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To Buy or Not to Buy: Consumer Constraints in the Housing Market

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We use a strategic household survey to study the sensitivity of intended homeownership decisions to financing constraints. We find that the average stated likelihood of buying a home is strongly sensitive to the size of the required down payment, which we ...

2016

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Water shortage and soil qualitative degradation are significant environmental problems in arid and semi-arid regions of the world. The increasing demand for water in agriculture and industry has resulted in the emergence of wastewater use as an alternative ...

Springer2016

Buy-It-Now or Take-a-Chance: Price Discrimination Through Randomized Auctions

Laura Elisa Celis

Increasingly detailed consumer information makes sophisticated price discrimination possible. At fine levels of aggregation, demand may not obey standard regularity conditions. We propose a new randomized sales mechanism for such environments. Bidders can ...

Informs2014

A stochastic dynamic game of the 2050 European Energy Roadmap with CCS

Marc Vielle, Frédéric Louis François Babonneau, Alain Haurie

Overview Climate policy is one of the corner stones of European Union (EU) policy. In 2011, the European Commission has defined a roadmap to low carbon economy in 2050 in which the Commission reconfirmed the EU objective of reducing European greenhouse gas ...

2014

Frequency capping in online advertising

Moran Feldman

We study the following online problem. There are n advertisers. Each advertiser has a total demand and a value for each supply unit. Supply units arrive one by one in an online fashion, and must be allocated to an agent immediately. Each unit is associated ...

Springer2014

A Robust Meta-Game for Climate Negotiations

Marc Vielle, Frédéric Louis François Babonneau, Alain Haurie

This paper deals with an application of the robust equilibrium concept in game theory to the assessment of the possible international agreement on climate that could be achieved in the conference of the parties negotiations organized by the UNFCCC. It is s ...

Springer Verlag2013

Impact of biofuels production on land-use change and greenhouse gas emissions

Luis Alberto Panichelli

This research assesses the effect of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission constraints imposed in biofuel importing countries on the export potential of biofuel producing countries. Several countries are promoting the introduction of biofuels on their energy matri ...

EPFL2012

The effect of access charges on social welfare in the railway industry

Matthias Finger, Marc Laperrouza

This paper presents a game-theoretic model of a liberalized railway industry in which train operation and ownership of infrastructure is fully vertically separated. The objective of this paper is to analyze how the regulatory agency will socially optimal s ...

2010

A Model of Search Intermediaries and Paid Referrals

Thomas Alois Weber

In this paper we pursue three main objectives: (1) to develop a model of an intermediated search market in which matching between consumers and firms takes place primarily via paid referrals; (2) to address the question of designing a suitable mechanism fo ...

2007

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