In this paper, the authors continue the pursuit of the self-coordination mechanism as studied in the El Farol Bar problem. However, in addition to efficiency (the optimal use of the public facility), they are also interested in the distribution of the public resources among all agents. Hence,...

While DSGE models have been widely used by central banks for policy analysis, they seem to have been ineffective in calibrating the models for anticipating financial crises. To bring DSGE models closer to real situations, some of researchers have revised the traditional DSGE models. One of the...

Local interactions refer to social and economic phenomena where individuals' choices are influenced by the choices of others who are 'close' to them socially or geographically. This represents a fairly accurate picture of human experience. Furthermore, since local interactions imply particular...