In both military and economic situations, agents may try to mislead adversaries about true types or plans, whatever they may be. We consider a simple model in which one player attacks and the other player defends. We show that such environments have two types of possible equilibrium behavior,...

This paper is interested to introduce a new number that is called “Megasfinity”. The main objective to propose the uses of Megasfinity is because multi-dimensional coordinate spaces request the uses of an alternative number. This is because we need to analyze different general-spaces,...

The current second round distress in the Nigerian financial system within two decades is capable of causing a total systemic collapse of the entire Nigerian financial system (which includes the organs of the capital market). The approach of this article is not to look at AMCON alone as an...

Under existing Executive Orders, agencies are generally required to quantify both benefits and costs, and (to the extent permitted by law) to show that the former justify the latter. But when agencies lack relevant information, they cannot quantify certain benefits. If this is so, how should...

Online mediation is spreading rapidly as a mode of practice. In this chapter, Ebner surveys the development of e-mediation within the wider context of ODR growth. Next, the chapter presents a snapshot of the field’s status quo with respect to stakeholders, modes of communication and the...

'Transparency' is a term which many speculate. According to scholars, Transparency has three inter-related aims: first, to inform citizens in a simple and understandable way on the government’s decisions: second, to foster civil society participation and engagement; and, third, to monitor and...

Urbanization presents students of commons dilemmas with a pressing challenge: how to achieve the benefits of proximity among people and land uses while curbing the negative effects of that same proximity. This piece, written for the 2014 BYU Law Review Symposium on the Global Commons, focuses on...

Despite the proliferation of scholarly work on the capability approach, and its wide endorsement as a theoretical framework in a variety of applications, there are very few sufficiently detailed accounts of what the capability approach exactly is. This is unfortunate, since a more robust...

According to PETWORLD financials, the year 2012 had seen a dip in sales, fewer people coming into its stores, and comparable store sales that were weaker than expected. Competition in the pet-care market was increasingly fierce with a variety of players, big and small, fighting for market share....

This case study, intended as a teaching exercise, highlights the problems of contracting in a world of great uncertainty. Streetwatch is a startup company seeking financing, and the CEO has received two offers for investment, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. The case highlights...