We model interhousehold transfers between nomadic livestock herders as the statedependent consequence of individuals’ strategic interdependence resulting from the existence of multiple, opposing externalities. A public good security externality among individuals sharing a social (e.g., ethnic) identity in a potentially hostile environment creates incentives to band together. Self-interested int...

This paper evaluates with numbers the respective merits of two competing notions of coalition stability in the standard global public goods model as customarily applied to the climate change problem. To this effect it uses an the integrated assessment CWS model. After a reminder of the two game theoretical stability notions involved – namely, core-stability and internal-external stability – and...

Kadison and Kastler introduced a metric on the set of all C∗-algebras on a fixed Hilbert space. In this paper structural properties of C∗-algebras which are close in this metric are examined. Our main result is that the property of having a positive answer to Kadison’s similarity problem transfers to close C∗-algebras. In establishing this result we answer questions about closeness of commutant...

Executive Summary Businesses engaging in outsourcing of professional service activities to organizations in foreign countries have focused primarily on the issues of cost and the number of jobs affected. However, significant transfers of intangibles occur in many service-based offshoring arrangement as well. Some of these intangibles are considered intellectual property (IP). The transfer of IP...

This paper generalizes the idea of “multiple resonance networks” to energy transfers between inductors and between capacitors and inductors, extending the theory about this class of LC lossless circuits. The networks discussed have the property of transferring all the energy initially stored in a particular capacitor or inductor in an LC network to another element in the network, through a line...

In this article using the inverse Laplace transform, we show analytical solutions for the generalized mass transfers with (and without) a chemical reaction. These transfers have been expressed as the Couette flow with the fractional derivative of the Caputo sense. Also, using the Hankel contour for the Bromwich's integral, the solutions are given in terms of the generalized Airy functions.