
Title:Network Games
Author(s):GALEOTTI, Andrea; GOYAL, Sanjeev; JACKSON, Matthew O.; VEGA-REDONDO, Fernando; YARIV, LeeatDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:In a variety of contexts - ranging from public goods provision to information collection - a player's well-being depends on own action as well as on the actions taken by his or her neighbors. We provide a framework to ...
Title:Network Organizations
Author(s):VEGA-REDONDO, FernandoDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:It is common to define a network organization as one that is fast and flexible in adapting to changes in the underlying environment. But besides the short-run advantages of adaptability, fast changes in the structure of ...
Title:Network Structure Matters: Applications to R&D collaboration, collusion, and online communication networks
Author(s):KORKMAZ, GizemDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis studies the interplay between network structure and strategic decision making given the backdrop of economic and social networks. The first two chapters study how firms’ incentives to invest in costly R&D are ...
Title:Networks Emerging in a Volatile World
Author(s):EHRHARDT, Gorge; MARSILI, Matteo; VEGA-REDONDO, FernandoDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The paper proposes a model to study the conditions under which complex networks emerge (or not) when agents are involved in a dynamic coordination setup. The focus, however, is not on the classical issue of equilibrium ...