SUMMARY ECONOMIC COMPETITION

HyFlex Competition Instance Summary

This document shows the instances that were used for the CHeSC 2011 competition. These instances are available within the JAR file containing the HyFlex software framework[2] version used for the competition. The first four domains were released before the competition as training domains with 10 instances each. There are now 12 instances in each because we added two hidden instances for the com...

Economic Organization and Competition Policy

Political Competition in Economic Perspective

It is sometimes argued that political competition yields benefits to the citizens just as competition in economic markets yields benefits to consumers. We consider the economic costs and benefits of political competition and find that the story is somewhat more complicated. We first review the limited existing literature on this topic, and in the process, identify a number of distinct interpret...

Economic geography with tariff competition

A simple two-country model of economic geography is constructed in order to examine the effect of tariff competition on the spatial distribution of manufacturing activities as well as on welfare. We show that when the transport cost is sufficiently small, tariff competition with firm migration leads to a core-periphery economy, where one of the two countries imposes no tariff in Nash equilibriu...

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