Variations of Richard Goodwin's graphical model for explaining the rudiments of Keynes's real/monetary cycle theory are presented that can also be explicated graphically, but which possess more plausible dynamic properties, namely, the generic possibility of irregular, asymmetric fluctuations

In the developing world, kidnapping is relatively common, and a market for kidnap insurance has arisen in response. We provide a model that allows us to analyze how kidnap insurance will affect the interaction between the kidnapper and the victim's family when both are self-interested and have...

Experiments with real and computational agents are used to examine the impact of changing the level of a non-employment payoff on the evolution of cooperation between workers and employers participating in a sequential employment game with incomplete contracts. Workers either direct work offers...

This study uses an agent-based computational experiments to examine the effects of a non-employment payment on network formation and work-site behaviors among workers and employers participating in a sequential employment game with incomplete contracts. Findings are compared with those obtained...

This paper reports the results of human subject and computational experiments designed to examine how the level of the "inactivity payments" to workers and to employers affects the evolution of cooperation among workers and employers. The related impacts to unemployment and job vacancy rates are...

The problem of decision making in the face of uncertainty is a ubiquitous problem in day to day economic decision making. Psychologists have found that a number of factors can influence the quality of such decision making, including ability, temperament and of course sheer luck. We report the...