In this study, we seek to uncover how exogenous shocks shape the dynamics between geopolitics and global trade. By using coupling theory, we propose that the intricate interplay between politics and trade can occurs with different nuances and degrees of coupling. We introduce four different...

A two-person game-theoretical model is suggested in order to explain traffic safety behaviour among road users. A road user's outcome is dependent on her and her opponent's attitude towards aggression, her and her opponent's level of attention, as well as on external traffic safety conditions....

This paper focuses on welfare optimal transport policies in a public transport market where positive externalities from the route supplier to the travellers as well as negative externalities within group of consumers exist. Additionally, there might be capacity constraints of two types. Firstly,...

This paper analyses optimal contracts in a principal-agent model where the agent is intrinsically motivated at the outset and there is an endogenous relationship between the structure of incentive payments and intrinsic motivation (crowding effects). The analysis shows that crowding effects have...

The paper deals with rent-seeking behaviour among agents competing for future shares of a common renewable natural resource. Rent-seeking might become profitable when the agents expect that the distribution of the natural resource in future periods will be dependent on the agents' extraction of...