just obeying and, hence, to be irrational. In this paper we offer a different approach which postulates rationality of all …

This paper provides a theoretical analysis regarding the rationality of suicide attacks from an economist’s point of … psychological concepts of cognitive dissonance and terror management theory into our economic analysis, we demonstrate why … – although predicted by standard economic theory – defection is a phenomenon rarely observed. We finally present some policy …

Several types of constraints must be satisfied by schedules of real world sports leagues, e. g. stadium unavailability … constraints are considered as 'soft' ones. There are various models appropriately describing the environment of real sport leagues … here a model which satisfies the demands of many sports leagues. We solve our model by a method which consists in …

"spatial value number" reveals the incompatibility of rationality and aesthetics: the individual urban experience cannot be …

We model individual careers in sports and games from initial entry to eventual exit or success as a discrete …

endogenous variable that depends on the share of drug using athletes in the history of a sport. This way, the model can explain … sport, e.g. Olympic qualification marks, and by the taste of victory, i.e. the disproportionate public veneration of winners. …