The self-organization into cooperative regimes of a system of "selfish" agents playing the pairwise Prisoner's Dilemma game (PDG) is analyzed using a simple agent-based model. At each time step t, the agents divide into those who cooperate (C) and those who defect (D). The agents have no memory...

In a neoclassical growth model with many regions and a mobile factor, two federal arrangements are considered. In the first federal arrangement the central government chooses a uniform tax policy, whereas in the second each regional government chooses its own tax policy. The main result is that...

Maschler, Owen and Peleg (1988) constructed a dynamic system for modelling a possible negotiation process for players facing a smooth n-person pure bargaining game, and showed that all paths of this system lead to the Nash point. They also considered the non-convex case, and found in this case...