Selling an activity between firms is mainly analysed, in a structural approach, as an adjustment to new market constraints. The aim of this article is to show that a business unit transfer to a competitor may be analysed as the result of an aggressive behaviour of this competitor. This...

We present a model for studying aggregation and splitting in identical self-propelled particle swarms. A long-range attractive and short-range repulsive interaction among particles is assumed for aggregation of the individuals, and an intermediate-range Gaussian-shaped repulsive interaction is...

We theoretically show that agents with loss-averse preferences facing a decision to receive a bad financial payoff if they report honestly or to receive a better financial payoff if they report dishonestly are more likely to lie to avoid receiving the low payoff the lower the ex-ante probability...

Studying the likelihood that individuals cheat requires a valid statistical measure of dishonesty. We develop an easy empirical method to measure and compare lying behavior within and across studies to correct for sampling errors. This method estimates the full distribution of lying when agents...