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Most of the land reforms of recent decades have followed an approach of “formalization and capitalization” of individual land titles (de Soto 2000). However, within the privatization agenda, benefits of unimproved land (such as land rents and value capture) are reaped privately by well-organized actors, whereas the costs of valorization (e.g., infrastructure) or opportunity costs of land use ch...

In the realm of information security, lack of information about other users’ incentives in a network can lead to inefficient security choices and reductions in individuals’ payoffs. We propose, contrast and compare three metrics for measuring the price of uncertainty due to the departure from the payoffoptimal security outcomes under complete information. Per the analogy with other efficiency m...

Worker sterility is a defining characteristic of eusociality. The existence of the sterile worker caste remains a fundamental question for evolutionary biology as it requires the existence of genes that reduce personal reproduction. Currently, little is known about the proximate mechanisms underpinning worker sterility. Studies into a mutant "anarchistic" strain (in which workers can activate t...

Network creation games investigate complex networks from a game-theoretic point of view. Based on the original model by Fabrikant et al. [PODC’03] many variants have been introduced. However, almost all versions have the drawback that edges are treated uniformly, i.e. every edge has the same cost and that this common parameter heavily influences the outcomes and the analysis of these games. We ...

Strong Nash equilibria and Pareto-optimal Nash equilibria are natural and important strengthenings of the Nash equilibrium concept. We study these stronger notions of equilibrium in congestion games, focusing on the relationships between the price of anarchy for these equilibria and that for standard Nash equilibria (which is well understood). For symmetric congestion games with polynomial or e...

We study a novel variation of network creation games in which the players (vertices) form a graph by building undirected edges to each other with the goal of reducing their costs of using the network. The model we introduce assumes that a minimal set of nodes with high reachability from others are handed the responsibility of routing the traffic alongside the network, and thus these nodes would...