Discussion Paper Series

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2007: “Ingroup Love" and “Outgroup Hate" as Motives for Individual Participation in Intergroup Conflict: A New Game Paradigm

Nir Halevy, Gary Bornstein and Lilach Sagiv

2007: On Statistical Inference Under Selection Bias

Micha Mandel and Yosef Rinott

2007: Less Crime, More (Vulnerable) Victims: Game Theory and the Distributional Effects of Criminal Sanctions

Ehud Guttel and Barak Medina

2007: The Strategic Value of Recall

Ron Peretz

2007: Beat the Mean: Better the Average

Abba M. Krieger, Moshe Pollak and Ester Samuel-Cahn

2007: The Signaling Function of an Extra-floral Display: What Selects for Signal Development?

Tamar Keasar, Adi Sadeh and Avi Shmida

2007: The (Hidden) Risk of Opportunistic Precautions

Ehud Guttel

2007: Protecting the Domestic Market: Industrial Policy and Strategic Firm Behaviour

Jens Metge

2007: Approximability and Inapproximability of Dodgson and Young Elections

Ariel D. Procaccia, Michal Feldmany and Jeffrey S. Rosenschein

2007: Distribution of Resources in a Competitive Environment

Judith Avrahami and Yaakov Kareev

2007: On Sequential Estimation and Prediction for Discrete Time Series

Gusztav Morvav and Benjamin Weiss

2007: Implementation by Mediated Equilibrium

Bezalel Peleg and Ariel D. Procaccia

2007: On the Preference for Full-Coverage Policies: Why do People buy too much Insurance?

Zur Shapira and Itzhak Venezia

2007: Uncoupled Automata and Pure Nash Equilibria

Yakov Babichenko

2007: Variability in Nectar Production and Yield, and their Relation to Pollinator Visits, in a Mediterranean Shrub

Tamar Keasar, Adi Sadeh and Avi Shmida

2007: Individual Differences in Allocation of Funds in the Dictator Game Associated with Length of the Arginine Vasopressin 1a Receptor (AVPR1a) RS3 Promoter-region and Correlation between RS3 Length and Hippocampal mRNA

Ariel Knafo, Salomon Israel, Ariel Darvasi, Rachel Bachner-Melman, Florina Uzefovsky, Lior Cohen, Esti Feldman, Elad Lerer, Efrat Laiba, Yael Raz, Lubov Nemanov, Inga Gritsenko, Christian Dina, Galila Agam, Brian Dean, Gary Bornstein and Richard P. Ebstein

2007: Absorbing Games with Compact Action Spaces

Jean-François Mertens, Abraham Neyman and Dinah Rosenberg

2007: Expected Prediction Accuracy and the Usefulness of Contingencies

Yaakov Kareev, Klaus Fiedler and Judith Avrahami

2007: Trade with Heterogeneous Beliefs

Elchanan Ben-Porath

2007: An Operational Measure of Riskiness

Dean P. Foster and Sergiu Hart

2007: Five Questions on Game Theory

Sergiu Hart

2007: Computing an Optimal Contract in Simple Technologies

Yuval Emek and Michal Feldman

2007: Mediators Enable Truthful Voting

Bezalel Peleg and Ariel D. Procaccia

2007: Loss Aversion and Status-Quo Label Bias

Avital Moshinsky and Maya Bar-Hillel

2007: Difficult Choices: To Agonize or not to Agonize?

Edna Ullmann-Margalit

2007: Better-Reply Strategies with Bounded Recall

Andriy Zapechelnyuk

2007: Predicting World Cup results: Do goals seem more likely when they pay off?

Maya Bar-Hillel, David V. Budescu and Moty Amar

2007: Quantic Superpositions and the Geometry of Complex Hilbert Spaces

Daniel Lehmann

2007: An Economic Index of Riskiness

Robert Aumann and Roberto Serrano

2007: Evolutionarily Stable Strategies of Random Games, and the Vertices of Random Polygons

Sergiu Hart, Yosef Rinott and Benjamin Weiss

2007: Bayesian Decision Theory and the Representation of Beliefs

Edi Karni

2007: A Classification of Games by Player Type

Gary Bornstein

2007: A Presentation of Quantum Logic Based on an and then Connective

Daniel Lehmann

2007: Simpson’s Paradox for the Cox Model

Clelia Di Serio, Yosef Rinott and Marco Scarsini

2006: Games in the Nervous System: The Game Motoneurons Play

Irit Nowik, Idan Segev and Shmuel Zamir

2006: Vertical Orientation and Color Contrast and Choices by Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris L.)

Rachel Arnon, Tamar Keasar, Dan Cohen and Avi Shmida

2006: Honesty of Signaling and Pollinator Attraction: The Case of Flag-Like Bracts

Tamar Keasar, Gad Pollak, Rachel Arnon, Dan Cohen and Avi Shmida

2006: Rationalizable Expectations

Elchanan Ben-Porath and Aviad Heifetz

2006: Stochastic Dynamics for the Matching Pennies Game

Ziv Gorodeisky

2006: Choosing Between Adaptive Agents: Some Unexpected Implications of Level of Scrutiny

Yaakov Kareev and Judith Avrahami

2006: Complexity and Effective Prediction

Abraham Neyman and Joel Spencer

2006: Discrete Colonel Blotto and General Lotto Games

Sergiu Hart

2006: Asymmetric Auctions: Analytic Solutions to the General Uniform Case

Todd Kaplan and Shmuel Zamir

2006: Performance Sampling and Bimodal Duration Dependence

Jerker Denrell and Zur Shapira

2006: Optimal Ties in Contests

Maya Eden

2006: Differentiated Annuities in a Pooling Equilibrium

Eytan Sheshinski

2006: Optimum Commodity Taxation in Pooling Equilibria

Eytan Sheshinski

2006: Family Fairness

Edna Ullmann-Margalit

2006: Public Goods and Budget Deficit

Abraham Neyman and Tim Russo

2006: Bargaining with a Bureaucrat

Yair Tauman and Andriy Zapechelnyuk

2006: Optimal Mechanisms for an Auction Mediator

Alexander Matros and Andriy Zapechelnyuk

2006: Decision Framing and Support for Concessions in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Ifat Maoz, Ilan Yaniv and Naama Ivri

2006: The Benefit of Additional Opinions

Ilan Yaniv

2006: Shapley Value

Sergiu Hart

2006: Entropy is the Only Finitely Observable Invariant

Donald Ornstein and Benjamin Weiss

2006: Science, Beliefs and Knowledge: A Personal Reflection on Robert J. Aumann’s Approach

Gil Kalai

2006: The Communication Complexity of Uncoupled Nash Equilibrium Procedures

Sergiu Hart and Yishay Mansour

2006: The Perils of Betting to Win: Aspiration and Survival in Jeopardy! Tournament of the Champions

Elizabeth Boyle and Zur Shapira

2006: Robert Aumann's Game and Economic Theory

Sergiu Hart

2006: Aspiration and Survival in “Jeopardy!”

Elizabeth Boyle and Zur Shapira

2006: Lexicographic Composition of Simple Games

Barry O'Neill and Bezalel Peleg

2006: Tournaments with Midterm Reviews

Alex Gershkov and Motty Perry