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3 Persons, 2 Cuts: A Maximin Envy-Free and a Maximally Equitable Cake-Cutting Algorithm 0 0 0 17 1 2 3 41
A Generic Negotiation Game 0 0 0 63 1 4 5 540
A Moving-Knife Solution to the Four-Person Envy-Free Cake-Division Problem 0 0 0 44 1 3 5 220
A Note on Stabilizing Cooperation in the Centipede Game 0 0 0 12 1 3 5 21
A Procedure for Divorce Settlements 0 0 0 99 0 2 4 977
A Simple Bargaining Mechanism That Elicits Truthful Reservation Prices 0 0 1 57 4 5 9 163
A Simple Bargaining Mechanism That Elicits Truthful Reservation Prices 0 0 0 10 2 2 4 79
A note on the inefficiency of bargaining over the price of a share 0 0 0 28 0 1 1 71
APPROVAL VOTING IN PRACTICE 0 0 0 25 2 3 4 264
ARE CRISIS RATIONAL? A GAME-THEORETIC ANALYSIS 0 0 0 20 3 5 6 308
ARMS-CONTROL INSPECTION STRTEGIES THAT INDUCE COMPLIANCE: A GAME-THEORITIC ANALYSIS 0 0 0 10 2 2 2 189
Absorbing Outcomes in 2 x 2 Games 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 64
An Envy-Free Cake Division Algorithm 0 0 0 89 2 2 3 680
An algorithm for the proportional division of indivisible items 0 1 1 24 1 7 9 94
Approval Voting in Practice 0 0 0 13 1 2 3 162
Arbitration Procedures 0 0 0 13 1 1 1 258
Are the Two Houses of Congress Really Equal? 0 0 0 51 1 2 3 721
Backward Induction is not Robust: The Parity Problem and the Uncertainty Problem 0 0 0 138 1 2 3 970
Binding Versus Final-Offer Arbitration: A Combination is Best 0 0 0 28 2 3 3 290
COALITION VOTING 0 0 0 38 1 2 3 374
CONSTRAINED APPROVAL VOTING: A CUSTOM-DESIGNED ELECTION SYSTEM 0 0 0 20 1 2 3 335
CONSTRAINED APPROVAL VOTING: A VOTING SYSTEM TO ELECT A GOVERNING BOARD 0 0 0 21 0 1 5 272
Camp David: Was the Agreement Fair? 0 0 0 91 1 2 3 462
Catch-22 and King-of-the-Mountain Games: Cycling, Frustration, and Power 0 0 0 118 2 4 6 1,745
Catch-Up: A Game in Which the Lead Alternates 0 0 1 2 3 5 8 21
Catch-Up: A Rule That Makes Service Sports More Competitive 0 0 0 19 3 7 8 44
Catch-Up: A Rule that Makes Service Sports More Competitive 0 0 0 10 4 4 8 31
Chairman Paradoxes Under Approval Voting 0 0 0 24 2 3 6 73
Coalition formation in the U.S. Supreme Court: 1969-2009 0 0 0 21 2 3 3 87
Cooperative VS. Non-cooperative Truels: Little Agreement, but Does that Matter? 0 0 0 67 0 4 8 272
Cooperative VS. Non-cooperative Truels: Little Agreement, but Does that Matter? 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 228
Cutting a pie is not a piece of cake 0 0 0 51 2 2 10 167
Cycles of Conflict 0 0 0 65 1 1 1 485
Deductive Prediction of Conflict: The Northern Ireland Case 0 0 0 46 2 4 5 1,804
Deterrence Versus Defense: A Game-Theoretic Model of Star-Wars 0 0 0 54 1 4 4 204
Deterrence and Uncertainty: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 16 0 1 4 62
Deterrence by Variable Retaliation: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 6 0 2 3 36
Divide-and-conquer: A proportional, minimal-envy cake-cutting algorithm 0 0 0 25 2 3 4 252
Dividing the Indivisible: Procedures for Allocating Cabinet Ministries to Political Parties in a Parliamentary System 0 0 0 58 2 3 4 178
Dividing the indivisible: procedures for allocation cabinet ministries to political parties in a parlamentary system 1 1 2 67 2 2 5 238
Does Approval Voting Elect the Lowest Common Denominator? 0 0 0 22 1 4 5 107
Equilibrium Strategies For Final-Offer Arbitration 0 0 0 24 1 2 3 125
Every Normal-Form Game Has a Pareto-Optimal Nonmyopic Equilibrium 0 0 0 24 6 8 9 53
Fair Division Pareto-Optimality Versus Strategic Robustness 0 0 0 18 1 1 1 218
Fair Division and Politics 0 0 0 23 3 6 8 174
Fair Division by Point Allocation 0 0 0 55 1 2 4 249
Fair Division of Indivisible Items between Two People with Identical Preferences: Envy-Freeness, Pareto-Optimality, and Equity 0 0 0 81 3 3 10 1,137
Fair Division: A New Approach to the Spratly Islands Controversy 0 0 0 149 3 4 8 736
Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance Between White and Black 0 0 1 7 4 5 12 39
Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance Between White and Black 0 1 1 8 1 5 6 49
Fairer Shootouts in Soccer: The $m-n$ Rule 0 0 0 10 2 6 7 27
Fallback Bargaining 0 0 0 88 1 6 8 659
Farsightedness in Games: Stabilizing Cooperation in International Conflict 0 0 0 16 2 3 3 32
Final-Offer Arbitration with a Bonus 0 0 0 12 0 1 1 119
Forming Stable Coalitions: The Process Matters 0 0 0 29 0 2 3 153
Game Theory and Emotions 0 0 0 269 2 8 9 1,046
Game Theory and Multilateral Negotiations: The single European Act and the Uruguay Round 0 0 0 84 3 3 7 852
Games Theory and Literature 0 0 0 184 3 4 6 774
How Lies Induced Cooperation in "Golden Balls:" A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 21 1 4 5 60
How Should Voting on Related Propositions be Conducted? 0 0 0 9 0 2 2 238
How democracy resolves conflict in difficult games 0 0 1 122 3 5 9 177
How to divide things fairly 0 0 0 50 2 2 4 139
Inducible Games: Using Tit-for-Tat to Stabilize Outcomes 0 0 0 25 2 4 6 203
Intransigence in Negotiations: The Dynamics of Disagreement 0 0 0 40 3 4 4 310
Kingmakers and Leaders in Coalition Formation 0 0 0 36 0 0 1 60
Kingmakers and Leaders in Coalition Formation 0 0 0 1 4 6 10 46
Kingmakers and leaders in coalition formation 0 0 0 28 2 2 4 94
Making Tennis Fairer: The Grand Tiebreaker 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
Making the Rules of Sports Fairer 0 0 1 56 0 0 7 79
Mathematics and Theology: Game-Theoretic Implications of God’s Omniscience 0 0 0 95 0 3 3 383
Maximin Envy-Free Division of Indivisible Items 0 0 0 58 2 3 7 60
Minimal Winning Coalitions in Weighted-Majority Games 0 0 0 24 1 2 3 302
Minimizing regret when dissolving a partnership 0 0 0 26 3 5 5 115
Modeling Free Choice in Games 0 0 0 41 1 2 5 335
Multi winner Approval Voting: An Apportionment Approach 0 1 1 57 3 14 18 131
Multi-Tier Tournaments: Matching and Scoring Players 1 1 1 18 1 2 5 12
N-Person cake-cutting: there may be no perfect division 0 0 0 46 4 5 5 95
Narrowing the field in elections: the next-two rule 0 0 1 16 3 3 6 56
National Security Games 0 0 0 37 2 3 5 291
New Chairman Paradoxes 0 0 0 13 0 0 1 54
Nonmyoptic Equilibria 0 0 0 17 1 1 3 54
Notes on Arms-Control Verification: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 16 1 2 3 64
OPTIMAL CHEATING AND INSPECTION STRATEGIES UNDER INF 0 0 0 18 0 2 2 407
Old and NewMoving-Knife Schemes 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 161
Optimal Deterrence 0 0 0 17 0 2 3 65
Optimal Resource Allocation in Presidential Primaries 0 0 0 12 0 1 1 52
Polls and the Problem of Strategic Information in Elections 0 0 0 9 1 2 3 30
Presidential Power: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 49 6 8 9 321
Proportional Representation in Variable-Size Legislatures 0 0 0 11 1 2 4 75
Proportional Representation: Broadening the Options 0 0 0 28 1 3 5 220
Putting the Other Side "On Notice" Can Induce Compliance in Arms Control 0 0 0 7 0 2 3 106
Rational De-Escalation 0 0 0 14 0 1 3 305
Resolving Social Issues in a Merger: A Fair-Division Approach 0 0 0 307 1 2 3 1,701
SEQUENTIAL ARBITRATION PROCEDURES 0 0 0 22 0 0 1 386
Satisfaction approval voting 0 1 4 37 9 21 43 257
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 3 4 7 49
Stabilizing Power Sharing 0 0 0 43 1 2 5 126
Stabilizing unstable outcomes in prediction games 0 0 0 19 0 0 4 30
THE BOX PROBLEM: TO SWITCH OR NOT TO SWITCH? 0 0 0 145 0 2 4 830
The Dynamics of the Northern Ireland Condition 0 0 0 19 1 3 3 298
The Excess Method: A Multiwinner Approval Voting Procedure to Allocate Wasted Votes 0 1 1 26 1 3 7 89
The Instability of Power Sharing 0 0 0 37 0 1 2 91
The Paradox of Grading Systems 0 0 0 32 3 4 6 57
The Paradox of Multiple Elections 0 0 0 81 5 7 10 349
The Path to Stable Deterrence 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 133
The Point of No Return: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Crisis Stability 0 0 0 16 0 2 3 184
The Probability of Nuclear War 0 0 0 70 4 5 7 415
The Rationality of Surprise: Unstable Nash Equilibria and the Theory of Moves 0 0 0 103 1 3 4 331
The Responsiveness of Approval Voting: Comments on Saari and Van Newenhizen 0 0 0 34 0 3 3 150
The Truel 0 0 0 98 2 4 6 387
The Verification Problem in Arms Control: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 43 1 2 3 165
The undercut procedure: an algorithm for the envy-free division of indivisible items 0 0 0 44 1 4 9 189
Theory of Moves: Overview and Examples 0 0 0 543 2 3 3 2,138
Threat Escalation and Crisis Stability: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 43 2 3 3 193
Threat Power in Sequential Games 0 0 0 45 1 4 5 138
Three Solutions to Divide the Dollar 0 0 0 139 1 3 4 711
To Mobilize of Not to Mobilize: Catch 22s in International Crises 0 0 0 85 4 8 8 1,058
Two Stage Auctions I: Private-Value Strategies 0 0 0 37 0 1 2 178
Two Stage Auctions II: Common-Value Strategies and the Winner's Curse 0 0 0 48 1 1 2 363
Two-Person Fair Division of Indivisible Items when Envy-Freeness Is Impossible 0 0 0 10 3 4 6 19
Two-Person Fair Division of Indivisible Items: An Efficient, Envy-Free Algorithm 0 0 0 61 3 5 6 197
Two-Person Fair Division of Indivisible Items: Compatible and Incompatible Properties 0 0 0 6 1 2 4 8
Two-Sided Matchings: An Algorithm for Ensuring They Are Minimax and Pareto-Optimal 0 0 0 29 1 6 6 60
Two-person cake-cutting: the optimal number of cuts 0 0 0 49 0 2 4 84
Two-person pie-cutting: The fairest cuts 0 0 0 26 1 2 4 85
UNRAVELING IN EXCHANGE GAMES 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 169
Verifications and Stability: A Game Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 7 0 1 1 34
Voting Procedures 0 0 0 151 1 2 5 740
Voting on Referenda: The Separability Problem and Possible Solutions 0 0 0 58 4 8 9 292
Voting power in the Electoral College: The noncompetitive states count, too 0 0 1 30 1 1 4 82
When does approval voting make the "right choices"? 0 0 0 29 1 3 5 67
When is Size a Liability? Bargaining Power in Minimal Winning Coalitions 0 0 0 31 0 2 3 109
When is it Rational to be Magnanimous in Victory? 0 0 0 23 4 7 11 492
Winding Down if Preemption or Escalation Occurs: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 8 1 2 3 59
Would Ross Perot Have Won the 1992 Presidential election Under Approval Voting? 0 0 0 57 0 2 3 1,956
Yes-No Voting 0 0 0 29 0 0 0 218
Total Working Papers 2 7 19 6,515 208 426 672 41,205


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A Generic Negotiation Game 0 0 0 3 0 3 4 25
A Note on Stabilizing Cooperation in the Centipede Game 0 0 0 3 3 5 7 32
A Simple Bargaining Mechanism that Elicits Truthful Reservation Prices 0 0 0 3 2 4 5 18
A minimax procedure for electing committees 0 0 0 28 2 4 6 163
A nail-biting election 0 0 0 22 1 1 1 255
A note on the inefficiency of bidding over the price of a share 0 0 0 8 1 2 4 67
AGREEMENT THROUGH THREATS: THE NORTHERN IRELAND CASE 0 0 0 7 2 4 6 23
An Axiomatic Model of Voting Bodies* 0 0 0 0 4 6 7 12
Another Solution 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 17
Approval Voting 3 6 14 46 8 20 39 143
Approval Voting in Practice 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 214
Approval voting, Condorcet's principle, and runoff elections 0 0 1 4 1 3 4 34
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 1 1 8
Backward Induction Is Not Robust: The Parity Problem and the Uncertainty Problem 0 0 1 9 1 2 3 39
Binding Versus Final-Offer Arbitration: A Combination is Best 0 0 1 6 5 8 9 41
CATCH-22 AND KING-OF-THE-MOUNTAIN GAMES 0 0 0 2 2 8 9 24
Cake division with minimal cuts: envy-free procedures for three persons, four persons, and beyond 0 0 0 29 0 2 3 144
Camp David: Was The Agreement Fair? 0 0 0 11 1 1 4 36
Coalition formation on the U.S. Supreme Court: 1969–2009 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 41
Comment on Mayer's “A Note on ‘An Axiomatic Model of Voting Bodies’” 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
Comment on The Problem of Strategic Voting under Approval Voting (Vol. 78, December 1984, pp. 952-958) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Comment on Wagner (Vol. 77, June 1983, pp. 330-346) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
Comment on “Campaign Resource Allocations under the Electoral College” 0 0 0 1 1 3 3 13
Comments on Scharpf's “Games Real Actors could Play†0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15
Competitive Fair Division 0 1 4 234 1 6 10 814
Constrained Approval Voting: A Voting System to Elect a Governing Board 1 1 2 7 2 5 7 21
Cooperative vs non-cooperative truels: little agreement, but does that matter? 0 0 1 44 0 3 6 155
Dead Heat: The 2006 Public Choice Society Election 0 0 0 7 4 6 8 71
Deception in 2 × 2 Games 1 1 2 6 2 4 5 27
Dividing the Indivisible 0 0 1 6 1 2 7 24
Efficacy, power and equity under approval voting 0 0 0 0 2 6 8 18
Efficient Fair Division 0 1 2 8 0 5 6 24
Equilibrium Strategies for Final-Offer Arbitration: There is no Median Convergence 0 1 1 13 2 4 7 55
Every normal-form game has a Pareto-optimal nonmyopic equilibrium 0 0 0 1 0 4 5 14
FAIR DIVISION OF INDIVISIBLE ITEMS 0 0 1 65 1 3 5 184
Fair division of indivisible items between two people with identical preferences: Envy-freeness, Pareto-optimality, and equity 0 0 0 65 3 7 12 272
Fallback Bargaining 0 0 1 6 3 6 8 65
Final-offer arbitration with a bonus 0 0 0 20 0 2 4 106
Forming stable coalitions: The process matters 0 0 0 20 1 2 4 130
GAME THEORY AND EMOTIONS 0 1 1 15 0 3 3 74
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 1 3 27 0 4 7 75
Game Theory and Literature 1 1 1 427 4 6 10 1,329
Game Theory: Pitfalls and Opportunities in Applying It to International Relations 0 0 1 342 2 6 10 821
Going from theory to practice: the mixed success of approval voting 0 0 0 48 3 5 9 185
Intransigence in Negotiations 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 30
Kingmakers and leaders in coalition formation 0 0 0 5 3 3 6 39
Letter to the Editor—Authors' Rejoinder 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 4
Making Partisan Gerrymandering Fair: One Old and Two New Methods 0 0 1 11 2 4 5 29
Manipulability of voting by sincere truncation of preferences 0 1 1 3 1 3 5 24
Maximin Envy-Free Division of Indivisible Items 0 0 0 5 1 2 2 39
Measuring the Concentration of Power in Political Systems 0 0 1 14 2 4 7 75
Minimal winning coalitions in weighted-majority voting games 0 0 0 0 1 3 6 2,491
Multiwinner approval voting: an apportionment approach 0 0 0 4 3 4 6 34
Narrowing the field in elections: The Next-Two rule 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 30
Newcomb's Problem and Prisoners' Dilemma 0 0 0 7 1 1 2 47
Nonmyopic Equilibria in 2×2 Games 0 0 0 5 1 4 5 23
Optimal Jury Selection: A Game-Theoretic Model for the Exercise of Peremptory Challenges 1 1 2 6 5 6 11 22
Optimal Threats 0 0 1 4 0 0 2 21
Optimal resource allocation in presidential primaries 0 0 0 7 0 3 5 37
Paths to victory in presidential elections: the setup power of noncompetitive states 0 0 0 2 3 5 7 43
Peter C. Fishburn (1936–2021) 0 0 0 2 2 3 3 24
Peter C. Fishburn (1936–2021) 0 0 0 1 0 4 5 14
Proportional Representation 1 1 2 5 4 4 6 43
Proportional pie-cutting 0 0 0 30 3 4 9 155
Putting the Other Side “On Notice†Can Induce Compliance in Arms Control 0 0 0 0 3 5 5 12
Rejoinder to Niemi 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 5
Replies 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 7
Resource Allocations in the 1976 Campaign 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
Response to Rabow 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 15
Response to Randall Stone 0 0 0 1 2 3 3 22
Scheduling of panels by integer programming: Results for the 2005 and 2006 New Orleans meetings 0 0 0 10 1 1 1 61
Single-Peakedness and Disconnected Coalitions 0 0 0 4 2 2 4 31
The 3/2's Rule in Presidential Campaigning* 0 0 2 15 3 5 9 49
The Network Television Game: There May be No Best Schedule 0 0 0 2 1 2 4 7
The Paradox of Vote Trading* 1 2 4 11 4 6 8 36
The Probability of Nuclear War 0 1 2 8 3 5 6 29
The excess method: a multiwinner approval voting procedure to allocate wasted votes 0 1 1 6 4 9 12 30
The normative turn in public choice 0 0 0 25 0 0 1 90
The paradox of grading systems 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 27
The paradox of multiple elections 0 1 3 109 0 2 4 639
The responsiveness of approval voting: Comments on Saari and Van Newenhizen 0 0 1 3 0 1 6 24
The undercut procedure: an algorithm for the envy-free division of indivisible items 0 0 0 10 1 1 2 57
Theory of Moves: Overview and Examples 0 0 0 11 0 2 2 41
Threat Escalation and Crisis Stability: A Game-theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 5 1 3 5 20
Transaction Flows in the International System* 0 0 0 4 1 1 1 14
Two-Person Fair Division of Indivisible Items when Envy-Freeness is Impossible 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 6
Unanimity in the supreme court: A game-theoretic explanation of the decision in the white house tapes case 0 0 0 2 2 6 7 20
When is Size a Liability? 0 0 0 4 1 3 4 20
When is it Rational to be Magnanimous in Victory? 0 0 1 6 1 2 3 17
When to join a coalition, and with how many others, depends on what you expect the outcome to be 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 11
Winding Down if Preemption or Escalation Occurs 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 9
Total Journal Articles 9 22 60 1,904 135 301 459 10,369


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Biblical Games: Game Theory and the Hebrew Bible 0 0 0 0 5 12 18 401
Fair Division 0 0 0 0 1 4 7 128
Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 91
Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 227
Total Books 0 0 0 0 10 21 33 847


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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 2 3 5 198
Going from Theory to Practice: The Mixed Success of Approval Voting 0 0 0 0 3 7 15 23
How Democracy Resolves Conflict in Difficult Games 0 0 0 0 6 8 11 22
How to Elect a Representative Committee Using Approval Balloting 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 6
Peter Fishburn 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 29
Satisfaction Approval Voting 0 0 0 0 0 1 12 53
The Instability of Power Sharing 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 4
Voting Systems that Combine Approval and Preference 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 11
Voting procedures 0 1 2 107 2 5 8 410
Voting procedures 0 1 7 447 4 13 42 6,021
Total Chapters 0 2 9 613 19 42 106 6,777
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