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Transboundary Externalities and Property Rights: An International River Pollution Model

van der Laan, Gerard; Moes, Nigel - 2012

In this paper we study international river pollution problems. We introduce a model in which the agents (countries …) located along a river derive benefit while causing pollution, but also incur environmental costs of experiencing pollution … from all upstream agents. We find that total pollution in the model decreases when the agents decide to cooperate. The …

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Bertrand Price Competition in a Social Environment

Tieman, Xander F.; van der Laan, Gerard; Houba, Harold - 1996

In this paper the behavior of producers in a social environment is considered from a more sociological point of view than is usually done in economics. The producers play Bertrand price competition against each other and change the action they played based upon the outcome of the game, according...

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Measuring the Power of Nodes in Digraphs

Herings, P. Jean-Jacques; van der Laan, Gerard; Talman, Dolf - 2001

Many economic and social situations can be represented by a digraph. Both axiomatic and iterativemethods to determine the strength or power of all the nodes in a digraph have been proposed inthe literature. We propose a new method, where the power of a node is determined by both thenumber of its...

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Harsanyi Power Solutions for Graph-restricted Games

van den Brink, René; van der Laan, Gerard; Pruzhansky, … - 2004

A situation in which a finite set of players can obtain certain payoffs by cooperation can be described by a cooperative game with transferable utility, or simply a TU-game. A solution for TU-games assigns a set of payoff distributions (possibly empty or consisting of a unique element) to every...

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Network Formation under Heterogeneous Costs: The Multiple Group Model

Kamphorst, Jurjen; van der Laan, Gerard - 2004

It is widely recognized that the shape of networks influences both individual and aggregate behavior. This raises the question which types of networks are likely to arise. Our paper fits into the literature that addresses this question. The paper continues on the work of Galeotti, Goyal and...

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Demand Adjustment in Coalitional Games

van der Laan, Gerard; Pruzhansky, Vitaly - 2004

This paper associates a strategic n-person game with a given transferable utility game and studies its Nash equilibria. Strict equilibria in this model characterize those divisions of social surplus that can become conventions in the sense of Young (1993). It is shown that even in relatively...

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