Regular brand buyers may be brand loyals if they exhibit strong and positive attitudes towards the brand leading them to be committed to purchasing it in the future. They can also buy the brand regularly out of mere habit or for practical reasons. This is called inertia. Finally, regular brand...

The paper outlines in an informal an summary way some perspectives suggested by game theory for analysing the problem of the acquisition and use of force, the shift in its use from coercion to the power to enforce rules, the recognition of abilities and entrepreneurship as sources of power more...

The paper investigates optimal financial contracts when investment in pledgeable assets is endogenous and not observable to financiers. In a setting with uncertainty, two inputs with different collateral value and investment unobservability, we show that a firm-bank secured credit contract is...

This paper, prepared for the Handbook of Game Theory, volume 4 (Peyton Young and Shmuel Zamir, editors, Elsevier Press), surveys work on reputations in repeated games of incomplete information.

Parental time with children increases with the education of both the mother and the father. As the education of parents increases, the gap between childcare supplied by mothers relative to that supplied by fathers decreases. A two steps semi-cooperative marital decision model is proposed to...