In this paper we axiomatically characterize two recursive procedures for defining a social group. The first procedure … of the second procedure is the set of all individuals who define themselves as members of the social group. Both …

evidence. The parties may misrepresent evidence in their favor at a cost. At equilibrium the two parties never testify together …. When the evidence is much in favor of one party, this party testifies. When the evidence is close to the prior mean, no … party testifies. We compare this outcome under a purely adversarial procedure with the outcome under a purely inquisitorial …

, our firms have imperfect cumulative evidence of the collusion. That is, cartel conviction is not automatic if one firm … reports: reporting makes conviction only more likely, the more so, the more firms report. Furthermore, the evidence is … distributed asymmetrically among firms. Asymmetry of the evidence can increase the cost of deterrence if the high-evidence firm …

In this paper, I discuss the difference between accommodated evidence (i.e. when evidence is known first and a … hypothesis is the proposed to explain and fit the observations) and predicted evidence (i.e., when evidence verifies the … prediction of a hypothesis formulated before observing the evidence) from a behavioral as well as a statistical perspective …

A speaker attempts to persuade a listener to accept a request by presenting evidence. A persuasion rule specifies what … evidence is persuasive. This paper compares static and dynamic rules. We present a single linear program (i) whose solution …

We study a seller's optimal mechanism for maximizing revenue when a buyer may present evidence relevant to her value … mechanism to be deterministic--hence akin to classic third degree price discrimination--independently of non-evidence … characteristics. We also find another sufficient condition depending on both evidence and valuations, whose content is that evidence …