This paper investigates whether information about generosity or fairness can be useful in reducing dispute costs and enhancing bargaining efficiency. Subjects were first screened using a dictator game, with the allocations chosen used to separate participants into two types. Mutually anonymous pairs of subjects then bargained, with a dispute cost structure imposed. Sorting with identification r...

Electronic contracting, mostly through software agents, led to an impressive growth in electronic transactions, but also in the number of disputes arising out of these transactions. Paper-based courts are however unable to efficiently deal with this increase in disputes. On the other hand, current Online Dispute Resolution methodologies are impersonal and cold, leaving aside important informati...

The article is devoted to the controversy around painting by Hans Holbein Younger "Christ in tomb" and novel "The Idiot" Fedor Dostoevsky, where this picture central ekphrasis. aim of study was analyze current trends interpretation Holbein's Dostoevsky's novel, their relationship with Christian dogmatics, canonical requirements for depicting image Christ, biblical context, establish existing po...