{"title":"The Implications of Learning on Bidding Behavior in a Repeated First Price Conservation Auction with Targeting","authors":"N. James, Liv Lundberg, E. Sills","doi":"10.1561/102.00000101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1561/102.00000101","url":null,"abstract":"The Implications of Learning on Bidding Behavior in a Repeated First Price Conservation Auction with Targeting","PeriodicalId":191688,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Behavior and the Environment","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114515199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inequality and Peer Punishment in a Common-Pool Resource Experiment","authors":"L. Geest, David C. Kingsley","doi":"10.1561/102.00000099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1561/102.00000099","url":null,"abstract":"7 We test the effect of inequality on peer punishment in a common-pool resource 8 (CPR) experiment with equal endowments (Equal) or unequal endowments (Unequal). 9 Peer punishment reduces extractions in both treatments, but it is more effective in 10 Unequal. Subjects with lower endowments coordinated around an Equal Earnings 11 norm, subjects with higher endowments matched, and peer punishment tightened this 12 coordinate-and-match dynamic. By contrast, there was less coordination in Equal, and 13 as a result, more peer punishment and lower payoffs. 14","PeriodicalId":191688,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Behavior and the Environment","volume":"33 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120864024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Northeast Atlantic Mackerel Crisis","authors":"J. Hougaard, F. Jensen, Aleksandrs Smilgins","doi":"10.1561/102.00000092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1561/102.00000092","url":null,"abstract":": From 2010 and onwards, a crisis have occurred over the distribution of a yearly total allowable catch (TAC) for the mackerel fishery in the Northeast Atlantic Sea. The European Union (the EU), Norway (NO), Iceland (IC) and the Faroe Islands (the FI) are players in this “mackerel crisis”. In the present study, we use game theory in an attempt to rationalize the actual behaviour of these players during the mackerel crisis. We identify the profit of each possible coalition structure (the coalitional values) by using a fisheries economic model, and quantify the coalitional values empirically by statistical estimation of the relevant functional relationships. Based on the statistical estimations, we define a benchmark scenario and conduct a number of sensitivity analyses. To try to rationalize the outcome during the mackerel crisis, we require that a relevant coalition must be internally stable in the sense that no structure has an incentive to split-up. By using the notion of internal stability, we are partly able to rationalize the actual coalition formation during the mackerel crisis.","PeriodicalId":191688,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Behavior and the Environment","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126599118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rational Skeptics: On the Strategic\u0000 Communication of Scientific Data","authors":"Youngseok Park","doi":"10.1561/102.00000089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1561/102.00000089","url":null,"abstract":"I show that a credibility gap is created between the scientist and the government if the preference of the scientist is not perfectly aligned with that of the government. I find a remarkable result that the credibility gap is eliminated and the ex-ante social welfare is maximized if and only if the scientist’s preference is perfectly aligned with that of the government, not with that of the median voter. This is endogenously achieved when the government is allowed to appoint its optimal scientist without election concerns. In the case where the government has election concerns, if the median voter perceives an alarming message from the climate scientist, then even a “right-wing” government must choose an aggressive climate change policy to avoid losing the election. Accordingly, it will prefer to appoint a climate scientist who is unlikely to send an alarming message. Thus the government deliberately creates a credibility gap which may cause a distorted climate change policy in a democracy. Key Words: Climate Change; Cheap-Talk; Elections; SocialWelfare.","PeriodicalId":191688,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Behavior and the Environment","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125763127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}