This paper presents a new systematic review of N-person social dilemma games using a new approach based on dynamic properties of the corresponding system. Traditionally N-person social dilemma games are classified by relative orders of magnitude of payoff parameters. Without border-line cases 24...

The effects of partially cooperating firms are examined in N-firm oligopolies. The Herfindahl-Hirschmann Index is assumed to detect the violation of the antitrust regulation by the firms, and based on this assumption a piece-wise differentiable dynamic system can be developed. The firms stop...

This paper considers contests in which the efforts of the players determine the value of the prize. Players may have different valuations of the prize and different abilities to convert expenditures to productive efforts. In addition, players may face different financial constraints. This paper...

This study reconsiders a duopoly model with advertisement introduced earlier by Ahmed, Agiza and Hassan [1999]. It demonstrates three major findings. The first is that the model can be destabilized via either flip bifurcation or Hopf bifurcation. The second is that a half-pitchfork bifurcation...