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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"war of attrition"”.
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Monetary policy and seigniorage in Brazil: Open access and the role of state banks
A political economy model of competition for seigniorage is developed in this thesis in order to provide a rationale for the inflationary regime that the Brazilian economy went through until the advent of the Real Plan in July 1994. If states in a federation can transfer their debts to the central …
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Essays in microeconomic theory
… exert strong influences on t.he behavior of individuals. In the first chapter, a simple model of open-source software development is presented. It is found that either too little development or redundant development effort can occur. While any redundant research effort grows slowly with …
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At the Crossroads of Civil War
<p>The Battle of Antietam, often overlooked among the defining events of the American Civil War, perfectly encapsulates the complexities of the conflict and the myriad factors that must be considered to fully understand it. These intertwining factors can be found preceding and following Antietam in …
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Essays on strategic fiscal policy in Flemish municipalities
… policy, we investigated the simultaneous role of partisan effects, of fragmentation, of interaction dynamics, of electoral cycles and of fiscal illusion effects on the Flemish local income tax rate and local property tax rate. Even though policymakers’ fiscal policy choices are assumed to bring …
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Strategic management of operational resources under uncertainty
… answers two questions: (1) What are the impacts of market uncertainty and technological uncertainty? (2) What is the best way for a firm to manage demand information and technological knowledge in the face of competition? The first essay (Chapter 2) investigates a problem of competitive …
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Strategic decisions under uncertainty: Supplier quality improvement and exit in duopoly
This dissertation consists of three interrelated essays on firm-level decision problems when the exterior environment (e.g. product quality or market prospect) is uncertain and there are strategic interactions with other firms (e.g. competitors). The first essay (Chapter 2) studies a buyer’s …