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Weighted congestion games with separable preferences
Milchtaich, Igal - 2009
Players in a congestion game may differ from one another in their intrinsic preferences (e.g., the benefit they get from using a specific resource), their contribution to congestion, or both. In many cases of interest, intrinsic preferences and the negative effect of congestion are (additively...
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What to maximize if you must
Heifetz, Aviad; Shannon, Chris; Spiegel, Yossi - 2004
The assumption that decision makers choose actions to maximize their preferences is a central tenet in economics. This assumption is often justied either formally or informally by appealing to evolutionary arguments. In contrast, we show that in almost every game and for almost every family of...
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The resolution game: A multiple selves perspective
Migrow, Dimitri; Uhl, Matthias - 2009
The notion of choice inconsistency is widely spread in the literature on behavioral economics. Several approaches were used to account for the observation that people reverse their choices over time. This paper aims to explain the formation of resolutions regarded as internal self-binding...
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Individual sense of fairness: An experimental study
Karni, Edi; Salmon, Timothy C.; Sopher, Barry - 2001
This paper presents an experimental test of the theory of individual sense of fairness of Karni and Safra (2000 …). According to this theory individuals' choice among random procedures designed to allocate indivisible goods is motivated, in …
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Strategic choice of preferences: The persona model
Wolpert, David H.; Jamison, Julian; Newth, David; … - 2010
We introduce a modification to the two-timescale games studied in the evolution of preferences (EOP) literature. In this modification, the strategic process occurring on the long timescale is learning by an individual across his or her lifetime, not natural selection operating on genomes over...
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Divergent platforms
Bade, Sophie - 2011
A robust feature of models of electoral competition between two opportunistic, purely office-motivated parties is that both parties become indistinguishable in equilibrium. I this short note, I show that this strong connection between the office motivation of parties and their equilibrium choice...
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Intention-based fairness preferences in two-player contests
Hoffmann, Magnus; Kolmar, Martin - 2013
We analyze equilibria of two-player contests where players have intention-based preferences. We find that players invest more effort compared to the case with selfish preferences and are even willing to exert effort when the monetary value of the prize converges to zero. As a consequence,...
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The New Basel Accord and the Nature of Risk: A Game Theoretic Perspective
Siebe, Wilfried; Milde, Hellmuth; Broll, Udo; Bieta, Volker - 2007
– game theory is a useful set of tools for better understanding different risk settings. Embedded in a short history of the … Basel Accord in this article we introduce some basic ideas of game theory in the context of rating procedures in accordance … with Basel II. As well, some insight is given how game theory works. Here, the primary value of game theory stems from its …
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To Help or not to Help: The Samaritan's Dilemma Revisited
Schmidtchen, Dieter - 1999
Helping somebody may undermine his incentives to work. What Buchanan identified more than 25 years ago as the Samaritan's dilemma is basically a time-inconsistency problem. The paper discusses possible solutions of the dilemma such as punishment within an iterated game, reshaping the game in the...
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Product innovation and product innovation marketing: theory and microeconometric evidence
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2001
This paper derives a three stage Cournot?oligopoly game for product innovation, expenditure on introducing the product and competition on the product market. Product innovation is assumed to increase consumer utility but is effective only if the innovating firm invests in marketing, so that...
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