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When is an Antitrust Authority not Aggressive Enough in Fighting Cartels?∗†

If an antitrust authority chooses an enforcement policy to maximize the number of successfully prosecuted cartels, when does that policy minimize the number of cartels that form? When the detection and prosecution of cartels is inherently difficult, we find that an antitrust authority’s policy minimizes the number of cartels, as is socially desirable. But when the detection and prosecution of c...

Institutional Sources of Legitimate Authority : An Experimental

Unelected officials with coercive powers (e.g., police, prosecutors, bureaucrats) vary markedly in the extent to which citizens view their actions as legitimate. We explore the institutional determinants of legitimate authority in the context of a public goods laboratory experiment. In the experiment, an “authority” can target one “citizen” for punishment following citizen contribution choices....

Conflict Management with an Authority/Deniability Model

When a reasoning system encounters a contradiction like p&q=>false, it may try to eliminate it by retracting some belief that supports either p or q. This paper addresses the issue of how to determine which of the possible supporting beliefs to retract. The problem is studied in the context of a heterogenous distributed environment in which we can not make assumptions about how agents derive th...

The "Authority”of an Agent Definition

An authority for crisis coordination and accountability.