In this paper we examine how the addition of imperfect recall as a perturbation to aperfect recall game can be used as an equilibrium refinement. We discuss the propertiesof two such concepts, from the addition of complete confusion between similarhistories to considering small ‘trembles’ in...

Public choice analysts have often argued that the level of government spending willreflect voter-taxpayer’s demand for public goods, while the fiscal illusion literature hasargued that certain features of the tax structure affect voter’s perceptions of their taxburden causing them to...

Bargaining under uncertainty is modeled by the assumption that thereare several possible states of nature, each of which is identied with abargaining problem...

This paper provides an analysis of individual and social decision criteria foralternatives that are composed of several attributes. We derive additive and multiplicativecriteria for individual decision-making with new axioms and apply these criteria toobtain new justications of known social...

This paper provides an axiomatic approach to the problem of measuring the informationcontained in opportunity sets. In many choice situations, the items that can be selectedfrom an opportunity set (the objects of choice) do not coincide with the consequencesthey induce (the objects a...

This note investigates the extension of Roberts' price-independent welfare prescriptions toalternatives in which population size and composition can vary. We show that ethicallyunsatisfactory orderings result. Suppose that a single person is to be added to a populationthat is unaected in utility...

In pure population problems, a single resource is to be distributed equally among theagents in a society, and the social planner chooses population size(s) and per-capita consumption(s) for each resource constraint and set of feasible population sizes within thedomain of the solution...