Between 1959 and 1962, Alvin Scodel, J. Sayer Minas, and colleagues conducted some of the earliest laboratory studies of strategic interaction using non-zero-sum games. Working at the margins of economics in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, they documented a striking pattern: subjects...

The rapid rise of live-streaming e-commerce has fostered a new "content clipping" model, in which secondary creators edit and republish anchors' live-streaming content to promote product sales. While this model can expand market reach and enhance revenue, it also introduces copyright disputes,...

We investigate the dynamics of voluntary cooperation in stochastic social dilemmas. In variants of a repeated four-person prisoner’s dilemma game, we show that cooperation rates are larger and more stable when cooperation affects the probability rather than the size of a damage event. We...

In this article, we examine the coordination effect of oligopolists' multimarket contact with asymmetric cost. We extend a model of infinitely repeated multimarket contact games with "symmetric advantage" in the seminal paper of Bernheim and Whinston (The RAND Journal of Economics 1990; 21(1):...

Zambia is Africa’s second-largest and the world’s ninth-largest copper producer, with mining—particularly copper extraction—serving as a cornerstone of the national economy. In this context, the Government of Zambia published the National Three Million Tonnes Copper Production Strategy...