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3 Persons, 2 Cuts: A Maximin Envy-Free and a Maximally Equitable Cake-Cutting Algorithm 0 0 0 17 5 7 8 46
A Generic Negotiation Game 0 0 0 63 1 5 6 541
A Moving-Knife Solution to the Four-Person Envy-Free Cake-Division Problem 0 0 0 44 5 7 10 225
A Note on Stabilizing Cooperation in the Centipede Game 0 0 0 12 13 15 18 34
A Procedure for Divorce Settlements 0 0 0 99 5 5 9 982
A Simple Bargaining Mechanism That Elicits Truthful Reservation Prices 0 0 1 57 2 6 11 165
A Simple Bargaining Mechanism That Elicits Truthful Reservation Prices 0 0 0 10 4 6 8 83
A note on the inefficiency of bargaining over the price of a share 0 0 0 28 1 1 2 72
APPROVAL VOTING IN PRACTICE 0 0 0 25 2 5 5 266
ARE CRISIS RATIONAL? A GAME-THEORETIC ANALYSIS 0 0 0 20 2 6 8 310
ARMS-CONTROL INSPECTION STRTEGIES THAT INDUCE COMPLIANCE: A GAME-THEORITIC ANALYSIS 0 0 0 10 3 5 5 192
Absorbing Outcomes in 2 x 2 Games 0 0 0 22 5 5 5 69
An Envy-Free Cake Division Algorithm 0 0 0 89 2 4 5 682
An algorithm for the proportional division of indivisible items 0 0 1 24 4 9 13 98
Approval Voting in Practice 0 0 0 13 1 3 4 163
Arbitration Procedures 0 0 0 13 2 3 3 260
Are the Two Houses of Congress Really Equal? 0 0 0 51 5 6 8 726
Backward Induction is not Robust: The Parity Problem and the Uncertainty Problem 0 0 0 138 5 7 8 975
Binding Versus Final-Offer Arbitration: A Combination is Best 0 0 0 28 2 4 5 292
COALITION VOTING 0 0 0 38 4 6 7 378
CONSTRAINED APPROVAL VOTING: A CUSTOM-DESIGNED ELECTION SYSTEM 0 0 0 20 1 2 4 336
CONSTRAINED APPROVAL VOTING: A VOTING SYSTEM TO ELECT A GOVERNING BOARD 0 0 0 21 4 4 9 276
Camp David: Was the Agreement Fair? 0 0 0 91 3 5 5 465
Catch-22 and King-of-the-Mountain Games: Cycling, Frustration, and Power 0 0 0 118 3 6 9 1,748
Catch-Up: A Game in Which the Lead Alternates 0 0 1 2 1 5 9 22
Catch-Up: A Rule That Makes Service Sports More Competitive 0 0 0 19 3 9 11 47
Catch-Up: A Rule that Makes Service Sports More Competitive 0 0 0 10 3 7 11 34
Chairman Paradoxes Under Approval Voting 0 0 0 24 0 3 6 73
Coalition formation in the U.S. Supreme Court: 1969-2009 0 0 0 21 5 8 8 92
Cooperative VS. Non-cooperative Truels: Little Agreement, but Does that Matter? 0 0 0 0 5 6 7 233
Cooperative VS. Non-cooperative Truels: Little Agreement, but Does that Matter? 0 0 0 67 3 5 11 275
Cutting a pie is not a piece of cake 0 0 0 51 6 8 16 173
Cycles of Conflict 0 0 0 65 0 1 1 485
Deductive Prediction of Conflict: The Northern Ireland Case 0 0 0 46 0 4 5 1,804
Deterrence Versus Defense: A Game-Theoretic Model of Star-Wars 0 0 0 54 1 2 5 205
Deterrence and Uncertainty: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 16 5 6 8 67
Deterrence by Variable Retaliation: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 6 4 4 7 40
Divide-and-conquer: A proportional, minimal-envy cake-cutting algorithm 0 0 0 25 2 5 6 254
Dividing the Indivisible: Procedures for Allocating Cabinet Ministries to Political Parties in a Parliamentary System 0 0 0 58 4 7 8 182
Dividing the indivisible: procedures for allocation cabinet ministries to political parties in a parlamentary system 0 1 2 67 8 10 13 246
Does Approval Voting Elect the Lowest Common Denominator? 0 0 0 22 3 6 8 110
Equilibrium Strategies For Final-Offer Arbitration 0 0 0 24 1 2 4 126
Every Normal-Form Game Has a Pareto-Optimal Nonmyopic Equilibrium 0 0 0 24 3 10 12 56
Fair Division Pareto-Optimality Versus Strategic Robustness 0 0 0 18 2 3 3 220
Fair Division and Politics 0 0 0 23 2 8 10 176
Fair Division by Point Allocation 0 0 0 55 2 4 6 251
Fair Division of Indivisible Items between Two People with Identical Preferences: Envy-Freeness, Pareto-Optimality, and Equity 0 0 0 81 2 5 12 1,139
Fair Division: A New Approach to the Spratly Islands Controversy 0 0 0 149 0 3 8 736
Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance Between White and Black 0 0 1 7 6 10 17 45
Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance Between White and Black 0 0 1 8 3 5 9 52
Fairer Shootouts in Soccer: The $m-n$ Rule 0 0 0 10 4 7 11 31
Fallback Bargaining 0 0 0 88 4 8 12 663
Farsightedness in Games: Stabilizing Cooperation in International Conflict 0 0 0 16 1 4 4 33
Final-Offer Arbitration with a Bonus 0 0 0 12 3 3 4 122
Forming Stable Coalitions: The Process Matters 0 0 0 29 3 5 6 156
Game Theory and Emotions 0 0 0 269 2 8 11 1,048
Game Theory and Multilateral Negotiations: The single European Act and the Uruguay Round 0 0 0 84 1 4 8 853
Games Theory and Literature 0 0 0 184 0 3 6 774
How Lies Induced Cooperation in "Golden Balls:" A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 21 2 3 7 62
How Should Voting on Related Propositions be Conducted? 0 0 0 9 3 4 5 241
How democracy resolves conflict in difficult games 0 0 1 122 1 4 10 178
How to divide things fairly 0 0 0 50 4 6 8 143
Inducible Games: Using Tit-for-Tat to Stabilize Outcomes 0 0 0 25 3 6 9 206
Intransigence in Negotiations: The Dynamics of Disagreement 0 0 0 40 1 4 5 311
Kingmakers and Leaders in Coalition Formation 0 0 0 36 0 0 1 60
Kingmakers and Leaders in Coalition Formation 0 0 0 1 1 6 11 47
Kingmakers and leaders in coalition formation 0 0 0 28 3 5 7 97
Making Tennis Fairer: The Grand Tiebreaker 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
Making the Rules of Sports Fairer 0 0 1 56 7 7 13 86
Mathematics and Theology: Game-Theoretic Implications of God’s Omniscience 0 0 0 95 1 3 4 384
Maximin Envy-Free Division of Indivisible Items 0 0 0 58 2 4 8 62
Minimal Winning Coalitions in Weighted-Majority Games 0 0 0 24 3 5 6 305
Minimizing regret when dissolving a partnership 0 0 0 26 2 5 7 117
Modeling Free Choice in Games 0 0 0 41 1 2 6 336
Multi winner Approval Voting: An Apportionment Approach 0 0 1 57 3 16 20 134
Multi-Tier Tournaments: Matching and Scoring Players 0 1 1 18 1 2 5 13
N-Person cake-cutting: there may be no perfect division 0 0 0 46 6 10 11 101
Narrowing the field in elections: the next-two rule 0 0 1 16 2 5 8 58
National Security Games 0 0 0 37 3 6 8 294
New Chairman Paradoxes 0 0 0 13 0 0 1 54
Nonmyoptic Equilibria 0 0 0 17 3 4 6 57
Notes on Arms-Control Verification: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 16 3 5 6 67
OPTIMAL CHEATING AND INSPECTION STRATEGIES UNDER INF 0 0 0 18 2 2 4 409
Old and NewMoving-Knife Schemes 0 0 0 18 4 4 4 165
Optimal Deterrence 0 0 0 17 2 2 5 67
Optimal Resource Allocation in Presidential Primaries 0 0 0 12 2 3 3 54
Polls and the Problem of Strategic Information in Elections 0 0 0 9 3 4 5 33
Presidential Power: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 49 3 9 12 324
Proportional Representation in Variable-Size Legislatures 0 0 0 11 5 6 9 80
Proportional Representation: Broadening the Options 0 0 0 28 2 5 7 222
Putting the Other Side "On Notice" Can Induce Compliance in Arms Control 0 0 0 7 2 4 5 108
Rational De-Escalation 0 0 0 14 2 3 5 307
Resolving Social Issues in a Merger: A Fair-Division Approach 0 0 0 307 7 8 10 1,708
SEQUENTIAL ARBITRATION PROCEDURES 0 0 0 22 5 5 5 391
Satisfaction approval voting 1 2 4 38 7 26 48 264
Sequential Arbitration Procedures 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 407
Stabilizing Cooperative Outcomes in Two-Person Games: Theory and Cases 0 0 0 36 0 4 7 49
Stabilizing Power Sharing 0 0 0 43 1 3 6 127
Stabilizing unstable outcomes in prediction games 0 0 0 19 6 6 9 36
THE BOX PROBLEM: TO SWITCH OR NOT TO SWITCH? 0 0 0 145 4 6 8 834
The Dynamics of the Northern Ireland Condition 0 0 0 19 0 3 3 298
The Excess Method: A Multiwinner Approval Voting Procedure to Allocate Wasted Votes 0 0 1 26 3 5 9 92
The Instability of Power Sharing 0 0 0 37 6 6 8 97
The Paradox of Grading Systems 0 0 0 32 1 5 6 58
The Paradox of Multiple Elections 0 0 0 81 2 9 12 351
The Path to Stable Deterrence 0 0 0 22 3 3 3 136
The Point of No Return: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Crisis Stability 0 0 0 16 2 2 5 186
The Probability of Nuclear War 0 0 0 70 2 6 9 417
The Rationality of Surprise: Unstable Nash Equilibria and the Theory of Moves 0 0 0 103 1 2 5 332
The Responsiveness of Approval Voting: Comments on Saari and Van Newenhizen 0 0 0 34 1 3 4 151
The Truel 0 0 0 98 4 8 10 391
The Verification Problem in Arms Control: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 43 2 3 5 167
The undercut procedure: an algorithm for the envy-free division of indivisible items 0 0 0 44 4 8 12 193
Theory of Moves: Overview and Examples 0 0 0 543 1 3 4 2,139
Threat Escalation and Crisis Stability: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 43 2 5 5 195
Threat Power in Sequential Games 0 0 0 45 4 8 9 142
Three Solutions to Divide the Dollar 0 0 0 139 1 4 5 712
To Mobilize of Not to Mobilize: Catch 22s in International Crises 0 0 0 85 2 9 10 1,060
Two Stage Auctions I: Private-Value Strategies 0 0 0 37 3 3 5 181
Two Stage Auctions II: Common-Value Strategies and the Winner's Curse 0 0 0 48 4 5 6 367
Two-Person Fair Division of Indivisible Items when Envy-Freeness Is Impossible 0 0 0 10 4 7 10 23
Two-Person Fair Division of Indivisible Items: An Efficient, Envy-Free Algorithm 1 1 1 62 4 9 10 201
Two-Person Fair Division of Indivisible Items: Compatible and Incompatible Properties 0 0 0 6 5 7 9 13
Two-Sided Matchings: An Algorithm for Ensuring They Are Minimax and Pareto-Optimal 0 0 0 29 2 4 8 62
Two-person cake-cutting: the optimal number of cuts 0 0 0 49 2 2 6 86
Two-person pie-cutting: The fairest cuts 0 0 0 26 5 6 9 90
UNRAVELING IN EXCHANGE GAMES 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 169
Verifications and Stability: A Game Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 7 2 3 3 36
Voting Procedures 0 0 0 151 5 7 9 745
Voting on Referenda: The Separability Problem and Possible Solutions 0 0 0 58 2 7 11 294
Voting power in the Electoral College: The noncompetitive states count, too 0 0 1 30 3 4 7 85
When does approval voting make the "right choices"? 0 0 0 29 2 4 7 69
When is Size a Liability? Bargaining Power in Minimal Winning Coalitions 0 0 0 31 6 8 9 115
When is it Rational to be Magnanimous in Victory? 0 0 0 23 2 9 11 494
Winding Down if Preemption or Escalation Occurs: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 8 1 2 4 60
Would Ross Perot Have Won the 1992 Presidential election Under Approval Voting? 0 0 0 57 3 5 6 1,959
Yes-No Voting 0 0 0 29 3 3 3 221
Total Working Papers 2 5 20 6,517 388 720 1,041 41,593


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A Generic Negotiation Game 0 0 0 3 2 3 6 27
A Note on Stabilizing Cooperation in the Centipede Game 1 1 1 4 2 7 9 34
A Simple Bargaining Mechanism that Elicits Truthful Reservation Prices 0 0 0 3 3 6 7 21
A minimax procedure for electing committees 0 0 0 28 3 6 9 166
A nail-biting election 0 0 0 22 5 6 6 260
A note on the inefficiency of bidding over the price of a share 0 0 0 8 7 9 11 74
AGREEMENT THROUGH THREATS: THE NORTHERN IRELAND CASE 0 0 0 7 1 3 7 24
An Axiomatic Model of Voting Bodies* 0 0 0 0 4 10 11 16
Another Solution 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 18
Approval Voting 1 6 13 47 7 23 42 150
Approval Voting in Practice 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 214
Approval voting, Condorcet's principle, and runoff elections 0 0 1 4 4 5 8 38
Arms Control and the Atlantic Alliance: Europe Faces Coming Policy Decisions. By Deutsch Karl W.. (New York: John Wileu & Sons, 1967. Pp. 167. $5.95.) 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 9
Backward Induction Is Not Robust: The Parity Problem and the Uncertainty Problem 0 0 1 9 3 5 6 42
Binding Versus Final-Offer Arbitration: A Combination is Best 0 0 1 6 0 7 9 41
CATCH-22 AND KING-OF-THE-MOUNTAIN GAMES 0 0 0 2 3 10 12 27
Cake division with minimal cuts: envy-free procedures for three persons, four persons, and beyond 0 0 0 29 5 7 8 149
Camp David: Was The Agreement Fair? 0 0 0 11 1 2 4 37
Coalition formation on the U.S. Supreme Court: 1969–2009 0 0 0 3 2 3 4 43
Comment on Mayer's “A Note on ‘An Axiomatic Model of Voting Bodies’” 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 7
Comment on The Problem of Strategic Voting under Approval Voting (Vol. 78, December 1984, pp. 952-958) 0 0 0 0 7 7 7 8
Comment on Wagner (Vol. 77, June 1983, pp. 330-346) 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 6
Comment on “Campaign Resource Allocations under the Electoral College” 0 0 0 1 4 6 7 17
Comments on Scharpf's “Games Real Actors could Play†0 0 0 1 3 3 3 18
Competitive Fair Division 1 1 5 235 4 8 14 818
Constrained Approval Voting: A Voting System to Elect a Governing Board 0 1 2 7 4 7 11 25
Cooperative vs non-cooperative truels: little agreement, but does that matter? 0 0 1 44 2 3 8 157
Dead Heat: The 2006 Public Choice Society Election 0 0 0 7 2 8 10 73
Deception in 2 × 2 Games 0 1 2 6 1 4 6 28
Dividing the Indivisible 0 0 0 6 3 5 7 27
Efficacy, power and equity under approval voting 0 0 0 0 1 4 9 19
Efficient Fair Division 0 1 2 8 2 7 8 26
Equilibrium Strategies for Final-Offer Arbitration: There is no Median Convergence 0 1 1 13 2 5 9 57
Every normal-form game has a Pareto-optimal nonmyopic equilibrium 0 0 0 1 4 7 8 18
FAIR DIVISION OF INDIVISIBLE ITEMS 0 0 1 65 4 5 9 188
Fair division of indivisible items between two people with identical preferences: Envy-freeness, Pareto-optimality, and equity 0 0 0 65 9 15 21 281
Fallback Bargaining 0 0 1 6 1 5 9 66
Final-offer arbitration with a bonus 0 0 0 20 2 3 6 108
Forming stable coalitions: The process matters 0 0 0 20 1 2 5 131
GAME THEORY AND EMOTIONS 0 1 1 15 4 7 7 78
Game Theory and International Relations: Preferences, Information and Empirical Evidence. Edited by Pierre Allan and Christian Schmidt. Aldershot, UK: Elgar, 1994. 213p. $74.95 0 0 3 27 2 3 8 77
Game Theory and Literature 0 1 1 427 5 10 13 1,334
Game Theory: Pitfalls and Opportunities in Applying It to International Relations 0 0 1 342 4 10 14 825
Going from theory to practice: the mixed success of approval voting 0 0 0 48 2 7 11 187
Intransigence in Negotiations 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 30
Kingmakers and leaders in coalition formation 0 0 0 5 12 15 18 51
Letter to the Editor—Authors' Rejoinder 0 0 0 0 4 6 6 8
Making Partisan Gerrymandering Fair: One Old and Two New Methods 0 0 1 11 3 7 8 32
Manipulability of voting by sincere truncation of preferences 0 0 1 3 2 4 7 26
Maximin Envy-Free Division of Indivisible Items 0 0 0 5 0 2 2 39
Measuring the Concentration of Power in Political Systems 0 0 1 14 5 9 12 80
Minimal winning coalitions in weighted-majority voting games 0 0 0 0 5 8 11 2,496
Multiwinner approval voting: an apportionment approach 0 0 0 4 6 9 12 40
Narrowing the field in elections: The Next-Two rule 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 32
Newcomb's Problem and Prisoners' Dilemma 0 0 0 7 4 5 6 51
Nonmyopic Equilibria in 2×2 Games 0 0 0 5 3 5 8 26
Optimal Jury Selection: A Game-Theoretic Model for the Exercise of Peremptory Challenges 0 1 2 6 1 7 12 23
Optimal Threats 0 0 1 4 0 0 2 21
Optimal resource allocation in presidential primaries 0 0 0 7 2 4 6 39
Paths to victory in presidential elections: the setup power of noncompetitive states 0 0 0 2 3 7 10 46
Peter C. Fishburn (1936–2021) 0 0 0 1 1 3 6 15
Peter C. Fishburn (1936–2021) 0 0 0 2 4 6 7 28
Proportional Representation 0 1 2 5 0 4 6 43
Proportional pie-cutting 0 0 0 30 4 7 13 159
Putting the Other Side “On Notice†Can Induce Compliance in Arms Control 0 0 0 0 3 8 8 15
Rejoinder to Niemi 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 6
Replies 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 9
Resource Allocations in the 1976 Campaign 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
Response to Rabow 0 0 0 3 1 1 2 16
Response to Randall Stone 0 0 0 1 4 7 7 26
Scheduling of panels by integer programming: Results for the 2005 and 2006 New Orleans meetings 0 0 0 10 3 4 4 64
Single-Peakedness and Disconnected Coalitions 0 0 0 4 1 3 5 32
The 3/2's Rule in Presidential Campaigning* 0 0 1 15 1 6 9 50
The Network Television Game: There May be No Best Schedule 0 0 0 2 0 2 4 7
The Paradox of Vote Trading* 0 1 4 11 6 10 14 42
The Probability of Nuclear War 0 0 1 8 3 7 8 32
The excess method: a multiwinner approval voting procedure to allocate wasted votes 0 0 1 6 4 11 15 34
The normative turn in public choice 0 0 0 25 4 4 5 94
The paradox of grading systems 0 0 0 4 2 2 3 29
The paradox of multiple elections 0 0 3 109 4 4 8 643
The responsiveness of approval voting: Comments on Saari and Van Newenhizen 0 0 1 3 2 2 8 26
The undercut procedure: an algorithm for the envy-free division of indivisible items 0 0 0 10 2 3 4 59
Theory of Moves: Overview and Examples 0 0 0 11 0 0 2 41
Threat Escalation and Crisis Stability: A Game-theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 5 0 3 5 20
Transaction Flows in the International System* 0 0 0 4 4 5 5 18
Two-Person Fair Division of Indivisible Items when Envy-Freeness is Impossible 0 0 0 1 2 2 4 8
Unanimity in the supreme court: A game-theoretic explanation of the decision in the white house tapes case 0 0 0 2 3 8 10 23
When is Size a Liability? 0 0 0 4 3 5 6 23
When is it Rational to be Magnanimous in Victory? 0 0 1 6 5 6 8 22
When to join a coalition, and with how many others, depends on what you expect the outcome to be 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 12
Winding Down if Preemption or Escalation Occurs 0 0 0 0 3 6 6 12
Total Journal Articles 3 17 58 1,907 254 487 694 10,623


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Biblical Games: Game Theory and the Hebrew Bible 0 0 0 0 5 13 23 406
Fair Division 0 0 0 0 1 3 8 129
Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds 0 0 0 0 2 4 5 229
Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 92
Total Books 0 0 0 0 9 23 41 856


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Electing a Single Winner: Approval Voting in Practice, from Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures 0 0 0 58 3 6 8 201
Going from Theory to Practice: The Mixed Success of Approval Voting 0 0 0 0 1 7 14 24
How Democracy Resolves Conflict in Difficult Games 0 0 0 0 2 8 13 24
How to Elect a Representative Committee Using Approval Balloting 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 7
Peter Fishburn 0 0 0 0 3 4 8 32
Satisfaction Approval Voting 0 0 0 0 5 5 15 58
The Instability of Power Sharing 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 5
Voting Systems that Combine Approval and Preference 0 0 0 1 5 6 7 16
Voting procedures 1 2 3 108 9 14 17 419
Voting procedures 2 2 9 449 5 16 47 6,026
Total Chapters 3 4 12 616 35 70 136 6,812
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