Since January 1, 2005, the Dutch tax litigation comprises an appeals court. Before 2005, it had but one court of instance. That means that now, after a court of first instance has given its verdict in a tax dispute, an unsatisfied party may appeal to a higher instance, where this was impossible...

Social networks, be it on the internet or in real life, facilitate information flows. We model this by giving agents incentives to link with others and receive information through those links. We consider networks where agents have an incentive to confirm the information they receive from...

True pricing has progressed from an abstract notion to a real life phenomenon as a way to make consumers aware of the genuine costs to society of products. Our paper analyzes the impact of true prices on competition. Our model uses a straightforward differentiated Bertrand set-up where consumers...