oligopoly model with horizontally differentiated goods. We characterize the conditions under which IPJV is privately optimal …

We develop a model of strategic networks in order to analyze how trade unions will affect the stability and efficiency … network. Thus, a conflict between stability and efficiency may occur: efficient networks are pairwise stable, but the reverse … is not true. Strong stability even reinforces this conflict. However, once unions settle wages such conflict disappears …

for three specific linear quadratic games - Cournot oligopoly, Keynes’ beauty contest and Public good provision - in which …

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 …

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 …