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Economic foundations of generalized games with shared constraint : do binding agreements lead to less Nash equilibria?

Braouezec, Yann; Kiani, Keyvan - In: European journal of operational research : EJOR 308 (2023) 1, pp. 467-479

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Endogenous Coalition Formation in Contests

Sanchez-Pages, Santiago - School of Economics, University of Edinburgh - 2007

compete by investing resources. Coalitions fight for prizes that are assumed to be subject to rivalry, so their value is non … defection, provided that rivalry is not too strong. Results in a sequential game of coalition formation suggest that there … exists a non-monotonic relationship between the level of underlying rivalry and the level of social conflict. …

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Turkish and Iranian involvement in Iraq and Syria: Competing strategies, rising threat perceptions, and potentials for conflict

Azizi, Hamidreza; Çevik, Salim - 2022

It has become cliché to argue that Turkish-Iranian relations oscillate between a controlled rivalry and limited …

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On the Social Structure of Markets

Jackson, William A. - In: Cambridge Journal of Economics 31 (2007) 2, pp. 235-253

Economic theorists have seldom discussed the social structures behind markets, even though market trading relies heavily on seller/buyer roles and personal relations among traders. This paper considers the structural basis of markets and proposes a layered approach which accommodates a wide...

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Under What Conditions are Decentralized Solutions to Collective Action Problems Likely?

Maier-Rigaud, Frank - 2000

"The paper outlines conditions under which decentralized approaches are likely to succeed in solving collective action problems. Criteria that render successful decentralized collective action more likely have mainly been developed in the Common Pool Resource (CPR) and International Relations...

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The Dynamics of Continuing Conflict

Reuveny, Rafael; Maxwell, John W. - 2000

"There is a relatively small but growing literature in economics that examines conflictive activities using a framework in which agents allocate their resource endowments between wealth production and appropriation. To date, studies in this literature have employed a similar one period game...

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Territorial Capital and Regional Growth: Increasing Returns in Cognitive Knowledge Use

Capello, Roberta; Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2009

Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space-economy. Hence, we would expect a strong correlation between investments in R&D, knowledge and learning processes, on the one hand, and productivity increases, on the other. However, the empirical evidence shows consistent...

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Balancing Performance Measures When Agents Behave Competitively in an Environment With Technological Interdependencies

Sandner, Kai - 2008

developed rivalry. We find that the principal reacts to his agents' competitive preferences through a reallocation of incentive … exhibit rivalry while the other ideally should behave completely egoistically. …

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Differences in Social Preferences - Are They Profitable for the Firm?

Küpper, Hans-Ulrich; Sandner, Kai - 2008

measures as well as on a firm’s profitability. We consider rivalry, egoism and altruism as extreme forms within the continuum …

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Imminent Entry and the Transition to Multimarket Rivalry in a Laboratory Setting

Mason, Charles F.; Phillips, Owen R. - 2016

In this paper we study the behavior of rivals when there is a known probability of imminent entry. Experimental markets are used to collect data on pre- and post-entry production when there is an announced time of possible entry; some markets experience entry and other do not. In all pre-entry...

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