Corporations allocate to their corporate governance structures authority over a large part of the transactions they carry out, both regulated by (incomplete) labour contracts or by (incomplete) arm's length contracts. These contracts, as the eventuality of unforeseen contingencies is...

We study whether "coercive" public provision or voluntary private provision of public goods can survive when individuals who "vote with their feet" can choose between communities that differ in the way that public goods are provided. We obtain the following findings: (i) an equilibrium always...

The concept of materiality provides a basis for auditors to ignore small misstatements, but the definition of small in this context is ambiguous. The issue of "materiality-standard-setting" has been raised recently by Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the Security and Exchange Commission. We...

This paper establishes a general analytical framework for the impulse controls of the diffusion processes driven by multidimensional G-Brownian motion. We propose new G-quasi-variational inequalities (G-QVI) and we provide a verification theorem to link a classical (smooth) solution of the G-QVI...

This paper explores the extent to which people learn in repeated games without feedback, and the extent to which this learning transfers to new games. Current theories of learning model learning as adjustment in behavior in response to feedback about outcomes and payoffs and largely ignore the...

The iterative elimination of strongly dominated strategies (IESDS) and mixed-equilibrium solution concepts are studied in an iterated two-person investment game with discrete strategy spaces, non-recoverable investments, and either equal or unequal investment capital. In this game, the player...

The fraction of customers who choose a particular item from among a set of available items can be increased significantly by the inclusion of a related inferior (and apparently irrelevant) item in the choice set. This violation of the independence from irrelevant alternatives and the regularity...

When a new product or technology is introduced, potential consumers can learn its quality by trying the product, at a risk, or by letting others try it and free-riding on the information that they generate. We propose a dynamic game to study the adoption of technologies of uncertain value, when...

In this paper I discuss what we have learned about how the structure of social networks impacts economic behaviors, and why it is important to include network information in many economic studies. I also discuss some issues of estimating models of network formation, and some of the challenges of...

Tacit coordination in large groups is studied in an iterated market entry game with complete information and multiple market capacities that are varied randomly from period to period. On each period, each player must decide independently whether to enter any of the markets, and if entering,...