Web Services and Peer-to-Peer are two concepts for distributed computing which gained much attention within the academic community. The former one was developed with the intention to provide interoperability within heterogeneous environments. The latter one offers a paradigm where resources are...

We examine the interaction between vote-share contracts and learning-by-doing. Candidates for a political office are allowed to offer vote-share thresholds. The elected politician has to achieve at least this threshold value in his reelection result to remain in office for a second term. We...