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      Marx´ Critique of the Currency Principle 

      Ormazabal Sánchez, Kepa Mirena ORCID (2009)
      The goal of this paper is to rescue the critique of Marx of the Currency Principle from its current oblivion. The ideas of Marx are extraordinarily interesting both from a theoretical and from a practical standpoint, as ...
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      Mas-Colell, Whinston and Green Versus Scitovsky on Profit and Utility Maximization 

      Ormazabal Sánchez, Kepa Mirena ORCID (2005)
      I contrast the theoretical foundation of profit maximization of Mas-Colell, Whinston and Green’s “Microeconomics” against that provided by Scitovsky in a paper of 1943. Whereas Mas-Colell, Whinston and Green try to show ...
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      Mergers in Durable Goods Industries 

      Sagasta Elorza, Amagoia ORCID; Saracho de la Torre, Ana Isabel (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2004)
      This paper is concerned with the study of durability as an aspect of competition and market structure that contributes to determining the incentives for mergers. We find that relative to the incentives in industries that ...
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      Minority Language and the Stability of Bilingual Equilibria 

      Iriberri Etxebeste, Nagore ORCID; Uriarte Ayo, José Ramón ORCID (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 ...
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      Mixed Duopoly, Merger and Multiproduct Firms 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Garzón San Felipe, María Begoña ORCID (2000-07)
      The literature on mergers has extensively analyzed the decision to merge by private firms but it has not considered the decision to merge by private and public firms. We assume that when a private firm and a public firm ...
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      Mixed Oligopoly and Environmental Policy 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Garzón San Felipe, María Begoña ORCID (2001-02)
      The literature on mixed oligopoly does not consider the role that the environmental policy of the government plays on the decision whether to privatize public firms. Assuming that there are one public firm and n private ...
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      Monopoly Price Discrimination and Demand Curvature 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID; Cowan, Simon; Vickers, John (2009-08)
      This paper presents a general analysis of the effects of monopolistic third-degree price discrimination on welfare and oputput when all markets are served. Sufficient conditions -involving straightforward comparisons of ...
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      Monopoly price discrimination with constant elasticity demand 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID; Cowan, Simon George (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, 2013-11)
      This paper presents new results on the welfare e¤ects of third-degree price discrimination under constant elasticity demand. We show that when both the share of the strong market under uniform pricing and the elasticity ...
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      Monotonic core solutions: Beyond Young's theorem 

      Arin Aguirre, Francisco Javier (2010-07)
      We introduce two new monotonicity properties for core concepts: single-valued solution concepts that always select a core allocation whenever the game is balanced (has a nonempty core). We present one result of impossibility ...
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      Monte Carlo Valuation of natural gas investments 

      Abadie, Luis María; Chamorro Gómez, José Manuel ORCID (2006-07)
      This paper deals with the valuation of energy assets related to natural gas. In particular, we evaluate a baseload Natural Gas Combined Cycle (NGCC) power plant and an ancillary instalation, namely a Liquefied Natural Gas ...
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      Multimarket Competition and Welfare Effects of Price discrimination 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID (2011-11)
      The paper investigates the effects on welfare of price discrimination when a multimarket seller faces competition in one of its two markets. With respect to uniform pricing, price discrimination changes competition in such ...
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      Natural Disasters and Indicators of Social Cohesion 

      Calo Blanco, Aitor; Kovarik, Jaromir ORCID; Mengel, Friederike; Romero, José Gabriel (Public Library Science, 2017-06-07)
      Do adversarial environmental conditions create social cohesion? We provide new answers to this question by exploiting spatial and temporal variation in exposure to earthquakes across Chile. Using a variety of methods and ...
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      Network formation under institutional constraints 

      Olaizola Ortega, María Norma ORCID; Valenciano Llovera, Federico ORCID (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 ...
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      Oligopoly price discrimination, competitive pressure and total output 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID (Kiel Institute for the World Economy, 2019-12-11)
      This paper extends the traditional analysis of the output effect under monopoly (third-degree) price discrimination to a multimarket oligopoly. The author shows that under oligopoly price discrimination, differences in ...
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      On monotonic core allocations for coalitional games whith veto players 

      Arin Aguirre, Francisco Javier; Feltkamp, Vincent (2007-10)
      We characterize a monotonic core concept defined on the class of veto balanced games. We also discuss what restricted versions of monotonicity are possible when selecting core allocations. We introduce a family of monotonic ...
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      On the economics of the "meeting competition defense" under the Robinson-Patman Act 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2015-02-19)
      In this paper we analyze the welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination when competitive pressure varies across markets. In particular, we study the economic aspects of the Robinson-Patman Act associated with the ...
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      On the strategic choice of spatial price policy: the role of the pricing game rules 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID; Martín Arroyuelos, Ana María ORCID (2001-02)
      In this paper, whe show that the strategic choice of spatial price policy under duopoly crucially depends on the rules of price competition. Thisse and Vives (1988) show that spatial price discrimination is a dominant ...
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      Output dynamics in an endogenous growth model 

      Barañano Mentxaka, Ilaski ORCID; Moral Zuazo, María Paz ORCID (2003-07)
      The aim of this paper is to analyze whether endogenous growth RBC models are consistent with two stylized facts about U.S. output dynamics. First, GNP growth is positively correlated in the short run and it has a weak ...
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      Partial cross-ownership and strategic environmental policy 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Campo Corredera, María Luz ORCID (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 ...
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      Partial Privatization of State Holding Corporations 

      Dong, Quean; Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Garzón San Felipe, María Begoña ORCID (Departamento Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, 2016-06)
      We consider a state holding corporation with two plants that may produce complement or substitute goods and that compete with one or two private firms. We find that the government partially privatizes the two plants of the ...