In this paper, we lay the first building blocks of a positive theory of nation formation where national choices consist of the size and location of a public good. Individuals differ both in income and in their preferences for the public good location. Public expenditures are financed either by a...

The present goal and effort of this thesis is part of a larger forthcoming investigation of the reciprocal influence between architecture and computer games fields. Given the fact that few analytical research investigations have been done on the structure of spatiality in computer games, this...

Two players are endowed with resources for setting up N locations on K identical circles, with N K ≥ 1. The players alternately choose these locations (possibly in batches of more than one in each round) in order to secure the area closer to their locations than that of their rival's. They...