Many collusive agreements involve the exchange of self-reported sales data between competitors, which use them to monitor compliance with a target market share allocation. Such communication may facilitate collusion even if it is unverifiable cheap talk and underlying information becomes publicly available delay. The allow firms implement incentive-compatible reallocation mechanisms after unexp...

Este trabalho tem como objetivo avaliar as mudanças na estrutura produtiva chinesa impactaram os preços de bens industriais exportados pelo país entre 2001 e 2017. Para isto, considera-se o preço sendo uma variável explicativa da qualidade das exportações. Metodologicamente propõe-se calcular margens intensiva acordo com Hummels Klenow (2005) para grupos setoriais categorizados por tipos tecnol...

How do individuals achieve \good outcomes" in one{shot strategic situations? One possibility is that they engage in some kind of preplay communication|cheap talk|in which they endeavor to convince one another of the actions they intend to play. Another, less explored, possibility is that individuals take account of their knowledge of the past behavior of others when deciding which actions to pl...

A new method of enforcing mutual exclusion among concurrent processes on uniprocessors running UNIX is presented in this paper. When a process attempts to obtain a lock, no race condition will occur unless the process is preempted. The central idea is that a process can avoid a race condition if preemption is made visible to the process when it is rescheduled. Two possible implementations of th...

As I read authoritative reports by well-known petroleum geologists on the Internet about the end of Cheap Oil, I became more and more engrossed about this greatest story never told. (In fact, the story has been told, but it has never reached the press headlines.) I wanted to know how it all turns out. It is surprising how much high quality, authoritative information can be obtained from a caref...