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Quantum Game Theory and Open Access Publishing

Hanauske, Matthias; Bernius, Steffen; Dugall, Berndt - 2007

The digital revolution of the information age and in particular the sweeping changes of scientific communication brought about by computing and novel communication technology, potentiate global, high grade scientific information for free. The arXiv for example is the leading scientific...

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Fragments on black swan: money, credit and finance in The Arcades Project of Walter Benjamin

Estrada, Fernando - 2010

The main objective of this paper is to present a reading of The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin in the context of the financial crisis, in particular, reflect from a few fragments of Benjamin's work appear to lie around a Black Swan. The recovery of the fragments of The Arcades seems...

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Fragments on the black swan: money, credit and finance in The Arcades Project of Walter Benjamin

Estrada, Fernando - 2010

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Communitarianism, Oppositional Cultures, and Human Capital Contagion: Theory and Evidence from Formal versus Koranic Education

Dev, Pritha; Mberu, Blessing; Pongou, Roland - 2013

We analyze the implications of communitarianism-the tendency of people to organize into separate culturally homogeneous groups-for individual and group inequality in human capital accumulation. We propose a non-cooperative social interactions model where each individual decides how much time to...

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Fidelity Networks and Long-Run Trends in HIV/AIDS Gender Gaps

Pongou, Roland; Serrano, Roberto - 2013

More than half of the HIV/AIDS-infected population today are women. We study a dynamic model of (in)fidelity, which explains the HIV/AIDS gender gap by the configuration of sexual networks. Each individual desires sexual relationships with opposite sex individuals. Two Markov matching processes...

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Beauty, Polygyny, and Fertility: Theory and Evidence

Cahu, Paul; Fall, Falilou; Pongou, Roland - 2014

We propose a simple model of a mating economy in both monogamous and polygynous cultures, and derive implications for how polygyny affects individual and aggregate fertility. We find that an attractive woman is more likely to find a high-status husband. However, when polygyny is allowed,...

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Modeling Security and Cooperation in Wireless Networks Using Game Theory

Kamhoua, Charles A. K. - 2011

cooperation, a community enforcement mechanism was used, whereby selfish nodes that drop packets were punished not only by the … cooperation. This scheme also eliminated the need to infer the private history of other nodes. Moreover, it simplified the …. A range of simulations was carried out that showed improved cooperation between selfish nodes when compared to older …

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Experimental evidence that partner choice is a driving force in the payoff distribution among cooperators or mutualists: the cleaner fish case

Bshary, R.; Grutter, A. S. - 2002

forces influence the payoff distribution between trading partners in Sexual selection, intraspecific cooperation and …

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Cutting a pie is not a piece of cake

Barbanel, Julius B.; Brams, Steven J.; Stromquist, Walter - 2008

Is there a division among n players of a cake using n-1 parallel vertical cuts, or of a pie using n radial cuts, that is envy-free (each player thinks he or she receives a largest piece and so does not envy another player) and undominated (there is no other allocation as good for all players and...

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Cournot-Bertrand competition in a unionized mixed duopoly

Kangsik, Choi - 2008

We investigate a differentiated mixed duopoly in which private and public firms can choose to strategically set prices or quantities by facing a union bargaining process. For the case of a unionized mixed duopoly, only public firm is able to choose a type of contract based on the degree of...

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