Abstract Blending in with others is a possible self-serving motivation when people participate in cooperative situations. We use this motivation to formulate a corresponding fairness principle, combine it with rather weak standard axioms from cooperative game theory, and show that it leads to...

Law enforcement officers are allowed to exercise a significant amount of street-level discretion in a variety of ways. In this paper, we focus on a particular prominent kind of discretionary behavior by traffic officers when issuing speeding tickets, speed discounting. Officers partially forgive...