This article presents an electoral model where activist groups contribute resources to their favored parties. These resources are then used by the party candidates to enhance the electoral perception of their quality or valence. We construct an empirical model of the United States presidential election of 2008 and employ the electoral perception of the character traits of the two candidates. We...

The aim of both marketing theorists and resource-based view proponents is to explain the creation and the sustainability of competitive advantages.1 What has not been considered so far is the role of exploitation positions within the competitive game. The purpose of this article is to investigate the consequences of a strategy concerning the active creation of exploitation positions on the side...

2 The Burgundy Reports are synthesis documents written by CIRANO researchers on issues of general interest. Their aim is to encourage discussion and public debate on current issues. CIRANO is a multidisciplinary interuniversity centre of research. Its mission is to accelerate the transfer of knowledge between researchers and organizations. The observations and viewpoints expressed in this publi...

The article presents an overview of the plenary conference international scientific «Russia in remaking: Civilization, Technogenesis, Economy» organized by laboratory philosophy economic together with council «Center Social Sciences MSU» held on December 9–11, 2020 online format at Faculty Economics Lomonosov Moscow State University. Reports that consider from various positions state and prospe...

This paper studies market clearing in matching markets. The model is non-cooperative, fully decentralized, and in Markov strategies. Workers and firms bargain with each other to determine who will be matched to whom and at what terms of trade. Once a worker-firm pair reach agreement they exit the market. Alternative possible matches affect agents’ bargaining positions. We ask when do such marke...