When Efficiency Requires Arbitrary Discrimination: Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Equilibrium Selection

Institutions may rely on fundamental principles, e.g., of legal philosophy, but may also have evolved according to institutional fitness, as gauged by a society’s well-being. In our stylized framework where two fundamental principles, equality and efficiency, conflict with each other, one of the thr...

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Main Authors: Werner Güth, Hironori Otsubo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-09-01
Series:Games
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/14/5/65