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Evolutionary game theory has shown that in environments characterised by a social-dilemma situation punishment may be an adaptive behaviour. Experimental evidence closely corresponds to this finding but yields contradictory results on the cooperation-enhancing effect of punishment if players are...
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A process to provide perfect ownership and direction of businesses to the entire public, via non-profit universities. The process enables a nonprofit university to acquire and administer businesses and other important infrastructures within society in a manner where faculty and students of the...
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A process for a business to exclusively and completely sell its shares to a 501(c)3 charity to transfer full ownership & direction of the business to the entire public. Nonprofit universities are charities well positioned to completely own & operate businesses: to produce and allocate their...
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Costly competitions between economic agents are modeled as contests. Researchers use laboratory experiments to study contests and test comparative static predictions of contest theory. Commonly, researchers find that participants’ efforts are significantly higher than predicted by the standard...
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to further repercussions from agents. In that spirit, they introduced the bargaining set which later was adapted to the … Ellickson et al. (1999) in this regard and refer to the bargaining sets introduced in line with Mas-Colell and Vind as the local … and global bargaining sets in our framework. We provide characterizations of the global bargaining set in terms of the …
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Many economic, political and social environments can be described as contests in which agents exert costly efforts while competing over the distribution of a scarce resource. These environments have been studied using Tullock contests, all-pay auctions and rank-order tournaments. This survey...
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Group contests are ubiquitous. Some examples include warfare between countries, competition between political parties, team-incentives within firms, group sports, and rent-seeking. In order to succeed, members of the same group have incentives to cooperate with each other by expending individual...
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The article provides a theoretical framework of international unions in the form of two two-stage games with discounting and one simultaneous game aimed at generating insights into the conflict between widening and deepening in the integration process. Each country (player) has a preference for...
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litigation net of transaction cost. This calculus yields the normative proposition that settlement is a superior form of dispute …, settlement and litigation are different pricing mechanisms in the absence of market pricing, and are imperfect substitutes … operating under uncertainty. Accordingly, this article rejects the normative axiom that litigation is inferior to settlement, a …
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evaluations of such decision outcomes. In the first essay, we examine the influence of time taken by a bargaining opponent to … respond to an offer on bargainers' perceptions of their own bargaining outcomes. Extending previous research in several … perceptions of bargaining outcomes only when it is related to the bargaining. Third, unlike previous work that examined the effect …
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