This paper uses laboratory experiments to study subjects' assessment of uncertainty resulting from strategic and non-strategic decisions other players. Non-strategic events are defined by the colors balls drawn urns, whereas action choice in Stag Hunt (SH) Prisoners' Dilemma (PD) games. We elicit matching probabilities examine if they satisfy law probability including monotonicity additivity. V...

Summary: The first essay extends the belief-based approach for the repeated prisoners’ dilemma with asymmetric private monitoring to approximate full efficiency and to obtain certain folk theorems. The second essay introduces a general probabilistic endowment and inheritance rule for the house allocation problem. The third essay studies the effect of heterogeneous discounting on Pareto frontier...

There is debate about whether the psychopath’s criminal behaviour is a consequence of abnormal personality traits or a symptom of psychopathy. The aim of this study was to examine independent associations between offending behaviour over the lifetime and psychopathy in a representative sample of male and female offenders. A two-stage survey was carried out among prisoners in all prisons in Engl...

Quantum strategies are introduced into evolutionary games. The agents using quantum strategies are regarded as invaders whose fraction generally is 1% of a population in contrast to the 50% defectors. In this paper, the evolution of strategies on networks is investigated in a defector-dominated population, when three networks (Regular Lattice, Newman-Watts small world network, scale-free networ...

By facilitating mutually beneficial transactions in the absence of perfect legal institutions, trust is a crucial ingredient for economic development. We focus on the conceptual connections between imperfect legal institutions, uncertainty and vulnerability, and their consequences on trust, with the goal of understanding the role for a social safety net in economic development. We study a model...

We consider a population initially consisting of cooperators and defectors, who are engaged in a Prisoners’ Dilemma. A knowledgeable mutant is introduced who memorizes other players by experience. We derive a formal model which allows us to describe the growth of the mutant’s knowledge of defectors in a precise way. When meeting known defectors, the mutant is assumed to avoid exploitation by re...