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Institutions Matter! Why the Herder Problem is Not a Prisoner's Dilemma
Cole, Daniel H. - 2008
In the game theory literature, Garrett Hardin's famous allegory of the tragedy of the commons has been modeled as a variant of the Prisoner's Dilemma, labeled the Herder Problem (or, sometimes, the Commons Dilemma). This brief paper argues that important differences in the institutional...
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Mécanismes d'échange en présence d'externalités
Biran, Omer - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
information and direct asymmetric externalities. Following a non-cooperative approach we study the negotiations process which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861639
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Some factors affecting independence movements: An overview
Gupta, Rupayan - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 2 (2007) 2, pp. 101-106
The article outlines a game-theoretic framework that can be used to analyze the nature and outcomes of independence movements in disputed or occupied regions. It is seen that the nature of an independence movement depends on a complex interplay among personal characteristics of movement leaders,...
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Essays on Experimental Investigation of Lottery Contests
Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
A contest is a situation in which individuals or groups expend costly resources while competing to win a specific prize. The variety of economic situations that can be described as contests has attracted enormous attention from economic theorists. Despite the extensive theoretical research of...
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Two-Person Fair Division of Indivisible Items: An Efficient, Envy-Free Algorithm
Brams, Steven J.; Kilgour, D. Marc; Klamler, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Many procedures have been suggested for the venerable problem of dividing a set of indivisible items between two players. We propose a new algorithm (AL), related to one proposed by Brams and Taylor (BT), which requires only that the players strictly rank items from best to worst. Unlike BT, in...
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Divide et Impera: Negotiating with a Stakeholder
Manzini, Paola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
In many kinds of bilateral negotiations the resolution of the issues at stake has an impact which extends beyond the … remits of the parties directly involved (e.g. labour negotiations in sectors of public interest, where a strike would impact … on the public at large). Once this is recognised, negotiations ought to account for the interests of such stakeholder …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233872
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Asymmetric R&D alliances and coopetitive games
Carfì, David; Bagileri, Daniela; Dagnino, Gianbattista - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper we show how the study of asymmetric R\&D alliances, that are those between young and small firms and large and MNEs firms for knowledge exploration and/or exploitation, requires the adoption of a coopetitive framework which consider both collaboration and competition. We draw upon...
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Strategic extremism
Appelbaum, Elie - Department of Economics, York University - 2006
This paper studies the strategic role of extremism within a two-country multi-stage game and shows that, in general, an equilibrium exists in which extremism is used by both rivals. We show that often changes in the environment affect the two countries differently. Specifically, as a country...
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Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life
Gintis, Herbert (contributor); Bowles, Samuel (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
Moral Sentiments and Material Interests presents an innovative synthesis of research in different disciplines to argue that cooperation stems not from the stereotypical selfish agent acting out of disguised self-interest but from the presence of "strong reciprocators" in a social group....
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Estado mínimo, agencias de protección y control territorial
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This article exposes key aspects for the theoretical analysis of the political reality in Colombia in moments of severe derived social uncertainty of the conflict and the fork of serious dilemmas on the institutional order that comes from political campaigns influenced decisively by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008561143