Coordination in Games with Strategic Complementarities: An Experiment on Fixed vs. Random Matching

In this article, we study behavior in a series of two‐player supply chain game experiments. Each player simultaneously chooses a capacity before demand is realized, and sales are given by the minimum of realized demand and chosen capacities. We focus on the differences in behavior under fixed pairs and random rematching. Intuition suggests that long‐run relations should lead to more profitable outcomes. However, our results go against this intuition. While subjects' capacity choices are better aligned (i.e., closer together) under fixed pairs, average profits are more variable. Moreover, learning is slower under fixed pairs—so much so that over the last five periods, average profits are actually higher under random rematching. The underlying cause for this finding appears to be a “first‐impressions” bias, present only under fixed matching, in which the greater the misalignment in initial choices, the lower are average profits.     

Price Incentives and Coordination in a Two‐Product Decentralized Supply Chain

We investigate pricing incentives for competing retailers who distribute two variants of a manufacturer's product in a decentralized supply chain. Under a two‐dimensional Hotelling model, we derive decentralized retailers' prices for the products, and distortions in pricing when compared to centrally optimal prices. We show that price distortions decrease as consumers' travel cost between retailers increases, due to less intense competition. However, price distortions do not change monotonically in consumers' switching cost between products within stores. To fix decentralized retailers' price distortions, we construct a two‐part pricing contract that coordinates the supply chain. We show that the coordinating contract is Pareto‐improving and analyze increase in the supply chain profit under coordination.     

Non‐Manipulable House Allocation With Rent Control

In many real‐life house allocation problems, rents are bounded from above by price ceilings imposed by a government or a local administration. This is known as rent control. Because some price equilibria may be disqualified given such restrictions, this paper proposes an alternative equilibrium concept, called rationing price equilibrium, tailored to capture the specific features of housing markets with rent control. An allocation rule that always selects a rationing price equilibrium is defined, and it is demonstrated to be constrained efficient and (group) non‐manipulable for “almost all” preference profiles. In its bounding cases, the rule reduces to a number of well‐known mechanisms from the matching literature. In this sense, the housing market with rent control investigated in this paper integrates several of the predominant matching models into a more general framework.     

Bounded Memory and Biases in Information Processing

Before choosing among two actions with state‐dependent payoffs, a Bayesian decision‐maker with a finite memory sees a sequence of informative signals, ending each period with fixed chance. He summarizes information observed with a finite‐state automaton. I characterize the optimal protocol as an equilibrium of a dynamic game of imperfect recall; a new player runs each memory state each period. Players act as if maximizing expected payoffs in a common finite action decision problem. I characterize equilibrium play with many multinomial signals. The optimal protocol rationalizes many behavioral phenomena, like “stickiness,” salience, confirmation bias, and belief polarization.     

征收征用与公民基本权利保护

在我国的征收征用工作中时常出现侵权问题。为了解决这些问题,社会各界都提出了建议和对策。但现实中侵权现象仍不断出现,公民基本权利所受到的侵害始终得不到救济。本文拟从这个问题展开,探讨我国征收征用中相关公民基本权利保护问题。同时,征收征用中的侵权主要还涉及补偿问题,因而本文还将对补偿协商机制作一些探讨。     

西学东渐:论美国实用主义伦理思潮在中国

美国实用主义伦理思潮在我国的西学东渐至今已近百年。从历史沿革的角度来看,这个过程可分为该思潮被引入、被批判、被反思和被借鉴四个阶段。从理论变迁的角度来看,这个过程呈现出对该思潮代表人物思想的研究、该思潮与其他思潮观点的比较研究、该思潮在中国的传播及影响的研究,以及该思潮的整体性研究等四个不同主题。探究这段历史进程的原貌,发现其中的特征和规律,进而提出未来发展的趋势、需要注意的问题和需要改进的方面,对于我国当代伦理学的理论建构和实践探讨都具有重要的意义。     

当前传播语境下传受主体的消解与重建

以web2．0和3G手机为代表的新媒体传播中,非专业化的私人传播日益扩大,很多方面已经超越了职业传播者的影响,传统意义上的传播者和受众的概念正在模糊化和彼此消解。这对传播的社会影响肯定会带来一系列新的问题。传统的新闻传播者要充分认识网络传播环境的特点,把传统优势和网络特征结合起来,在网络传播时代重建自己的话语主导权。     

留守儿童情感缺失:工业化进程中的社会之痛

父母外出务工对留守儿童的内心情感与心理性格形成深远影响。身处家庭经济条件改善和家人团聚的两难选择之中,留守儿童一方面承载着内心封闭、孤独、忧伤、无助等情感,另一方面又体现出对父母与亲情的深切渴望和期盼。农村留守儿童面临的内心情感纠结问题已经不仅仅是家庭养育功能弱化带来的儿童社会化问题,更是中国工业化进程中的沉重社会代价。     

尼尔基水利枢纽工程粘性土分散性分析的研究

尼尔基水利枢纽位于黑龙江省与蒙古交界的嫩江干流上,工程基础可能存在分散性粘土。由于分散粘土对水利工程的危害极大,有必要对该工程使用的土料进行分散性鉴定。本文通过三种试验方法鉴定得出统一结论,判定该批土样为非分散性土。     

Culinary culture and globalization: an analysis of British and German Michelin-starred restaurants

The high-end restaurant segment in Britain and Germany has long been shaped by the cultural hegemony of French haute cuisine, perpetuated by multiple processes, including the influence of the Michelin or Red Guide. Traditionally, this hegemony has been expressed in the prevalence of French expatriate chefs, culinary techniques and style and even restaurant culture. This paper investigates whether processes of globalization have weakened or even undermined this French cultural dominance in fine-dining restaurants and their culinary culture. To this end, the study identifies the various forms taken by globalization processes in this industry segment and then assesses their impact on the dominance of the French paradigm of culinary culture. The investigation focuses on British and German Michelin-starred restaurants, underlining both commonalities and divergences in the process of interaction between French, global and local influences. The study employs a qualitative method, using a number of case studies to discern cross-industry patterns. All chefs with two or three stars in the two countries, i.e. 45 chefs, were selected for the analysis of their cuisine.