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3 Persons, 2 Cuts: A Maximin Envy-Free and a Maximally Equitable Cake-Cutting Algorithm 0 0 0 17 0 0 13 52
A Generic Negotiation Game 0 0 0 63 0 0 10 546
A Moving-Knife Solution to the Four-Person Envy-Free Cake-Division Problem 0 0 0 44 0 1 12 229
A Note on Stabilizing Cooperation in the Centipede Game 0 0 0 12 0 1 25 43
A Procedure for Divorce Settlements 0 0 0 99 0 0 7 982
A Simple Bargaining Mechanism That Elicits Truthful Reservation Prices 0 0 0 10 0 0 11 88
A Simple Bargaining Mechanism That Elicits Truthful Reservation Prices 0 0 0 57 0 0 14 172
A note on the inefficiency of bargaining over the price of a share 0 0 0 28 0 0 9 79
APPROVAL VOTING IN PRACTICE 0 0 0 25 0 1 8 269
ARE CRISIS RATIONAL? A GAME-THEORETIC ANALYSIS 0 0 0 20 0 0 12 314
ARMS-CONTROL INSPECTION STRTEGIES THAT INDUCE COMPLIANCE: A GAME-THEORITIC ANALYSIS 0 0 0 10 0 0 6 193
Absorbing Outcomes in 2 x 2 Games 0 0 0 22 0 0 9 73
An Envy-Free Cake Division Algorithm 0 0 0 89 0 0 6 684
An algorithm for the proportional division of indivisible items 0 0 1 24 0 1 17 104
Approval Voting in Practice 0 0 0 13 0 0 6 166
Arbitration Procedures 0 0 0 13 0 0 6 263
Are the Two Houses of Congress Really Equal? 0 0 0 51 0 0 11 729
Backward Induction is not Robust: The Parity Problem and the Uncertainty Problem 0 0 0 138 0 0 14 982
Binding Versus Final-Offer Arbitration: A Combination is Best 0 0 0 28 1 1 8 295
COALITION VOTING 0 0 0 38 1 1 9 381
CONSTRAINED APPROVAL VOTING: A CUSTOM-DESIGNED ELECTION SYSTEM 0 0 0 20 0 0 6 339
CONSTRAINED APPROVAL VOTING: A VOTING SYSTEM TO ELECT A GOVERNING BOARD 0 0 0 21 0 2 11 282
Camp David: Was the Agreement Fair? 0 0 0 91 1 2 8 468
Catch-22 and King-of-the-Mountain Games: Cycling, Frustration, and Power 0 0 0 118 2 3 11 1,752
Catch-Up: A Game in Which the Lead Alternates 0 0 0 2 1 2 12 28
Catch-Up: A Rule That Makes Service Sports More Competitive 0 0 0 19 1 1 15 52
Catch-Up: A Rule that Makes Service Sports More Competitive 0 0 0 10 1 1 11 36
Chairman Paradoxes Under Approval Voting 0 0 0 24 1 1 7 77
Coalition formation in the U.S. Supreme Court: 1969-2009 0 0 0 21 1 1 11 95
Cooperative VS. Non-cooperative Truels: Little Agreement, but Does that Matter? 0 0 1 68 0 1 21 286
Cooperative VS. Non-cooperative Truels: Little Agreement, but Does that Matter? 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 237
Cutting a pie is not a piece of cake 0 0 0 51 0 1 13 178
Cycles of Conflict 0 0 0 65 0 0 3 487
Deductive Prediction of Conflict: The Northern Ireland Case 0 0 0 46 0 0 8 1,808
Deterrence Versus Defense: A Game-Theoretic Model of Star-Wars 0 0 0 54 0 1 8 208
Deterrence and Uncertainty: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 16 1 1 12 73
Deterrence by Variable Retaliation: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 6 0 0 9 43
Divide-and-conquer: A proportional, minimal-envy cake-cutting algorithm 0 0 0 25 1 1 15 264
Dividing the Indivisible: Procedures for Allocating Cabinet Ministries to Political Parties in a Parliamentary System 0 0 0 58 1 1 13 188
Dividing the indivisible: procedures for allocation cabinet ministries to political parties in a parlamentary system 0 0 1 67 0 0 15 251
Does Approval Voting Elect the Lowest Common Denominator? 0 0 0 22 1 1 12 115
Equilibrium Strategies For Final-Offer Arbitration 0 0 0 24 0 0 5 128
Every Normal-Form Game Has a Pareto-Optimal Nonmyopic Equilibrium 0 0 0 24 3 3 17 62
Fair Division Pareto-Optimality Versus Strategic Robustness 0 0 0 18 0 0 7 224
Fair Division and Politics 0 0 0 23 1 1 12 180
Fair Division by Point Allocation 0 0 0 55 0 1 7 254
Fair Division of Indivisible Items between Two People with Identical Preferences: Envy-Freeness, Pareto-Optimality, and Equity 0 0 0 81 0 0 13 1,147
Fair Division: A New Approach to the Spratly Islands Controversy 0 0 0 149 0 1 14 745
Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance Between White and Black 0 0 1 8 1 1 15 59
Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance Between White and Black 0 0 0 7 1 2 20 54
Fairer Shootouts in Soccer: The $m-n$ Rule 0 0 0 10 2 4 23 44
Fallback Bargaining 0 0 0 88 1 2 14 666
Farsightedness in Games: Stabilizing Cooperation in International Conflict 0 0 0 16 1 1 12 41
Final-Offer Arbitration with a Bonus 0 0 0 12 0 0 6 124
Forming Stable Coalitions: The Process Matters 0 0 0 29 0 0 9 160
Game Theory and Emotions 0 0 0 269 1 1 17 1,054
Game Theory and Multilateral Negotiations: The single European Act and the Uruguay Round 0 0 0 84 0 0 10 859
Games Theory and Literature 0 0 0 184 0 1 9 779
How Lies Induced Cooperation in "Golden Balls:" A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 3 3 24 1 4 14 70
How Should Voting on Related Propositions be Conducted? 0 0 0 9 0 2 8 244
How democracy resolves conflict in difficult games 0 0 0 122 0 0 14 186
How to divide things fairly 0 0 0 50 0 0 8 145
Inducible Games: Using Tit-for-Tat to Stabilize Outcomes 0 0 0 25 0 1 27 226
Intransigence in Negotiations: The Dynamics of Disagreement 0 0 0 40 0 0 5 311
Kingmakers and Leaders in Coalition Formation 0 0 0 36 11 11 11 71
Kingmakers and Leaders in Coalition Formation 0 0 0 1 0 1 12 52
Kingmakers and leaders in coalition formation 0 0 0 28 2 2 13 105
Making Tennis Fairer: The Grand Tiebreaker 0 0 0 1 1 1 5 5
Making the Rules of Sports Fairer 0 0 0 56 0 0 20 97
Mathematics and Theology: Game-Theoretic Implications of God’s Omniscience 0 0 0 95 0 0 10 390
Maximin Envy-Free Division of Indivisible Items 0 0 0 58 0 0 10 66
Minimal Winning Coalitions in Weighted-Majority Games 0 0 0 24 1 1 10 310
Minimizing regret when dissolving a partnership 0 0 0 26 0 0 16 126
Modeling Free Choice in Games 0 0 0 41 0 0 5 338
Multi winner Approval Voting: An Apportionment Approach 0 0 1 57 0 0 32 149
Multi-Tier Tournaments: Matching and Scoring Players 0 0 1 18 1 2 12 22
N-Person cake-cutting: there may be no perfect division 0 0 0 46 0 1 24 114
Narrowing the field in elections: the next-two rule 2 2 2 18 3 3 10 63
National Security Games 0 0 0 37 0 0 8 296
New Chairman Paradoxes 0 0 0 13 0 0 5 59
Nonmyoptic Equilibria 0 0 0 17 0 0 8 60
Notes on Arms-Control Verification: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 16 0 0 9 71
OPTIMAL CHEATING AND INSPECTION STRATEGIES UNDER INF 0 0 0 18 0 0 6 411
Old and NewMoving-Knife Schemes 0 0 0 18 0 1 9 170
Optimal Deterrence 0 0 0 17 0 0 7 69
Optimal Resource Allocation in Presidential Primaries 0 0 0 12 0 0 3 54
Polls and the Problem of Strategic Information in Elections 0 0 0 9 0 0 5 33
Presidential Power: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 49 0 0 12 325
Proportional Representation in Variable-Size Legislatures 0 0 0 11 0 0 10 83
Proportional Representation: Broadening the Options 0 0 0 28 1 2 11 228
Putting the Other Side "On Notice" Can Induce Compliance in Arms Control 0 0 0 7 0 0 8 111
Rational De-Escalation 0 0 0 14 0 0 7 311
Resolving Social Issues in a Merger: A Fair-Division Approach 0 0 0 307 0 0 12 1,711
SEQUENTIAL ARBITRATION PROCEDURES 0 0 0 22 0 0 5 391
Satisfaction approval voting 0 0 6 42 2 7 62 290
Sequential Arbitration Procedures 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 408
Stabilizing Cooperative Outcomes in Two-Person Games: Theory and Cases 0 0 0 36 0 2 13 57
Stabilizing Power Sharing 0 0 0 43 0 1 10 132
Stabilizing unstable outcomes in prediction games 0 0 0 19 0 0 19 48
THE BOX PROBLEM: TO SWITCH OR NOT TO SWITCH? 0 0 0 145 0 0 9 837
The Dynamics of the Northern Ireland Condition 0 0 0 19 0 0 6 301
The Excess Method: A Multiwinner Approval Voting Procedure to Allocate Wasted Votes 0 0 1 26 2 3 15 101
The Instability of Power Sharing 0 0 0 37 0 0 11 101
The Paradox of Grading Systems 0 0 0 32 0 0 7 60
The Paradox of Multiple Elections 0 0 0 81 0 1 14 356
The Path to Stable Deterrence 0 0 0 22 0 0 5 138
The Point of No Return: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Crisis Stability 0 0 0 16 0 1 7 189
The Probability of Nuclear War 0 0 0 70 1 1 13 423
The Rationality of Surprise: Unstable Nash Equilibria and the Theory of Moves 0 0 0 103 0 0 5 333
The Responsiveness of Approval Voting: Comments on Saari and Van Newenhizen 0 0 0 34 0 0 7 154
The Truel 0 0 0 98 0 0 11 394
The Verification Problem in Arms Control: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 43 1 2 14 176
The undercut procedure: an algorithm for the envy-free division of indivisible items 0 0 0 44 2 4 21 206
Theory of Moves: Overview and Examples 0 0 0 543 0 0 6 2,141
Threat Escalation and Crisis Stability: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 43 1 2 14 204
Threat Power in Sequential Games 0 0 0 45 0 0 10 143
Three Solutions to Divide the Dollar 0 0 0 139 0 0 6 714
To Mobilize of Not to Mobilize: Catch 22s in International Crises 0 0 0 85 0 1 15 1,065
Two Stage Auctions I: Private-Value Strategies 0 0 0 37 0 0 8 185
Two Stage Auctions II: Common-Value Strategies and the Winner's Curse 0 0 0 48 0 0 10 372
Two-Person Fair Division of Indivisible Items when Envy-Freeness Is Impossible 0 0 0 10 0 2 13 28
Two-Person Fair Division of Indivisible Items: An Efficient, Envy-Free Algorithm 0 0 1 62 0 0 16 208
Two-Person Fair Division of Indivisible Items: Compatible and Incompatible Properties 0 0 1 7 0 0 14 20
Two-Sided Matchings: An Algorithm for Ensuring They Are Minimax and Pareto-Optimal 0 0 0 29 1 1 14 68
Two-person cake-cutting: the optimal number of cuts 0 0 0 49 0 0 10 92
Two-person pie-cutting: The fairest cuts 0 0 0 26 1 1 13 96
UNRAVELING IN EXCHANGE GAMES 0 0 0 16 0 0 3 172
Verifications and Stability: A Game Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 7 0 0 4 37
Voting Procedures 0 0 0 151 1 2 12 750
Voting on Referenda: The Separability Problem and Possible Solutions 0 0 0 58 0 0 13 297
Voting power in the Electoral College: The noncompetitive states count, too 0 0 0 30 0 0 10 91
When does approval voting make the "right choices"? 0 0 0 29 2 3 13 77
When is Size a Liability? Bargaining Power in Minimal Winning Coalitions 0 0 0 31 0 1 11 118
When is it Rational to be Magnanimous in Victory? 0 0 0 23 0 0 11 495
Winding Down if Preemption or Escalation Occurs: A Game-Theoretic Analysis 0 0 0 8 0 0 6 62
Would Ross Perot Have Won the 1992 Presidential election Under Approval Voting? 0 0 0 57 0 1 11 1,965
Yes-No Voting 0 0 0 29 0 0 6 224
Total Working Papers 2 5 20 6,528 60 112 1,545 42,292


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A Generic Negotiation Game 1 1 1 4 1 1 11 33
A Note on Stabilizing Cooperation in the Centipede Game 0 0 1 4 0 1 12 39
A Simple Bargaining Mechanism that Elicits Truthful Reservation Prices 0 0 0 3 1 1 12 26
A minimax procedure for electing committees 0 0 0 28 1 2 11 170
A nail-biting election 0 0 0 22 0 1 9 263
A note on the inefficiency of bidding over the price of a share 0 0 0 8 0 0 10 75
AGREEMENT THROUGH THREATS: THE NORTHERN IRELAND CASE 0 0 0 7 0 0 8 27
Another Solution 0 0 0 0 2 2 9 26
Approval Voting 2 5 22 62 3 29 102 224
Approval Voting in Practice 0 0 0 0 1 1 8 220
Approval voting, Condorcet's principle, and runoff elections 0 0 0 4 1 3 13 44
Backward Induction Is Not Robust: The Parity Problem and the Uncertainty Problem 0 0 0 9 0 0 7 44
Binding Versus Final-Offer Arbitration: A Combination is Best 0 0 0 6 0 0 15 48
CATCH-22 AND KING-OF-THE-MOUNTAIN GAMES 0 0 0 2 0 1 19 34
Cake division with minimal cuts: envy-free procedures for three persons, four persons, and beyond 0 0 0 29 0 1 13 155
Camp David: Was The Agreement Fair? 0 0 0 11 0 2 6 41
Coalition formation on the U.S. Supreme Court: 1969–2009 0 0 0 3 0 0 5 45
Comment on The Problem of Strategic Voting under Approval Voting (Vol. 78, December 1984, pp. 952-958) 0 0 0 0 1 2 11 12
Comment on Wagner (Vol. 77, June 1983, pp. 330-346) 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 9
Comment on “Campaign Resource Allocations under the Electoral College” 0 0 0 1 1 1 10 20
Comments on Scharpf's “Games Real Actors could Play†0 0 0 1 0 0 6 21
Competitive Fair Division 0 0 3 236 2 6 25 833
Constrained Approval Voting: A Voting System to Elect a Governing Board 0 0 1 7 0 1 15 31
Cooperative vs non-cooperative truels: little agreement, but does that matter? 0 0 1 44 0 2 17 167
Dead Heat: The 2006 Public Choice Society Election 0 0 0 7 0 0 11 76
Deception in 2 × 2 Games 0 0 1 6 0 1 9 32
Dividing the Indivisible 0 0 0 6 0 0 9 30
Efficacy, power and equity under approval voting 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 23
Efficient Fair Division 0 0 1 8 0 0 12 31
Equilibrium Strategies for Final-Offer Arbitration: There is no Median Convergence 1 1 2 14 3 4 21 71
Every normal-form game has a Pareto-optimal nonmyopic equilibrium 0 0 0 1 0 1 10 20
FAIR DIVISION OF INDIVISIBLE ITEMS 0 0 0 65 0 0 13 194
Fair division of indivisible items between two people with identical preferences: Envy-freeness, Pareto-optimality, and equity 0 0 0 65 0 3 35 300
Fallback Bargaining 0 3 3 9 2 6 18 77
Final-offer arbitration with a bonus 0 0 0 20 0 0 7 110
Forming stable coalitions: The process matters 0 0 0 20 0 0 11 139
GAME THEORY AND EMOTIONS 0 0 1 15 1 3 20 91
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 1 27 1 2 10 81
Game Theory and Literature 1 1 4 430 1 5 21 1,344
Game Theory: Pitfalls and Opportunities in Applying It to International Relations 1 1 4 346 39 42 75 889
Going from theory to practice: the mixed success of approval voting 0 0 1 49 1 1 15 195
Intransigence in Negotiations 0 0 0 1 0 1 12 40
Kingmakers and leaders in coalition formation 0 0 0 5 0 0 19 55
Letter to the Editor—Authors' Rejoinder 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 13
Making Partisan Gerrymandering Fair: One Old and Two New Methods 0 0 0 11 0 0 12 37
Manipulability of voting by sincere truncation of preferences 0 0 1 3 0 0 9 30
Maximin Envy-Free Division of Indivisible Items 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 42
Minimal winning coalitions in weighted-majority voting games 0 0 0 0 0 1 14 2,502
Multiwinner approval voting: an apportionment approach 0 0 0 4 0 3 18 48
Narrowing the field in elections: The Next-Two rule 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 36
Newcomb's Problem and Prisoners' Dilemma 0 1 1 8 0 1 20 66
Nonmyopic Equilibria in 2×2 Games 0 0 0 5 0 0 10 28
Optimal Jury Selection: A Game-Theoretic Model for the Exercise of Peremptory Challenges 0 0 2 7 0 1 16 32
Optimal Threats 0 0 0 4 0 1 3 24
Optimal resource allocation in presidential primaries 0 0 0 7 1 1 6 40
Paths to victory in presidential elections: the setup power of noncompetitive states 0 0 0 2 1 2 17 55
Peter C. Fishburn (1936–2021) 0 0 0 2 0 1 11 32
Peter C. Fishburn (1936–2021) 0 0 0 1 0 1 9 19
Proportional Representation 0 0 1 5 1 1 12 51
Proportional pie-cutting 0 0 0 30 2 2 11 161
Putting the Other Side “On Notice†Can Induce Compliance in Arms Control 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 21
Rejoinder to Niemi 0 0 0 0 2 3 8 11
Replies 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 10
Resource Allocations in the 1976 Campaign 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 9
Response to Rabow 0 0 0 3 0 0 6 20
Response to Randall Stone 0 0 0 1 0 0 13 32
Scheduling of panels by integer programming: Results for the 2005 and 2006 New Orleans meetings 0 0 0 10 0 1 7 67
Single-Peakedness and Disconnected Coalitions 0 0 0 4 0 1 9 38
The Network Television Game: There May be No Best Schedule 0 0 0 2 0 2 10 15
The Probability of Nuclear War 0 0 1 8 0 1 10 34
The excess method: a multiwinner approval voting procedure to allocate wasted votes 0 0 1 6 0 0 21 41
The normative turn in public choice 0 0 0 25 0 1 9 99
The paradox of grading systems 0 1 1 5 0 2 11 37
The paradox of multiple elections 0 0 1 109 0 1 12 649
The responsiveness of approval voting: Comments on Saari and Van Newenhizen 0 0 1 4 1 2 8 31
The undercut procedure: an algorithm for the envy-free division of indivisible items 0 0 0 10 1 2 14 70
Theory of Moves: Overview and Examples 0 0 0 11 0 0 8 47
Threat Escalation and Crisis Stability: A Game-theoretic Analysis 0 0 2 7 1 2 15 31
Two-Person Fair Division of Indivisible Items when Envy-Freeness is Impossible 0 0 0 1 0 0 9 13
Unanimity in the supreme court: A game-theoretic explanation of the decision in the white house tapes case 0 0 0 2 0 0 10 24
When is Size a Liability? 0 0 1 5 0 0 12 29
When is it Rational to be Magnanimous in Victory? 0 0 1 6 0 1 15 29
When to join a coalition, and with how many others, depends on what you expect the outcome to be 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 17
Winding Down if Preemption or Escalation Occurs 0 0 0 0 1 1 10 16
Total Journal Articles 6 14 61 1,899 74 165 1,133 11,011
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Biblical Games: Game Theory and the Hebrew Bible 0 0 0 0 0 0 48 437
Fair Division 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 132
Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds 0 0 0 0 1 3 17 242
Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds 0 0 0 0 1 1 8 96
Total Books 0 0 0 0 2 4 81 907


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Electing a Single Winner: Approval Voting in Practice, from Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures 0 2 2 60 0 3 12 207
Going from Theory to Practice: The Mixed Success of Approval Voting 0 0 0 0 0 1 18 34
How Democracy Resolves Conflict in Difficult Games 0 0 0 0 1 1 16 30
How to Elect a Representative Committee Using Approval Balloting 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 9
Peter Fishburn 0 0 0 0 0 2 10 37
Satisfaction Approval Voting 0 0 0 0 2 3 16 67
The Instability of Power Sharing 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6
Voting Systems that Combine Approval and Preference 0 0 0 1 1 1 14 23
Voting procedures 1 1 11 457 2 8 49 6,056
Voting procedures 0 1 4 110 0 2 21 425
Total Chapters 1 4 17 628 7 22 163 6,894
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