Search Results - subject:"prisoners€™ dilemma"

Lawyers as Agents of the Devil in a Prisoner's Dilemma Game

Ashenfelter, Orley; Bloom, David E.; Dahl, Gordon B. - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2013

Do the parties in a typical dispute face incentives similar to those in the classic prisoner’s dilemma game? In this paper, we explore whether the costs and benefits of legal representation are such that each party seeks legal representation in the hope of exploiting the other party, while...

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Pitfalls in Spatial Modelling of Ethnocentrism: A Simulation Analysis of the Model of Hammond and Axelrod

Jansson, Fredrik - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 16 (2013) 3, pp. 2-2

Ethnocentrism refers to the tendency to behave differently towards strangers based only on whether they belong to the ingroup or the outgroup. It is a widespread phenomenon that can be triggered by arbitrary cues, but the origins of which is not clearly understood. In a recent simulation model...

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External Pressure on Alliances: What Does the Prisoners’ Dilemma Reveal?

Binner, Jane M.; Fletcher, Leslie R.; Kolokoltsov, Vassili - In: Games 4 (2013) 4, pp. 754-775

Prompted by a real-life observation in the UK retail market, a two-player Prisoners’ Dilemma model of an alliance … become a Nash equilibrium for the two-player Prisoners’ Dilemma, weak or asymmetric pressure that plays on the partners … between two firms is adapted to include the response of a rival firm, resulting in a version of a three-player Prisoners …

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