This note proposes a graphical approach useful in game theory. This method consists in representing incentives to move strategically to graphical areas. The method can be used on several occasions we apply it as an example to the model of Bouët (2001).

The implications of assuming that it is commonly known that players consider only admissible best responses are investigated. Within a states-of-the-world model where a state, for each player, determines a startegy set rather than a strategy the concept of fully permissible sets is defined

Incentives to innovate is a central element of innovation theory. In the private-investment model, innovators privately fund innovation and then use intellectual property protection mechanisms to appropriate returns from these investments. In the collective-action model, public subsidy funds...

In German literature, particularly in poetry, an amazing wealth of illustrations for economic contract theory can be found. Signaling, screening, incentive contracts, the winner's curse, and even the prisoner's dilemma within a team are treated by different writers. The respective examples are...