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We model income redistribution with dynamic distortions as determined by rational voting without commitment among individuals of different types and income realizations. We find that redistribution is too persistent relative to that chosen by a planner with commitment. The difference is larger, the lower is the political influence of young agents, the lower is the altruistic concern...

I give necessary and sufficient conditions for the uniqueness of the equilibrium in a wide class of Rubinstein bargaining models. The requirements encompass a class of non-convex or disconnected payoff sets with discontinuous Pareto frontiers. The equilibrium of the non-cooperative game is unique if the objective function of the corresponding Nash-bargaining game has a unique maximum...

This paper analyzes and compares different ways of assessing how people perceived impending threats of war in the past. Conventional Nordic historiography of World War IInclaims there were few, if any, people in the Nordic countries who perceived a significantlynincreased threat of war between 1938 and early 1940. At the same time, historical methodsnface problems when it comes to...

Die im Elektrizitätsmarkt als Swing-Optionen bekannten Derivate sind hinsichtlich ihres Charakters und ihrer Einsatzgebiete klassischen Call- und Put-Optionen aus der Finanzwelt ähnlich. So geben Swing-Optionen dem Optionshalter das Recht, während der vereinbarten Ausübungsperiode Energie zu einem vertraglich festgelegten Preis zu kaufen (Call) oder zu verkaufen (Put). Analog den...

The purpose of this article is to describe the theoretical and methodological reasons for the inconsistent findings on the value of strategic consensus. This analysis suggests the need for (a) definitions of consensus that align the locus and content of agreement with the study context and theoretical premises; (b) measures of consensus that take account of locus as well as...

Over the last twenty years many countries have enacted and begun using antidumping legislation. These laws seek, amongst other goals, to deter injurious dumping. In this paper I describe some of the consequences for corporate decision-making and for the political economy of reforms if antidumping laws succeed in deterring dumping in the first place. Understanding these potential...

Non-maturing assets and liabilities (NoMALs) are those positions in a bank's balance that have no contractual maturity such as traditional savings deposits. For the calculation of transfer prices and the quantification of interest rate risk, a fix maturity profile must be assigned to a NoMAL position. Usually a replicating portfolio of fixed-income instruments with constant...