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Pascal Bégout, and Jésus Ildefonso Diaz

vol. 7, n. 268, March 15, 2020, p. 4029–4058

Jean-François Bonnefon, Edmond Awad, Sohan Dsouza, and Azim Shariff

vol. 117, n. 5, February 2020, pp. 2332–2337

Nicoletta Berardi, and Paul Seabright

vol. 176, n. 3, February 2020, pp. 572–594

This paper investigates an unexplored rationale for joint ownership of a production project. We model projects with autocorrelated productivity shocks as creating an option value of investing over time so that later investments benefit from the information revealed by the realization of earlier...

Edmond Awad, Sydney Levine, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Sohan Dsouza, Joshua Tenenbaum, Azim Shariff, Jean-François Bonnefon, and Iyad Rahwan

vol. 4, n. 2, February 2020, pp. 134–143

When an automated car harms someone, who is blamed by those who hear about it? Here we asked human participants to consider hypothetical cases in which a pedestrian was killed by a car operated under shared control of a primary and a secondary driver and to indicate how blame should be allocated....

Sereeparp Anantavrasilp, Abe De Jong, Douglas V. DeJong, and Ulrich Hege

vol. 47, n. 2, February 2020, pp. 253–292

Caio Almeida, Kim Ardison, and René Garcia

vol. 214, n. 2, February 2020, pp. 349–378

Fabien Gensbittel, and Miquel Oliu-Barton

vol. 10, February 2020, pp. 819–835

Using the duality techniques introduced by De Meyer (Math Oper Res 21:209–236, 1996a, Math Oper Res 21:237–251, 1996b), Rosenberg (Int J Game Theory 27:577–597, 1998) and De Meyer and Marino (Cahiers de la MSE 27, 2005) provided an explicit construction for optimal strategies in repeated games with...

Marcel Boyer

February 2020

Marco Battaglini, and Bård Harstad

vol. 128, n. 2, February 2020, pp. 544–590

In recent decades, democratic countries have negotiated hundreds of international treaties and agreements. This paper analyzes the equilibrium design of treaties negotiated by political incumbents seeking reelections. We show that incumbents are prone to negotiate treaties that are "weak" in that...

Lei XU, Tingting Nian, and Luis Cabral

vol. 66, n. 2, February 2020, pp. 587–604

Many online platforms rely on users to voluntarily provide content. What motivates users to contribute content for free however is not well understood. In this paper, we use a revealed preference approach to show that career concerns play an important role in user contributions to Stack Overflow,...