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. Constraining choices increases segregation and affects the stability and efficiency of the final allocation. Remarkably, the …
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stability of water allocation agreements, using a game theoretic model. We consider the effects of climate change and the choice … of a sharing rule on stability. Our results show that both a decrease in mean river flow and an increase in the variance … of river flow decrease the stability of an agreement. An agreement where the downstream country is allocated a fixed …
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Since the seminal contribution of Jackson & Wolinsky 1996 [A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks, JET 71, 44-74] it has been widely acknowledged that the formation of social networks exhibits a general conflict between individual strategic behavior and collective outcome. What has...
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of view of stability. After recalling the two competing concepts of stability in use in the IEA literature, new insights …. Free riding is also evaluated in relation with the alternative forms of stability under scrutiny. Finally, it is asked … efficiency and stability. A skeptical answer is offered, as a reply to Barrett’s (2003) attempt at giving the notion a specific …
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This paper studies many-to-one matching market in which each agent’s preferences not only depend on the institution …
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We consider a model of the “world" with several regions that may create a unified entity or be partitioned into several unions (countries). The regions have distinct preferences over policies chosen in the country to which they belong and equally share the cost of public policies. It is known...
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We study the stability of social and economic networks when players are farsighted. In particular, we examine whether …
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This paper compares stability of international environmental agreements for six different rules of coalition formation … coalitions. From a policy perspective, counterintuitively, it turns out that stability is higher under exclusive than under open … membership and stability increases with the degree of unanimity. We discuss the policy implications of our result for future …
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A coalitional matching is a two-sided matching problem in which agents on each side of the market may form coalitions …
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We study hedonic games with heterogeneous player types that reflect her nationality, ethnic background, or skill type. Agents' preferences are dictated by status-seeking where status can be either local or global. The two dimensions of status define the two components of a generalized constant...
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