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Toward a Theory of Coordinating : Creating Coordinating

Coordinating Creditors

The market for developing country sovereign debt has become increasingly competitive. Is this necessarily good for welfare? Or, is there scope for beneficial government intervention to reduce competition, and promote coordination, among creditors? This paper reviews recent theoretical work on the market for developing country sovereign debt that shows that competition can reduce welfare. Furthe...

Practically Coordinating

know something about themselves, about each other, about how others view themselves and others, about how others think others view themselves and others, and so on. Taken to an extreme, the amount of knowledge an agent might possess to coordinate its interactions with others might outstrip the agent’s limited reasoning capacity (its available time, memory, and so on). Much of the work in studyi...

Coordinating Editors

We are honored to pay tribute to Johannes (Hans) J. Duistermaat (December 20, 1942–March 19, 2010), a world leading figure in geometric analysis and one of the foremost Dutch mathematicians of the twentieth century, by presenting a collection of contributions by someofHans’s colleagues, collaborators, and students. Duistermaat’s first striking contribution was his article “Fourier integral oper...

Toward a Theory of Coordinating: Creating Coordinating Mechanisms in Practice