reduces both moderate and extreme violence. The reason is that a high penalty keeps relatively 'gutless' individuals from … relatively 'tough' individuals to commit moderately violent acts and so makes moderate violence more attractive for otherwise …

their human capital, but also due to their culturally biased different bargaining power on the labour market. …

decisionmakers into a general structure of formal authority relations. Within such an authority structure, each decision maker acts … under which conditions decision makers decide to exercise their own authority and to accept their superiors' authority ….We distinguish two types of behavior within such an authority situation. First, we investigate a non-cooperative equilibrium concept …

can have better power than alternative Empirical Distribution Function tests. …

exchange is either coercive or voluntary, and relative strength governs power relations in coercive exchange. We stress the … importance of free disposal of goods which allows for excess holdings larger than consumption, thereby modelling the power to …

This discussion paper led to a chapter in .Voting Power and Procedures: Essays in Honour of Dan Felsenthal and Moshé … mix-up of the notions of success and satisfaction which is prevailing in the voting power literature. We demonstrate that … is predominant in the voting power literature. However, we provide two examples of sequential decision-making mechanisms …

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Public Choice', 151, 757-787. <P> Power is a core concept in the … analysis and design of organizations. One of the problems with the extant literature on positional power in hierarchies is that … it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the actors. While such an analysis …

affect the behavior of their followers. Hence, opinion leaders have some power over their followers, and they can exercise … this power by influencing their followers choice of action. We study a two-action model for a society with opinion leaders … choice is made by simple majority of the actions chosen by each member. For this model we axiomatize satisfaction and power …