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...

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...