This paper generalizes the classical existence results for games with discontinuous payoffs, developed by Dasgupta and Maskin in 1986. This new existence result is then applied to a simple duopoly model with quantity precommitment and Bertrand competition. Copyright 1997 by Blackwell Publishing...

Do the citizens have a role in constraining policies in autocratic governments? Usually the political and economic literature model autocracy as if the citizens have no role in constraining leader’s behavior, but actually autocratic government are afraid of possible citizens’ revolts. In...

Questo saggio si propone come ausilio metodologico per favorire la discussione e la comparazione di approcci alternativi alla contaminazione tra economia, psicologia e scienze sociali in genere. Il suo scopo specifico Š di esemplificare le modalita' di fertilizzazione incrociata tra queste...