While customer acquisition is clearly important for new brands, mature brands are often said to rely on defection … defection? Or some mixture of both? Conversely, do brands decline through deficient acquisition or excessive defection? This … compare defection and acquisition against stochastic benchmarks for customer churn under stationary conditions. The results …

. Extending the classic Prisoner’s Dilemma (PD) game, we define the concept of the defection cost of subordinate individuals to … coexistence of cooperation and defection in a population with hierarchy dominance is possible. Our results are the first step to …

An increase in cartel discovery probability due to irregular price movements that result from cartel defection is shown … to increase cartel stability as short-run defection profits are less likely to be earned. …

An increase in cartel discovery probability due to irregular price movements that result from cartel defection is shown … to increase cartel stability as short-run defection profits are less likely to be earned. …

An increase in cartel discovery probability due to irregular price movements that result from cartel defection is shown … to increase cartel stability as short-run defection profits are less likely to be earned. …