This study examines the effect of labour market regulations on Greek tourism industry performance. The industry, steam engine economy, always drives to enhance efforts reach further savings in operating costs. However, that influence sector’s ability adjust costs have not been thoroughly investigated. We present a novel methodology permits evaluation technical and allocative efficiency one step...

We show that rational but inattentive agents can become polarized, even in expectation. This is driven by agents’ choice of not only how much information to acquire, also what type information. present optimal acquisition, and subsequent belief formation, depends crucially on the agent-specific status quo valuation. Beliefs systematically update away from realized truth with same initial belief...

This introduction offers a context for the articles in this thematic series by providing an overview of the programs that provide cash and in-kind supports to people with disabilities in the United States, summarizes the increasing reliance on these programs, and describes the challenges associated with reducing dependency on these programs. It then briefly discusses the articles in this themat...

The traditional question of optimally deciding when to cut down a tree is among the most commonly posed questions asked of students learning the technique of dynamic programming. This paper shows that the traditional tree-cutting example is improperly formulated when the question of replanting is addressed, derives the proper method of finding optimal harvest length, and applies this method to ...

This paper analyzes the question whether traders learn to coordinate on a trading institution that guarantees market clearing, or whether other market institutions can survive in the long run. While we find that the market clearing institution is indeed always stable under a general class of learning dynamics, it turns out that also other, non-market clearing institutions are stable. Hence, in ...

A dynamic model of financial markets with learning and strategy adoption is demonstrated to produce episodes of market failure. Traders engage in learning to improve their understanding of the relationship between observed prices and future payoffs. Traders also choose between strategies based on fundamental research or on extracting information from market data. The two evolutionary processes ...

A dynamic model with learning and adaptation captures the evolution in trader beliefs and trading strategies. Through a process of learning and observation, traders improve their understanding of the market. Traders also engage in a process of adaptation by switching between trading strategies based on past performance. The asymptotic properties are derived analytically, demonstrating that conv...

We consider a duopoly industry with two separate firms each selling an indivisible product. The joint consumption of these goods has a specific value for the consumers which exceeds the mere addition of utilities when products are consumed in isolation: the higher this excess, the larger the complementarity between the goods. We analyse price equilibria in this market as related to the degree o...

Consider a second-price auction with costly bidding in which bidders with i.i.d. private values have multiple opportunities to bid. If bids are publicly observable, the resulting dynamic-bidding game generates greater expected total welfare than when bids are sealed or, if the seller commits to an optimal reserve, greater expected revenue. If the seller cannot commit to a bid-revelation policy,...