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Bounding Rationality by Discounting Time [PDF]
, 2009 Consider a game where Alice generates an integer and Bob wins if he can factor that integer. Traditional game theory tells us that Bob will always win this game even though in practice Alice will win given our usual assumptions about the hardness of ...
Fortnow, Lance, Santhanam, Rahul
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Optimal energy management of water networks under quality conditions
International Transactions in Operational Research, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 926-951, March 2026.Abstract In the context of sustainability, which has become fundamental today, we aim to optimize (reduce) the energy consumption due to the use of pumps that bring water from all the different reservoirs to the nodes of the distribution network. The proposed model allows us, thanks to the use of smart meters and new 5G technologies, to determine the ...
Gabriella Colajanni +2 more
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The Manchester School, Volume 94, Issue 2, Page 234-248, March 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines endogenous choices of competition strategies in a vertically related mixed market in which an integrated public firm and a downstream firm, subject to forward passive ownership (FPO) by an input supplier, may engage in R&D investment.
Lili Xu, Yidan Zhang, Sang‐Ho Lee
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Hotelling tax competition [PDF]
, 2003 This paper shows how competition among governments for mobile firms can bring about excessive differentiation in levels of taxation and public good provision.
Wooders, Myrna Holtz, Zissimos, Ben
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After‐Sales Services Coordination Contracts in Platforms With Integration Mode Operations
Naval Research Logistics (NRL), Volume 73, Issue 1, Page 3-21, February 2026.ABSTRACT In service operations, there is an emerging integration mode between platforms, such as Gaode‐Maps DiDi‐Chuxing. In this mode of operation, consumers order on an integrated platform (such as Gaode‐Maps), but accept services from a professional platform (such as DiDi‐Chuxing) or an offline integrator (such as a taxi company).
Weihua Liu +3 more
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Mechanisms for Belief Elicitation Without Ground Truth
Journal of Economic Surveys, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 505-527, February 2026.ABSTRACT This review article examines the challenge of eliciting truthful information from multiple individuals when such information cannot be verified, a problem known as “information elicitation without verification.” This article reviews over 25 mechanisms designed to incentivize truth‐telling in such scenarios and their effectiveness in empirical ...
Niklas Valentin Lehmann
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Motivation in All‐Pay Contests
Journal of Public Economic Theory, Volume 28, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT This paper studies how agents with monetary and non‐monetary motivation interact strategically in competitions. Examining the question under an all‐pay contest framework, we show that there do not exist pure‐strategy equilibria when the competing agents share the same motivation. When agents with different motivation compete against each other,
Yung‐Shiang Jasmine Yang
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On the Adjudication of Conflicting Claims: An Experimental Study [PDF]
This paper reports an experimental study on three well-known solutions for problems of adjudicating conflicting claims: the constrained equal awards, the proportional, and the constrained equal losses rules.
Carmen Herrero +2 more
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Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 17-23, February 2026.ABSTRACT This article proposes that wars are fought to bring about and monitor mutual reductions of overinvestment in broadly defined military preparedness. If two potential combatants are overinvested in military preparedness, it is in their individual interest to scale down in order to use their resources in politically more desirable ways.
Mats Ekman
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The Analysis of the Behavior of Generators in the Two-Level Market Model of Functioning of the EPS
Известия Иркутского государственного университета: Серия "Математика", 2016 Electricity market model of interaction between producers (Generation Companies – GC) and System Operator (SO) is considered. We analyze the situation when power producers try to increase their profit distorting their technical parameters.
N. Dresvyanskaya
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