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Solving The Beautiful Mind Coordination Problem, Ted C. Bergstrom
Solving The Beautiful Mind Coordination Problem, Ted C. Bergstrom
Ted C Bergstrom
There are n boys and m girls. The boys are all expected utility maximizers and agree about the desirability of the prospect of dating each girl. Boys assign utility v_i to a date with girl i, where v_1>v_2>\dots v_n>0 and a utility of 0to having no date. Girls don't care which boy they go out with and they prefer having a date to not having a date. We find the Nash equilibrium strategy for boys.
Teaching Economics Interactively: A Cannibal's Dinner Party, Ted Bergstrom
Teaching Economics Interactively: A Cannibal's Dinner Party, Ted Bergstrom
Ted C Bergstrom
This paper describes techniques that I use to teach economics principles "interactively". These techniques include classroom experiments and classroom clickers. The paper describes an experiment on market entry and gives examples of applications of classroom clickers. Clicker applications include the collection data about student preferences that can be used to construct demand curves and supply curves. Check on students' knowledge of central concepts. Play interactive games that illustrate economic concepts.
How Often Do Economists Self-Archive?, Ted Bergstrom, Rosemarie Lavaty
How Often Do Economists Self-Archive?, Ted Bergstrom, Rosemarie Lavaty
Ted C Bergstrom
To answer the question of the paper's title, we looked at the tables of contents from two recent issues of 33 economics journals and attempted to find a freely available online version of each article. We found that about 90 percent of articles in the most-cited economics journals and about 50 percent of articles in less-cited journals are available. We conduct a similar exercise for political science and find that only about 30 percent of the articles are freely available. The paper reports a regression analysis of the effects of author and article characteristics on likelihood of posing and it …
The Economics Of Ecology Journals, Ted C. Bergstrom, Carl T. Bergstrom
The Economics Of Ecology Journals, Ted C. Bergstrom, Carl T. Bergstrom
Ted C Bergstrom
Large commercial publishers charge dramatically higher prices to institutions than do non-profit publishers. These price differences do not reflect quality as measured by citation rate or pages. We discuss effect of prices and citations on number of library subscriptions and offer an explanation for why competition has not been able to erode the price difference between commercial and non profit journals.