represents a complex adaptive process, wherein agents draw upon the activities of multiple actors and their rules to negotiate … demonstrates the incremental and cumulative integration of statutory and socially-embedded rules in facilitating the agents …' negotiation process. It reveals the cunning and adaptive behaviour of the agents to decentralise water resource management. The …

Economic corridors connect economic agents along a defined geography. They provide important connections between …

established through one of the following societal conventions: • A power relation according to which stronger agents are able to … relation over alternatives which limits each agent's choices. • Systematic biases in agents' preferences. These four …

established through one of the following societal conventions: • A power relation according to which stronger agents are able to … relation over alternatives which limits each agent's choices. • Systematic biases in agents' preferences. These four …

During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations … reduce the performance of agents or their compliance with rules. In addition, these motives may generate very powerful …

We develop and estimate a model of dynamic interactions in which commitment is limited and contracts are incomplete to … each other through both formal contracts and informal agreements, that is, self-enforcing agreements specifying voluntary … to self-enforcement bind with positive probability and formal contracts are used to reduce this probability. …

enforcement behavior in a market with incomplete contracts and repeated interactions. Dismissal barriers are shown to have a …

pure-strategy pro.les in which the agent.s behavior in each relationship is Markov, i.e., it depends only on payoþ …-relevant information such as the agent.s type and the decisions he is inducing with the other principals). We then illustrate how these …