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      An Approach to the stability of international environmental agreements: the absorbing sets solution 

      Olaizola Ortega, María Norma ORCID (2003-12)
      We study international environmental negotiations when agreements between countries can not be binding. A problem with this kind of negotiations is that countries have incentives for free-riding from such agreements. We ...
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      An axiomatization of success 

      Albizuri Irigoyen, Miren Iosune; Laruelle, Annick ORCID (2011)
      In this paper we give an axiomatic characterization of three families of measures of success defined by Laruelle and Valenciano (2005) for voting rules.
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      Approximate knowledge of rationality and correlated equilibria 

      Fabrizio, Germano; Zuazo Garín, Peio (Departamento de fundamentos del análisis económico I, 2012-07-16)
      We extend Aumann's [3] theorem deriving correlated equilibria as a consequence of common priors and common knowledge of rationality by explicitly allowing for non-rational behavior. We replace the assumption of common ...
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      Are Labor and Freedom Compatible? Political Economy, Hegel’s Practical Philosophy and the Young Marx 

      Ormazabal Sánchez, Kepa Mirena ORCID (Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2017)
      The question discussed in this paper is whether a political society not emancipated from labor can be a free society. In a less abstract way, the question can be posed as follows; can a society with a laboring class and a ...
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      Asymmetric flow networks 

      Olaizola Ortega, María Norma ORCID; Valenciano Llovera, Federico ORCID (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV-EHU, 2012-06-22)
      This paper provides a new model of network formation that bridges the gap between the two benchmark models by Bala and Goyal, the one-way flow model, and the two-way flow model, and includes both as particular extreme ...
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      Choice of Flexible Production Technologies Under Strategic Delegation 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Olaizola Ortega, María Norma ORCID (2004-09)
      This work analyzes a managerial delegation model in which firms can choose between a flexible production technology which allows them to produce two different products and a dedicated production technology which limits ...
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      Choice of Product Variety for the Durable Goods Monopolist 

      Casado Izaga, Francisco Javier ORCID; Saracho de la Torre, Ana Isabel (1999-01)
      This paper analyzes the strategic choice of variety by a monopolist seller of a durable good as a means to mitigate his commitment problem. The monopolist chooses his product variety with a goal of ensuring that a strong ...
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      Coalitional games with veto players: Myopic and farsighted behavior 

      Arin Aguirre, Francisco Javier; Feltkamp, Vicent; Montero García, María (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, 2013-10-10)
      This paper studies an allocation procedure for coalitional games with veto players. The procedure is similar to the one presented by Dagan et al. (1997) for bankruptcy problems. According to it, a player, the proposer, ...
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      Consumption and portfolio rules whit stochastic hyperbolic discounting 

      Palacios Huerta, Ignacio; Pérez Kakabadse, Alonso (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, 2013-09)
      We extend the classic Merton (1969, 1971) problem that investigates the joint consumption-savings and portfolio-selection problem under capital risk by assuming sophisticated but time-inconsistent agents. We introduce ...
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      Consumption-Leisure Trade-offs and Persistency in Business Cycles 

      Barañano Mentxaka, Ilaski ORCID; Moral Zuazo, María Paz ORCID (2007)
      This paper studies whether nonseparabilities between consumption and leisure may help to explain the observed persistence in GNP growth. We consider an extended version of Lucas' (1988) human capital investment model that ...
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      Cost effectiveness of a combination of instruments for global warming: a quantitative approach for Spain 

      Gallastegui Zulaika, María Carmen; González-Eguino, Mikel; Galarraga, I. (Springer, 2012-03)
      Climate change is an important environmental problem and one whose economic implications are many and varied. This paper starts with the presumption that mitigation of greenhouse gases is a necessary policy that has to be ...
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      Cost-Saving production technologies and strategic delegation 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Olaizola Ortega, María Norma ORCID (2004-02)
      This work analyzes a managerial delegation model in which firms that produce a differentiated good can choose between two production technologies: a low marginal cost technology and a high marginal cost technology. For ...
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      Countervailing incentives in adverse selection models. A synthesis 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID; Beitia Ruiz de Mendarozqueta, María Aranzazu ORCID (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2014-12)
      In this paper we propose a simple method of characterizing countervailing incentives in adverse selection problems. The key element in our characterization consists of analyzing properties of the full information problem. ...
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      DANTE: Un MEGA dinámico para el control del cambio climático en España 

      González Ruiz de Eguino, Miguel (2006)
      El estudio de los impactos económicos de las políticas de control del cambio climático requiere del uso de modelos adecuados. Este artículo presenta un Modelo Dinámico de Equilibrio General Aplicado tipo Ramsey. El modelo ...
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      Development and application of environmental integrated assessment modelling towards sustainability 

      Capellán Pérez, Iñigo (2016-06-03)
      Los Modelos Ambientales de Evaluación Integrada (MEIs) constituyen una potente herramienta que integra diferentes disciplinas y dimensiones para informar en la toma de decisiones hacia la sostenibilidad. En esta tesis ...
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      Discriminating by Tagging: Artificial Distinction, Real Discrimination 

      Iñarra García, María Elena ORCID; Laruelle, Annick ORCID (2011-02-08)
      We introduce a new variation of the hawk-dove game suggested by an experiment that studies the behavior of a group of domestic fowls when a subgroup has been marked. Speci cally we consider a population formed by two types ...
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      Distributional analysis of climate change mitigation policies 

      García González, Joaquín (2017-01-27)
      En los últimos años ha habido un creciente interés sobre la desigualdad así como sobre los análisis distributivos de las distintas políticas. La desigualdad también se ha convertido en uno de los principales temas de debate ...
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      Do Mayoritarian Electoral Rules Favour Larger Industries in the Economy 

      Yeung, Timothy Yu-Cheong; Zuazu Bermejo, Izaskun (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2016)
      Electoral rules translate votes into seats on different basis. Politicians respond differently to alternative electoral rules, and consequently, economic performance is expected to vary across rules. This paper empirically ...
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      Dornbusch and Fischer on Capital and Income 

      Ormazabal Sánchez, Kepa Mirena ORCID (2002-05)
      In this paper I critically analyze the relationship that professors Dornbusch and Fischer establish among the concepts of GNP, NNP and aggregate income. In principle, aggregate income is NNP; indeed, the whole point of ...