“...Keywords: Involuntary exchange; Jungle economy; Jungle equilibria; Pareto-minimal; Power relation We consider the simplest version of a jungle economy a la...”

“...Hobbes’s state of nature is often analyzed in two-person two-action non-cooperative games. By definition, this literature only focuses on duels. Yet, if we...”

“...In both the United States of America and the European Union, Member States are encouraged to prevent young people from starting to smoke by forbidding selling...”

“...On the Ides of March, 44 BC, in the Senate House of Pompey in Rome, Julius Caesar was assassinated by conspirators, the most famous of those being Brutus. Are...”

“...We study an infinite-horizon sequential dynamic game where the players are a government and an international terrorist organization. We provide conditions for...”

“...► We use experimental economics to compare the last two versions of Molière's Tartuffe. ► The penultimate version is not consistent with experimental evidence...”

“...We study a non-convex optimal growth problem with investment enhancing labor. We prove that there exists an optimal growth path, that all optimal paths are...”

“...•We propose a two-country model of the dynamics of legal convergence.•Legal preferences can be endogenous.•We study how non-cooperative interactions can lead...”

“...► In civil (common) law countries, the principle of duty to rescue does (not) apply. ► We examine this difference by taking into account the cost of wrongful...”