Beth Allen

Costly Acquisition of (Differentiated) Information (1989)

Beth Allen

Consumers ' choices among many different types of information sub-a-fields are examined in a large, perfectly competitive pure exchange economy in which information serves as a consumption good...

Capacity precommitment as a barrier to entry: a Bertrand-Edgeworth approach

Beth Allen, Raymond Deneckere, Tom Faith, Dan Kovenock

This paper considers the role of capacity as a strategic entry deterrent for a game in which the incumbent and entrant sequentially precommit to capacity levels before competing in price, possibly...

Incentives in market games with asymmetric information: the core

Beth Allen

This paper examines the ex ante core of a pure exchange economy with asymmetric information in which state-dependent allocations are required to satisfy incentive compatibility. This restriction on...

Ku acts in a unique way at the mammalian telomere to prevent end joining

Hsu, Hsin-Ling, Gilley, David, Galande, Sanjeev A., Hande, M. Prakash, Allen, Beth, Kim, Sahn-Ho, ...

Telomeres are specialized DNA/protein structures that act as protective caps to prevent end fusion events and to distinguish the chromosome ends from double-strand breaks. We report that TRF1 and Ku...

Cooperative theory with incomplete information

Beth Allen

This paper surveys cooperative game theory when players have incomplete or asymmetric information, especially when the TU and NTU games are derived from economic models. First some results relating...

Implementation theory with incomplete information

Beth Allen

This paper surveys implementation theory when players have incomplete or asymmetric information, especially in economic environments. After the basic problem is introduced, the theory of...

Market games with asymmetric information: the core

Beth Allen

Core, Asymmetric information, Exchange economy, Balancedness, D51, D82, C71,

Ku acts in a unique way at the mammalian telomere to prevent end joining

Hsu, Hsin-Ling, Gilley, David, Galande, Sanjeev A., Hande, M. Prakash, Allen, Beth, Kim, Sahn-Ho, ...

Telomeres are specialized DNA/protein structures that act as protective caps to prevent end fusion events and to distinguish the chromosome ends from double-strand breaks. We report that TRF1 and Ku...

On the Definition of Differentiated Products in the Real World.

Beth Allen

This paper proposes an abstract model of commodity differentiation that incorporates manufacturing imprecision and dimensioning and tolerancing standards. The potential consistency of such model...

The Future of Microeconomic Theory

Beth Allen

The question of what constitutes good economic theory is analyzed. Current good and bad aspects of its methodologies are discussed. Interdisciplinary work that goes beyond the social sciences is...

Price Equilibria in Pure Strategies for Homogeneous Oligopoly.

Allen, Beth, Thisse, Jacques-Francois

For a homogeneous product oligopoly market, possibilities for pure strategy Nash equilibria in prices are studied. Consumers, who each nonstrategically purchase one unit up to a common reservation...

Using Trembling-Hand Perfection to Alleviate the Interlinked Principal-Agent Problem.

Allen, Beth

For a simple interlinked principal-agent problem, equilibrium may b e inefficient to the principals. When each agent's discrete effort and a common random variable (observable to agents, but not...

Capacity Precommitment as a Barrier to Entry:A Bertrand-Edgeworth Approach

Beth Allen, Raymond Deneckere, Tom Faith, Dan Kovenock

With few exceptions, the literature on the role of capacity as a strategic entry deterrent has assumed Cournot competition in the post-entry game. In contrast, our model is in the spirit of Kreps and...

Bertrand-Edgeworth Duopoly with Proportional Residual Demand.

Allen, Beth, Hellwig, Martin

A complete characterization is given for the prices charged by Bertrand-Edgeworth duopolists with capacity constraints. In general, for the game in which firms' strategy spaces consist of price...

The existence of rational expectations equilibrium: a retrospective

Beth Allen, James S. Jordan

This paper provides a selective review of theoretical research on the consistency of rational expectations equilibrium and its properties in microeconomic models. The general equilibrium framework is...

Equilibrium selections

Beth Allen, Jayasri Dutta, Haraklis M. Polemarchakis

This paper studies the outcome of fully insured random selections among multiple competitive equilibria. This defines an iterative procedure of reallocation which is Pareto improving at each step....

research articles : Capacity precommitment as a barrier to entry: A Bertrand-Edgeworth approach

Dan Kovenock, Raymond Deneckere, Tom Faith, Beth Allen

With few exceptions, the literature on the role of capacity as a strategic entry deterrent has assumed Cournot competition in the post-entry game. In contrast, this paper studies a model in which the...

On the definition of differentiated products in the real world

Beth Allen

This paper proposes an abstract model of commodity differentiation that incorporates manufacturing imprecision and dimensioning and tolerancing standards. The potential consistency of such a model...