Saturday, 18 June 2016

Notes on Essays on repeated games (Shivani Nayyar)

Essays on Repeated Games
Shivani Nayyar
http://www.princeton.edu/~smorris/pdfs/PhD/Nayyar.pdf

cooperation, interaction between self-interested agents
 (not finished)

Saturday, 11 June 2016

Notes on "Superfreakonomic" (by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner)

Superfreakonomic: Global Cooling, patriotic prostitutes and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Cost and benefit analysis made by all parties in all sorts of cases
Short sighted thinking
Opportunity cost

(not finished)

Sunday, 5 June 2016

Notes on "CMA Retail banking MIR Issues statement"

adverse effect of competition: AEC
competition and market authority: CMA

The theory of harm (hypothesie to be tested)
market power to banks
customers harder to switch between banks
barriers to entry worsen the outcomes for customers