Unredressed injustices in national and global history raise important normative questions. These questions are highlighted by the growing chorus of voices public academic discourse calling for agents, especially those Global North, to recognize redress major their past, most notably colonialism, chattel slavery, segregation.1 One is justification question: do (some) present-day agents have mora...

This paper studies coalition formation, payoff division and expected payoffs in a ”divide the dollar by majority rule” game with random proposers. A power index is called self-confirming if it can be obtained as an equilibrium of the game using the index itself as probability vector. Unlike the Shapley value and other commonly used power indices, the nucleolus has this property. The proof uses ...

I study a simple global game, in which I relax the assumption that preferences are common knowledge. I show that with higher-order uncertainty regarding preferences, players can at best coordinate on the risk-dominant equilibrium, regardless of whether information about fundamentals is common or private. The example also suggests that the strength of the coordinating effect of public informatio...

Objective: To use principal-components analysis to obtain a shorter and therefore more clinically useful version of the Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ). Subjects: A British sample of 214 chronic back pain patients attending outpatient spinal assessment. Results: A 4-factor solution was discovered that incorporates Catastrophizing, Diversion, Cognitive Coping, and Reinterpreting factors. A...

Neuroeconomics focuses on brain imaging studies mapping neural responses to choice behavior. Economic theory is concerned with choice behavior but it is silent on neural activities. We present a game theoretic model in which players are endowed with an additional structure a simple “nervous system” and interact repeatedly in changing games. The nervous system constrains information processing f...

An equivalent circuit for an annular porous electrode is derived by reinterpreting the differential equations that approximate the distribution of voltage and current in such electrodes. The equivalent circuit is shown to provide useful physical interpretations of the secondary current distributions. Multi-loop circuit techniques are employed to obtain the current distributions within the circu...