A dynamic contracting model turns future assignments and career opportunities into performance-contingent rewards when cash compensation cannot do the job alone.
Large Sender Pools Require Punishing Biased Consensus
An incentive-compatibility-in-the-large characterization turns a high-dimensional reporting problem into a one-dimensional acceptance rule with deliberate surplus burning.
LLM prompts encoding risk aversion, strategic sophistication, and trust reproduce aggregate choices across ten economic game roles and transfer to held-out games.
Silent War of Attrition Maximizes Targeted-Loss Exposure
A linear-program dual shows that assigning revenue-equivalent payments to losing states reaches the highest stress-test exposure for every bidder count $n \geq 2$.
Expectiles Reframe Disappointment Aversion in Savage Choice
New axioms connect Gul’s model to asymmetric least squares, yielding explicit representations, elicitation formulas, and temporal-difference learning foundations.
Cosine Similarity Measures Agreement in Signal Interpretation
A cone-inclusion order over pairs of subjective models yields a prior-independent comparison and uniquely selects cosine similarity under rotation invariance.
