An Incremental Incentive Scheme (IIS) encourages some activity by rewarding an agent for overachieving a base level determined by past performance but not penalizing underachievement. We examine an IIS R&D subsidy in a dynamic model due to Grossman and Shapiro (1986). We show that the firm's...

Rubinstein Safra and Thomson (1992) introduced the Ordinal Nash Bargaining Solution. They proved that Pareto Optimality, Ordinal Invariance, Ordinal Symmetry, and IIA characterize this solution. They restrict attention to a domain of social choice problem with an infinite set of basic...