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      Games with perceptions 

      Iñarra García, María Elena ORCID; Laruelle, Annick ORCID; Zuazo Garín, Peio (Deparamento de fundamentos del análisis económico I, 2012-10-23)
      We assume that 2 x 2 matrix games are publicly known and that players perceive a dichotomous characteristic on their opponents which defines two types for each player. In turn, each type has beliefs concerning her opponent's ...
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      Geographical mobility and the labour market 

      Vives Coscojuela, Cecilia (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I. UPV-EHU, 2015-05)
      This paper studies the e ect of home-owners' migration costs on migration and unemployment in an economy where workers move both for work- and nonwork- related reasons. To this end, a search model with heterogeneous locations ...
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      Ghost seats in the Basque Parliament 

      Ibarzabal Laka, Nora; Laruelle, Annick ORCID (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2015-04-24)
      In elections voters have generally four options: to abstain, to cast a blank vote, to cast a null vote, or to vote for a candidate or party. This last option is a positive expression of support, while the other three options ...
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      How central are clients in sexual networks created by commercial sex? 

      Hsieh, Chih-Sheng; Kovarik, Jaromir ORCID; Logan, Trevon (Nature Publishing Group, 2014-12-18)
      Sex workers are traditionally considered important vectors of transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STI). The role of clients is commonly overlooked, partially due to the lack of evidence on clients' position ...
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      Human Capital and Market Size 

      Vives Coscojuela, Cecilia (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU I, 2016-07)
      This paper studies how the size of the labour market aff ects workers' decision to invest in human capital. We consider a model of mismatch where firms rank workers according to their level of skills. The matching process ...
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      Implementing with veto players: a simple non cooperative game 

      Arin Aguirre, Francisco Javier; Feltkamp, Vincent (2005-06)
      The paper adapts a non cooperative game presented by Dagan, Serrano and Volij (1997) for bankruptcy problems to the context of TU veto balanced games. We investigate the relationship between the Nash outcomes of a ...
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      Income risk of EU coal-fired power plants after Kyoto 

      Abadie, Luis María; Chamorro Gómez, José Manuel ORCID (2008-10)
      Coal-fired power plants may enjoy a significant advantage relative to gas plants in terms of cheaper fuel cost. Still, this advantage may erode or even turn into disadvantage depending on CO2 emission allowance price. This ...
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      Incorporating ecosystem services into national accounting: theory and practice 

      Ruiz de Gauna Ruiz de Loizaga, Itziar (2017-05-24)
      La tesis tiene como objetivo incorporar los servicios del ecosistema de no mercado a la contabilidad nacional de forma consistente con los bienes y servicios de mercado. Esto requiere estimar precios y cantidades de mercado. ...
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      Information, stability and dynamics in networks under institutional constraints 

      Olaizola Ortega, María Norma ORCID; Valenciano Llovera, Federico ORCID (2010-07)
      In this paper we study the effects of institutional constraints on stability, efficiency and network formation. More precisely, an exogenous "societal cover" consisting of a collection of possibly overlapping subsets that ...
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      Integrated policy assessment and optimisation over multiple sustainable development goals in Eastern Africa 

      Van de Ven, Dirk-Jan Petrus Adrianus; Sampedro Martínez de Estívariz, Jon; Johnson, Francis Xavier; Bailis, Rob; Forouli, Aikaterini; Nikas, Alexandros; Yu, Sha; Pardo, Guillermo; García de Jalón, Silvestre; Wise, Marshall; Doukas, Haris (IOP, 2019-08-20)
      Heavy reliance on traditional biomass for household energy in eastern Africa has significant negative health and environmental impacts. The African context for energy access is rather different from historical experiences ...
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      Internal Organization of Firms and Cartel Formation 

      Kuipers, Jerome; Olaizola Ortega, María Norma ORCID (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 ...
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      International and Intergenerational Dimensions of Climate Change: North-South Cooperation in an Overlapping Generations Framework 

      Ansuategui Cobo, José Alberto ORCID; Escapa García, Marta ORCID; Pérez, Azucena (2003-12)
      Global environmental problems such as climate change have both an international and an intertemporal dimension. Recently, some papers have used an overlapping generations framework to analyze the climate change problem ...
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      International Trade and Strategic Privatization 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Garzón San Felipe, María Begoña ORCID (2001-03)
      The literature on mixed oligopoly does not consider that there is strategic interaction between governments when they decide whether to privatize their public firms. In order to analyze this quetion we consider two countries; ...
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      Joan Robinson Was Almost Right: Output under Third-Degree Price Discrimination 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID (2009-12)
      In this paper, we show that in order for third-degree price discrimination to increase total output, the demands of the strong markets should be, as conjectured by Robinson (1933), more concave than the demands of the weak ...
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      Learning in Network Games 

      Kovarik, Jaromir ORCID; Mengel, Friederike; Romero, José Gabriel (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 ...
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      Long Term Dynamics in CO2 Allowance Prices and Carbon Capture Investments 

      Abadie, Luis María; Chamorro Gómez, José Manuel ORCID (2007-05)
      In this paper we analyse the behaviour of the EU market for CO2 emission allowances; specifically, we focus on the contracts maturing in the Kyoto Protocol's second period of application (2008 to 2012). We calibrate the ...
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      Long-Term Growth and Persistence with Endogenous Depreciation: Theory and Evidence 

      Barañano Mentxaka, Ilaski ORCID; Romero-Avila, Diego (Departamento de Fundamentos dle Análisis Económico I, 2013)
      Previous research has shown a strong positive correlation between short-term persistence and long-term output growth as well as between depreciation rates and long-term output growth. This evidence, therefore, contradicts ...
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      Lowndes and Locke on the value of money 

      Ormazabal Sánchez, Kepa Mirena ORCID (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 ...
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      Majoritarian Contests with Asymmetric Battlefields: An Experiment 

      Montero García, María; Possajennikow, Alex; Sefton, Martín; Turocy, Theodore L. (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2013-12)
      We investigate a version of the classic Colonel Blotto game in which individual battles may have different values. Two players allocate a fixed budget across battlefields and each battlefield is won by the player who ...
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      Majorities with a quorum 

      Laruelle, Annick ORCID; Valenciano Llovera, Federico ORCID (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 ...