Stratejik iliskiler guc merkezli uluslararasi politikanin bir gercegi olarak karsimiza cikmaktadir. Bu durum beraberinde stratejik iliskilerin siniflandirilmasi ihtiyacini getirmektedir; cunku stratejik iliskiler asimetrik gibi, kendisini isbirligi ve ortaklik seklinde de gosterebilir. Stratejik...

Abundant evidence suggests that high levels of contributions to public goods can be sustained through self-governed monitoring and sanctions. This experimental study investigates the effectiveness of decentralized sanctioning institutions in alternative punishment networks. Our results show that...

The paper proves, by construction, the existence of Markovian equilibria in a model of dynamic spatial legislative bargaining. Players bargain over policies in an infinite horizon. In each period, a majority vote takes place between the proposal of a randomly selected player and the status-quo,...

Do political tensions affect economic relations? In particular, does politics significantly affect consumer choices? Firms are often threatened by consumer boycotts that pretend to modify their business strategies and behavior. Sometimes these are caused by general political conflicts. The main...

Does poverty lead to crime? We shed light on this question using two independent and exogenous shocks to household income in rural India: the dramatic reduction in import tariffs in the early 1990s and rainfall variations. We find that trade shocks, previously shown to raise relative poverty,...

An evolutionary tool kit is applied in this paper to explain how innate social behavior traits evolved in early human groups. These traits were adapted to the particular production requirements of the group in human phylogeny. They shaped the group members' attitudes towards contributing to the...

This article uses evolutionary game theory to reveal the interpersonal and geographic characteristics of a society that make it vulnerable to a conquest from within by terrorist organizations and genocide architects. Under conditions identified in the space-less version of the model,...

This paper places genocide or mass murder in a continuum of actions that a ruling power can take to remove an unwanted group from a society; that is, it views extermination as a means to an end, and it assumes that perpetrators are rational in the sense that they will choose the combination of...

Hosszú vajúdás után, 2002 õszén Magyarországon is beindult a SAPARD- (Special Accession Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development) program, amely az EU elõcsatlakozási programcsomagján belül a kelet-közép-európai mezõgazdaság és a vidékfejlesztés csatlakozásra való...

A bizalom, amely a legegyszerűbb cseréknek is előfeltétele, különös jelentőségre tesz szert az elektronikus piacokon. A szerző kályhaként egy játékelméleti modellből indul ki, hogy megvilágítsa: miként hidalhatják át az alkalmi partnerek az egymás stratégiaválasztásaira...