Centre De Referència En Economia Analítica Barcelona Economics Working Paper Series Working Paper Nº 149 What Do the Papers Sell? What Do the Papers Sell? *

Centre De Referència En Economia Analítica Barcelona Economics Working Paper Series Working Paper Nº 62 24 Barcelona Economics Wp Nº 62

Bertrand competition under decreasing returns involves a wide interval of pure strategy equilibrium prices. We first present results of experiments in which two, three and four identical firms repeatedly interact in this environment. Less collusion with more firms leads to lower average prices. With more than two firms, the predominant market price is 24, a price not predicted by conventional e...

Centre De Referència En Economia Analítica Barcelona Economics Working Paper Series Working Paper Nº 263 Employment by Lotto Revisited

We study employment by lotto (Aldershof et al., 1999), a procedurally fair matching algorithm for the so-called stable marriage problem. We complement Aldershof et al.’s (1999) analysis in two ways. First, we give an alternative and intuitive description of employment by lotto in terms of a probabilistic serial dictatorship on the set of stable matchings. Second, we show that Aldershof et al.’s...

Centre De Referència En Economia Analítica Barcelona Economics Working Paper Series Working Paper Nº 281 (when) Would I Lie to You? Comment on " Deception: the Role of Consequences " Sjaak Hurkens and Navin Kartik Barcelona Economics Wp Nº 281

This paper reconsiders the evidence on lying or deception presented in Gneezy (2005, American Economic Review). We argue that Gneezy’s data cannot reject the hypothesis that people are one of two kinds: either a person will never lie, or a person will lie whenever she prefers the outcome obtained by lying over the outcome obtained by telling the truth. This implies that so long as lying induces...

Centre De Referència En Economia Analítica Barcelona Economics Working Paper Series Working Paper Nº 34 Electoral Platforms, Implemented Policies, and Abstention Electoral Platforms, Implemented Policies, and Abstention Barcelona Economics Wp N

Recent studies of American politics evidence that political polarization of both the electorate and the political elite have moved “almost in tandem for the past half century” (McCarty et al., 2003, p.2), and that party polarization has steadily increased since the 1970s. On the other hand, the empirical literature on party platforms and implemented policies has consistently found an imperfect ...

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