it has seen in many studies that there is a significant relation between the number of authors in an article and its amount of perceived citations. in other words, the more the number of the authors, the more the possibility of perceiving citations. the present study thus is going to explain a kind of behavior, which is based on citing conformity factor. the research has been done in two parts:...

We imbed a classic fishery model, where the optimal policy follows a Most Rapid Approach Path to a steady state, into an overlapping generations setting. The current generation discounts future generations’ utility flows at a rate possibly different from the pure rate of time preference used to discount their own utility flows. The resulting model has non-constant discount rates, leading to tim...

We show that (i) different collateral requirements across countries in securitized markets lead to net international capital flows, and (ii) the ability to tranche asset-backed securities in one country leads to offsetting portfolio flows, creating gross financial flows. We use a general equilibrium model with two countries, collateralized borrowing, and securitized markets. Financial systems d...

Given a description of a game and a strategy profile, we are interested in the problem of deciding if the strategy profile is an equilibrium of the game. In the present paper we restrict our attention to games of complete but imperfect information. The game is represented by a sequence of Presburger formulas and the equilibrium property is checked by computing conservative approximate least fix...

The paper illustrates an unconventional approach to providing adequate nourishment worldwide. Regions with an insufficient calorie supply receive transfer payments in order to increase their food budgets. The transfer payments are financed by a flat income tax in OECD countries. A general equilibrium model, which contains this transfer payment mechanism as well as information about nutrition, i...

This paper relaxes a single assumption in the standard matching framework, by allowing unemployed workers to be uncertain about their relative ability to find a job. This alternative assumption, which is supported by experimental evidence, implies that unsuccessful search induces individuals to revise their beliefs downwards. Once self-confidence is sufficiently low, workers become discouraged ...

In list-method directed forgetting, participants are cued to intentionally forget a previously studied list (List 1) before encoding a subsequently presented list (List 2). Compared with remember-cued participants, forget-cued participants typically show impaired recall of List 1 and improved recall of List 2, referred to as List 1 forgetting and List 2 enhancement. In 3 experiments, we examine...

Morocco is currently about to start reducing industrial protection in the context of its association agreement with the European Union. However, agriculture, which represents the major income source for the disfavored rural population, is the sector that is most strongly protected. In this study, a general equilibrium model of Morocco is used as a laboratory for analyzing the short-run equilibr...