Refinery Exchange Agreements: Pro-Competitive, Anti Competitive or Benign?

Estimation of Competitive Balance in Iran’s Football Pro League

Nowadays the subject of competitive balance in sport events is getting huge attention in world economic science. CB in sport means what team will win in a competition. In this research the status of CB in Iran’s football pro league is studied. It’s obvious that if Football league in terms of economic is supposed to be dynamic and alive in economic area, they must follow a suitable of CB. Data g...

Are Slotting Allowances Efficiency-Enhancing or Anti-Competitive?

Slotting allowances are lump-sum payments by manufacturers to retailers for stocking new products. The economic rationale for slotting allowances is controversial. Several theoretical arguments have been provided for the use of slotting allowances. Some are based on efficiency considerations: (1) efficient allocation of scarce retail shelf space; (2) equitable allocation of new product failure ...

Pro-competitive rationing in multi-unit auctions

In multi-unit auctions, such as auctions of commodities and securities, and financial exchanges, it is necessary to specify rationing rules to break ties between multiple marginal bids. The standard approach in the literature and in pratice is to ration marginal bids proportionally. This paper shows how bidding can be made more competitive if the rationing rule instead gives increasing priority...

User Pro les Using Relational Competitive Fuzzy

Competitive Voters vs. Collaborative Bidders: Agreements in Dynamic Task Assignment

This paper is concerned with the problem of dynamic taskassignment among multiple mobile agents. We study and experimentally compare two approaches for achieving an agreement on how the tasks are to be assigned: negotiation through auctions and aggregation of preferences through voting. For the second approach, we formalize the task assignment problem as a voting problem and present the corresp...