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"One of the successes in contemporary social science is the development and proliferation of game theory. For a wide … range of phenomena, game theory produces enormous insight into the strategic interaction of individuals. Its greatest power …, information aggregation or when confronting large-scale social dilemmas. However, as Ostrom (1998) reminds us, game theory also …
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The seller posted-price procedure is probably the most common method for making transactions in modern economies. We analyze the performance of posted pricing for transactions having significant common-value elements. In a model of two-sided private information, we characterize the fully...
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Do military alliances foster aggressive behavior in allies to the point of undermining the security goal of the alliance? Like others, we find that alliance commitments may cause moral hazard because allies do not fully internalize the costs of actions that can lead to war. But unlike others, we...
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Despite many applications of prospect theory's concepts to explain political and strategic phenomena, formal analyses … of strategic problems using prospect theory are rare. Using Fearon's model of bargaining, Tversky and Kahneman's value … expected value and prospect theory when applied to strategic interaction. Critically important to this demonstration is an …
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Suppose two parties have to share a surplus of random size.Each of the two can either commit to a demand prior to the realization of the surplus - as in the Nash demand game with noise - or remain silent and wait until the surplus was publicly observed.Adding the strategy to wait to the noisy...
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rejected by the data.The data are better explained by either equity theory (equal splits) or by a game theoretic model where …
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