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How Does Democratic Accountability Shape International Cooperation?

Urpelainen, Johannes - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 29 (2012) 1, pp. 28-55

In democratic societies, citizens can hold their government politically accountable for the consequences of international cooperation. Can democratic accountability shape international cooperation under strategic interdependence, and if so, to what effect? I show formally that citizens can endow...

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Modeling the commons as a game with vector payoffs

Lejano, Raul P.; Ingram, Helen - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 24 (2012) 1, pp. 66-89

Since Hardin first formulated the tragedy of the commons, researchers have described various ways that commons problems are solved, all based on the model of individual rationality. Invariably, these institutional solutions involve creating some system of property rights. We formulate an...

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One man, one vote, one time? A model of democratization in the Middle East

Blaydes, Lisa; Lo, James - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 24 (2012) 1, pp. 110-146

The protests associated with the 2011 Arab Spring represent a serious and sustained challenge to autocratic rule in the Middle East. Under what conditions will Arab protest movements translate into a full-fledged â€˜fourth waveâ€™ of democratization? We argue that questions about the...

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Convergent learning algorithms for potential games with unknown noisy rewards

Chapman, Archie C.; Leslie, David S.; Rogers, Alex; … - Business School, University of Sydney - 2011

In this paper, we address the problem of convergence to Nash equilibria in games with rewards that are initially unknown and which must be estimated over time from noisy observations. These games arise in many real-world applications, whenever rewards for actions cannot be prespecified and must...

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Detailing vs. Direct-to-Consumer Advertising in the Prescription Pharmaceutical Industry

Bala, Ram; Bhardwaj, Pradeep - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 1, pp. 148-160

The pharmaceutical industry has always used sales representatives to target physicians (detailing), who are a key link in sales and market share for prescription pharmaceuticals. Since August of 1997, when the Food and Drug Administration eased the restrictions on direct-to-consumer advertising...

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Final-Offer Arbitration

Wittman, Donald - In: Management Science 32 (1986) 12, pp. 1551-1561

In final-offer arbitration the two parties to a dispute submit final offers to an arbitrator. The arbitrator then chooses as the binding solution that offer which is closest to his own view of the appropriate outcome. Because the disputants are imperfectly informed about the arbitrator's...

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Sequential Product Positioning Under Differential Costs

Tyagi, Rajeev K. - In: Management Science 46 (2000) 7, pp. 928-940

This paper examines the product positioning decisions of firms that enter a market sequentially and that have potentially different cost structures. It shows that if the first mover knows the second mover to have a lower production cost, it positions away from the most attractive location in the...

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Conspicuous Consumption and Sophisticated Thinking

Amaldoss, Wilfred; Jain, Sanjay - In: Management Science 51 (2005) 10, pp. 1449-1466

Consumers purchase conspicuous goods to satisfy not only material needs but also social needs such as prestige. In an attempt to meet these social needs, producers of conspicuous goods like cars, perfumes, and watches, highlight the exclusivity of their products. In this paper, we propose a...

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Coalition Formation in a Five-Person Market Game

Rapoport, Amnon; Kahan, James P. - In: Management Science 30 (1984) 3, pp. 326-343

simultaneously. In order to study coalition forming behavior in such games and to test the descriptive power of four major solution …, considerations of sequential formation of coalitions within a coalition structure, the concept of maximal share structure suggested … equal shares, served jointly as the first-order determinants of both the decision of which coalition to form and the …

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Targeted Advertising Strategies on Television

Gal-Or, Esther; Gal-Or, Mordechai; May, Jerrold H.; … - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 5, pp. 713-725

extent of price competition, improving recognition leads to intensified price competition and reduced profitability in the …

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