The present paper analyzes situations in which groups compete for rents. A major result in the literature has been that there are both cases where larger groups have advantages and cases where they have disadvantages. The paper provides two intuitive criteria which for groups with homogenous...

Theoretical analysis and empirical evidence show that leadership behavior in climate policy through increased abatement efforts or international transfers cannot be expected to be very successful. In this paper we instead show that pioneering activities, which are based on green technological...

This paper examines international cooperation on technological development as an alternative to international cooperation on GHG emission reductions. In order to analyze the scope of cooperation, a three-stage technology agreement formation game is solved. First, countries decide whether or not...

This paper examines international cooperation on technological development as an alternative to international cooperation on GHG emission reductions. In order to analyze the scope of cooperation, a three-stage technology agreement formation game is solved. First, countries decide whether or not...

Since around 2000 the education premium and the level of employment in high-skill occupations has stagnated, if not actually begun to shrink. This brings into question the generally held view that in advanced countries, while potentially harmful for those who work with their hands, globalization...

This paper analyzes an infinitely repeated game of contest for resources. It studies how rent seeking technology affects the long term sustainability of pluralistic competition where there is more than one contestant to resources. If there is over dissipation of rent, pluralistic competition is...

The purpose of this article is to encourage research on the aspects of consumer behaviour, particularly as found in groups of consumers. For both researchers and practitioners, consumer knowledge is a critical factor in creating competitive success over time. But there is a gap in the knowledge...

Distributed ledger technology emerged in 2009 as the protocol behind bitcoin, a cryptocurrency with origins in the ‘cypherpunk' community who sought to use cryptography to secede from government control of money. Bitcoin's pseudonymous inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto said Bitcoin would be “very...