Sökning: "Coalition formation"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade orden Coalition formation.
6. Collective Action Among Shareholder Activists
Sammanfattning : This study addresses the problem of explaining the emergence and viability of coalitions among shareholder activists. The formation of coalitions for purposes of shareholder activism is generally unexpected from a theoretical perspective. LÄS MER
7. Asset ownership in imperfectly competitive markets
Sammanfattning : My dissertation consists of a collection of essays on assets ownership in concentrated markets.The first chapter, Endogenous Mergers in Concentrated Markets, predicts the pattern of mergers in situations where different mergers are feasible. The merger literature almost exclusively considers mergers between exogenously specified firms. LÄS MER
8. Social Hierarchies between Democracy and Autocracy
Sammanfattning : Social hierarchies exist in democracies as well as in authoritarian societies. However, their nature is different. Democratic hierarchies are built bottom-up through election, while autocratic hierarchies are built top-down through coalition formation and domination. LÄS MER
9. Distributed Coordination in Multiantenna Cellular Networks
Sammanfattning : Wireless communications are important in our highly connected world. The amount of data being transferred in cellular networks is steadily growing, and consequently more capacity is needed. This thesis considers the problem of downlink capacity improvement from the perspective of multicell coordination. LÄS MER
10. Political Careers, Government Stability, and Electoral Cycles
Sammanfattning : Essay 1: This essay investigates the impact of voter support on the representation of women in the political profession. The empirical analysis exploits two-stage elections in the United States and Italy to hold the selection of candidates constant. LÄS MER