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Games, Volume 10, Issue 4

December 2019 - 14 articles

Cover Story: Identifying the root cause of a conflict can be difficult. This is especially true because of the complex way in which information processing can impact beliefs of potential adversaries. We develop and analyze a model of repeated interaction to illustrate how conflict can result when rational agents endogenously process information and update beliefs. When an agent chooses to not initiate an opportunistic attack in a given period, this reveals information to his adversary. Over time, beliefs about the true state of the world converge. Depending upon model specifics, an agent may initiate an attack after an arbitrarily long period of tranquility. When this occurs, it is as if conflict has suddenly arisen without any apparent cause or impetus. Recognizing that conflicts may be initiated due to such information processing is important for both academics and practitioners alike. View this paper.
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Articles (14)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,453 Views
18 Pages

16 December 2019

This paper addresses the role of personality characteristics in decisions on the timing of an action, such as in the context of security and safety choices. Examples of such decisions include when to check log files for intruders and when to monitor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
13,216 Views
17 Pages

8 November 2019

To a large extent, the body of research that looks at individuals’ compliance with the law focuses on the dichotomy between compliance as rule-following and noncompliance as rule-breaking. However, a fascinating case of noncompliance is that wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,375 Views
7 Pages

8 November 2019

A standard result of coalition formation games is that stable coalitions are very small if the coalition plays Nash vis-à-vis the rest of the world and if abatement costs are quadratic. It has been shown that larger coalitions and even the gra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,465 Views
17 Pages

Formation of Stable and Efficient Social Storage Cloud

  • Pramod C. Mane,
  • Nagarajan Krishnamurthy and
  • Kapil Ahuja

1 November 2019

In this paper, we study the formation of endogenous social storage cloud in a dynamic setting, where rational agents build their data backup connections strategically. We propose a degree-distance-based utility model, which is a combination of benefi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,160 Views
23 Pages

Can Behavioral “Nudges” Improve Compliance? The Case of Colombia Social Protection Contributions

  • James Alm,
  • Laura Rosales Cifuentes,
  • Carlos Mauricio Ortiz Niño and
  • Diana Rocha

29 October 2019

The Government of Colombia imposes a variety of taxes that must be paid by individual wage earners, called in their entirety “social protection contributions”. Since 2007 individual payments have been collected using an on-line mechanism....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,487 Views
17 Pages

On the Collective Choice among Models of Social Protection: An Experimental Study

  • Francesco Farina,
  • Stefania Ottone and
  • Ferruccio Ponzano

11 October 2019

A real-effort experiment is conducted in order to detect preferences for one out of three different models of the Welfare State characterized by different tax-and-transfer schemes. We reproduce a small society in the lab where: Subjects are grouped i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,683 Views
29 Pages

11 October 2019

In a laboratory experiment on tax compliance, we model a situation in which high-income taxpayers can leave a tax system that finances a public good. We compare low-income taxpayers’ compliance decisions and equity perceptions across treatments...

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