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Endowment inequality in common pool resource games : an experimental analysis

Milam, Garrett; Monaco, Andrew - In: Games 17 (2026) 1, pp. 1-21

(CPR) games, shedding light on the relationship between inequality and economic decision making. We explore two theoretical …

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All-pay auctions with different forfeits

Kang, Benjamin; Unwin, James - In: Games 17 (2026) 1, pp. 1-14

In an auction, each party bids a certain amount, and the one who bids the highest is the winner. Interestingly, auctions can also be used as models for other real-world systems. In an all-pay auction all parties must pay a forfeit for bidding. In the most commonly studied all-pay auction,...

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Randomized algorithms and neural networks for communication-free multiagent singleton set cover

He, Guanchu; Hill, Colton; Seaton, Joshua H.; Brown, … - In: Games 17 (2026) 1, pp. 1-23

This paper considers how a system designer can program a team of autonomous agents to coordinate with one another such that each agent selects (or covers) an individual resource with the goal that all agents collectively cover the maximum number of resources. Specifically, we study how agents...

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Fair division of indivisible items : envy-freeness vs. efficiency revisited

Brams, Steven J.; Kilgour, D. Marc; Klamler, Christian - In: Games 17 (2026) 1, pp. 1-10

We study conflicts between envy-based fairness and efficiency for allocating indivisible items under additive utilities. We formalize several small, transparent instances showing that standard envy-freeness (EF) or its relaxations EFX and EFX0-i.e., envy-freeness up to any item, where EFX...

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On collusion sustainability and the elasticity of substitution

Escrihuela-Villar, Marc - In: Games 17 (2026) 1, pp. 1-9

We analyze the relationship between collusion sustainability in an infinitely repeated game using trigger strategies and the elasticity of substitution. To this end, we adopt a demand function with constant elasticity of substitution between the differentiated goods. Since our model exhibits a...

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Monetary policy committees, independence, and influence

Colla de Robertis, Esteban - In: Games 17 (2026) 1, pp. 1-23

We develop a model of monetary policy committee decision-making, building on the framework of games played through …

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Communication and standoff

Hafer, Catherine - In: Games 17 (2026) 1, pp. 1-17

This paper examines the potential for pre-play communication to shorten the duration of two-player incomplete-information wars of attrition. If players' types constitute costlessly verifiable information, then all types of players disclose their types, resulting in the war of attrition having...

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Exclusionary contracts and incentives to innovate

Ulsaker, Simen Aardal - In: Games 17 (2026) 1, pp. 1-19

This paper develops a game-theoretic model to study how exclusionary contracts affect firms' incentives to invest in innovation. Several symmetric sellers compete to supply an identical product to a set of buyers, and each seller can invest in R&D to develop a higher-quality version of the...

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Quadratic programming approach for Nash equilibrium computation in multiplayer imperfect-information games

Ganzfried, Sam - In: Games 17 (2026) 1, pp. 1-12

-sum imperfect-information games and exact computation of Nash equilibrium in multiplayer normal-form games. While counterfactual … regret minimization and fictitious play are scalable to large games and have convergence guarantees in two-player zero …-sum games, they do not guarantee convergence to Nash equilibrium in multiplayer games. We present an approach for exact …

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Equal chances or fewer victims? : moral judgments in autonomous vehicle dilemmas

Matros, Alexander; Bilen, Eren; Matros, Leonid - In: Games 17 (2026) 1, pp. 1-14

We examine the moral dilemma of how autonomous vehicles (AVs) should be programmed to act in unavoidable crash scenarios involving trade-offs between saving one life and saving many. We report results from three experimental studies that investigate individuals' preferences over alternative AV...

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