Cournot duopoly and tacit collusion under fairness and reciprocal preferences

Doruk ˙Iris 한국계량경제학회 2017 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY AND ECONOMETRICS Vol.28 No.4

This paper studies the impact of fairness and reciprocity on collusion between firms competing in quantities in infinitely repeated games. A reciprocal firm responds to unkind behavior of rivals with unkind actions (destructive reciprocity), while at the same time, it responds to kind behavior of rivals with kind actions (constructive reciprocity). The paper shows that when firms are reciprocal, collusive quantity profiles are easier to sustain for reasonable perceptions of fair quantities of rivals. However, if only very low quantities deemed as fair, then sustaining collusion could be more difficult when the firms have fairness concerns.

Public accountability in the Internet age: changing roles for governments and citizens

Iris Vanhommerig,Philip Marcel Karré 한국행정학회 2014 International Review of Public Administration Vol.19 No.2

The Internet has created opportunities for instant and cheap communication, includingcommunication between government and citizens. The interactive capabilities of Web 2.0 in general and social media in particular have turned this communication from a (mostly) one-way stream to an interactive experience. This low-cost, accessible medium has levelled the playing field between government and citizen: everyone now has the means to organize and spread a message at their fingertips. As a result, the role of citizens in the public discourse has changed: they have become monitorial citizens and armchair auditors. Public accountability, one of the key processes in any democracy, is changing and become a more dynamic process. In this article we describe this trend and discuss its implications.

Loss Aversion in International Environmental Agreements

Iris, Doruk,Tavoni, Alessandro Korean Resource Economics Association 2018 자원·환경경제연구 Vol.27 No.2

We study the impact of loss-aversion and the threat of critical damages from insufficient pollutant abatement, which we jointly call threshold concerns, on the outcome of international environmental agreements. We aim to understand whether concerns for a critical level of damages induce cooperation among countries faced with the well-known free-riding problem, and yield sufficient emission reductions to avoid exceeding the threshold. Specifically, we focus on loss-averse countries negotiating under the threat of either high or low environmental damages. Under symmetry, when countries display identical degrees of threshold concern, we show that such beliefs have a positive effect on reducing the emission levels of both signatories to the treaty and non-signatories, leading to weakly larger coalitions of signatories than in the absence of reference dependence. We then introduce asymmetry, by allowing countries to differ in the degree of concern about the damages. We show that stable coalitions are mostly formed by the countries with higher threshold concerns. When enough countries exhibit standard preferences, the coalition size may diminish, regardless of the degree of concern by the others.

Digital Library Evaluation Criteria: What do Users Want?

Iris Xie,Soohyung Joo,Krystyna K. Matusiak 한국비블리아학회 2014 한국비블리아학회지 Vol.25 No.1

Criteria for evaluating digital libraries have been suggested in prior studies, but limited research has been done to understand users’ perceptions of evaluation criteria. This study investigates users’ opinions of the importance of digital library evaluation criteria. Thirty user participants, including 10 faculty members and 20 students, were recruited from five universities across the United States. They were asked to rate the importance of evaluation criteria in eight dimensions (e.g. collections, information organization, context, etc.). The results demonstrate that users care about evaluation criteria related to the use and quality of collection and services rather than the operation of digital libraries. The findings of this study are relevant to the development of user-centered digital libraries and associated evaluation frameworks through the incorporation of unique users’ needs and preferences.

Post-modern Bizarre & Post-human Zombie:Warm Bodies and Titus

Iris H. Tuan 한국셰익스피어학회 2022 셰익스피어 비평 Vol.57 No.4

Applying post-modernist theory, this article explores two films inspired by Shakespeare that epitomize popular entertainment culture: Warm Bodies (2013) and Titus (1999). It analyzes the post-modern bizarre spectacle and post-human zombie images in the films. Warm Bodies adapts Romeo & Juliet through images of zombies, corpses, and skeletons to go beyond life and death and blur the distinction between human and post-human. In the film Titus, starring Anthony Hopkins, Director Julie Taymor utilizes the resources of cinematography to give graphic images to bloody hatred, revenge, rape, mutilation, and toxic masculinity. In Warm Bodies, cinematic images visualize post-human zombie love in an apocalyptic way to transcend the boundary between the living and the dead which is suggested in Romeo and Juliet. The post-modern bizarre, bloody, and violent scenes in Taymor’s Titus express Shakespeare’s linguistic power vividly via big-screen aesthetics and CGI special effects which help the audience to transcend time and space and bring them back to ancient Rome.

Thermal comfort – an intercultural comparison

Iris Ramme,Tom Gillpatrick 한국마케팅과학회 2021 마케팅과학연구 Vol.31 No.1

Growing energy consumption together with the problem of increasing CO2 emissions are widely viewed as critical factors for achieving global sustainability. The Green Building Council has estimated that 39% of CO2 emissions come from buildings and that this percentage is increasing. While much of home energy consumption is related to heating and cooling there is little research on how consumers manage the temperature in their homes. This study examines residential consumer perceptions regarding thermal comfort with the objective of gaining insights on how to reduce energy consumption for heating or cooling homes. Thus, we would gain insights for achieving a more sustainable approach for energy consumption while considering ecological, economic, and social aspects.

Cournot duopoly and tacit collusion under fairness and reciprocal preferences

Iris Haydar Doruk 한국계량경제학회 2017 계량경제학보 Vol.28 No.4

This paper studies the impact of fairness and reciprocity on collusion between firms competing in quantities in infinitely repeated games. A reciprocal firm responds to unkind behavior of rivals with unkind actions (destructive reciprocity), while at the same time, it responds to kind behavior of rivals with kind actions (constructive reciprocity). The paper shows that when firms are reciprocal, collusive quantity profiles are easier to sustain for reasonable perceptions of fair quantities of rivals. However, if only very low quantities deemed as fair, then sustaining collusion could be more difficult when the firms have fairness concerns.

Decomposition in Soil - Evaluation of Cemetery Soils

Iris Zimmermann,Heiner Fleige,Rainer Horn 한국토양비료학회 2014 한국토양비료학회 학술발표회 초록집 Vol.2014 No.6

MISSING PRICE-RELATED INFORMATION – AN ASSESSMENT OF PRICING PRACTICES IN THE B2B CONTEXT–

Iris Schmut 글로벌지식마케팅경영학회 2020 Global Marketing Conference Vol.2020 No.11

Imagining Female Heroism: Three Tales of the Female Knight-Errant in Republican China

Iris Ma 고려대학교 민족문화연구원 2019 Cross-Currents Vol.0 No.31

Invented largely for urban audiences and widely circulated across multiple media, the image of the female knight-errant attracted unprecedented attention among writers, readers, publishers, and officials in the first half of the twentieth century. This article focuses on three best-selling martial arts tales published in Republican China (1912–1949), paying particular attention to their martial heroines. It also explores what granted the female knight-errant character such enduring popularity and how the writers—Xiang Kairan, Gu Mingdao, and Wang Dulu—garnered the interest of their readers. As the author points out, martial arts novelists drew on a long and rich genre repertoire formulated before 1911 while taking into consideration contemporary debates regarding gender, thereby maintaining the female knight-errant figure as a relevant and compelling construct. More importantly, the author argues, through portraying their martial heroines in relation to family, courtship, and female subjectivity, martial arts novelists resisted the prevailing discourse on Chinese womanhood of their times while imagining female heroism.