A game-theoretic setting is used to illuminate the conflict between vaccination proponents and vaccination opponents. A … central result is that vaccination proponents could in principle persuade vaccination opponents to vaccinate by means of …

vaccination on the part of governments and citizens. It specifically constructs a noncooperative static game with complete … information between the citizen and the government encompassing the strategies of vaccination and no vaccination with regard to … sole and strict pure strategy Nash equilibrium, being that of strategies no vaccination and no imposition, respectively …

This paper explores how governments may efficiently inform the public about an epidemic to induce compliance with their … exaggerate the severity of the epidemic if the government heavily prioritizes the economy over population health or vice versa … severity of the epidemic. When the government weighs the economy and population health sufficiently equally, however, the …

This paper explores how governments may efficiently inform the public about an epidemic to induce compliance with their … exaggerate the severity of the epidemic if it heavily prioritizes the economy over population health or vice versa. Importantly … the epidemic. When the government weighs the economy and population health sufficiently equally, however, the government …

This paper explores how governments may efficiently inform the public about an epidemic to induce compliance with their … exaggerate the severity of the epidemic if it heavily prioritizes the economy over population health or vice versa. Importantly … the epidemic. When the government weighs the economy and population health sufficiently equally, however, the government …

investigate the incentives to expend effort for a prize that produces consumption externalities and consider alternative … regulatory policies. We find relatively more global consumption externalities will increase (decrease) rent seeking when … consumption externalities are negative (positive). We show how introducing Pigouvian taxation (possibly with revenue transfer) and …

externalities. An organization is defined as a group of agents, together with a set of bilateral relations, formally, a connected … graph. Because of the presence of externalities, the profitability of coalitional threats to an organization depend on the … externalities, while the fully connected organization emerges under negative. This result is shown to hold independently of the …