Alex Possajennikov's Publications

Some results of my research are published in international academic journals. 

Refereed Publications

• "“Greedy” Demand Adjustment in Cooperative Games" (with Montero, M.), Annals of Operations Research, 336, 1461-1478 (2024)
  [Abstract and download] [Pre-print (Final accepted version)]

• "(In)efficiency in Private Value Bargaining with Naive Players" (with Saran, R.), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 216, 42-61 (2023)
  [Abstract and download] [Pre-print (Final accepted version)] [Supplementary Material] [Experiment Instructions]

• "Communication, Leadership and Coodination Failure" (with Dong, L., Montero, M.), Theory and Decision, 84, 557-584 (2018)
  [Abstract and download] [Pre-print (Final accepted version)]

• "Belief Formation in a Signaling Game without Common Prior: An Experiment", Theory and Decision, 84, 483-505 (2018)
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• "Tullock Contests May Be Revenue Superior to Auctions in a Symmetric Setting" (with Matros, A.), Economics Letters, 142, 74-77 (2016)
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• "Majoritarian Blotto Contests with Asymmetric Battlefields: An Experiment on Apex Games" (with Montero, M., Sefton, M., Turocy, T.L.), Economic Theory 61, 55-89 (2016)
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• "Conjectural Variations in Aggregative Games: An Evolutionary Perspective", Mathematical Social Sciences 77, 55-61 (2015)
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• "Signaling without a Common Prior: Results on Experimental Equilibrium Selection" (with Drouvelis, M., Mueller, W.), Games and Economic Behavior 74, 102-119 (2012)
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• "On Delegation in Contests and the Survival of Payoff Maximizing Behavior", B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (Topics), 10, Article 25 (2010)
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• "On the Equivalence of Nash and Evolutionary Equilibrium in Finite Populations" (with Hehenkamp, B., Guse, T.), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 72(3), 254-258 (2010)
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• "On the Stability of Evolutionary Dynamics in Games with Incomplete Information" (with Amann, E.), Mathematical Social Sciences, 58, 310-321 (2009)
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• "The Evolutionary Stability of Constant Consistent Conjectures", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 72, 21-29 (2009)
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• "Commitment in Symmetric Contests", Economics Bulletin, 29(1), 376-384 (2009)
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• "Cooperation and Competition: Learning of Strategies and Evolution of Preferences in Prisoners' Dilemma and Hawk-Dove Games", International Game Theory Review, 7, 443-459 (2005)
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• "Two-Speed Evolution of Strategies and Preferences in Symmetric Games", Theory and Decision, 57, 227-263 (2004)
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• "Evolutionary Equilibrium in Tullock Contests: Spite and Overdissipation" (with Hehenkamp, B., Leininger, W.), European Journal of Political Economy, 20, 1045-1057 (2004) [Reprinted in 2008 in Congleton, R.D., Hillman, A.L., Konrad, K.A. (eds) 40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking, Vol. 1, Springer, Berlin, 473-485]
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• "Imitation Dynamic and Nash Equilibrium in Cournot Oligopoly with Capacities", International Game Theory Review, 5, 291-305 (2003)
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• "Evolutionary Foundations of Aggregate-Taking Behavior", Economic Theory, 21, 921-928 (2003)
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• "Equilibrium Selection in a Merger Game", Economics Letters, 72, 255-261 (2001)
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• "On the Evolutionary Stability of Altruistic and Spiteful Preferences", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 42, 125-129 (2000)
  [Abstract and download] [Pre-print (Final accepted version)]

Invited Publications

Together with Maria Montero, we took the opportunity to publish in the special issue on Weighted Majority Voting Games of the journal Games :

• "An Adaptive Model of Demand Adjustment in Weighted Majority Games" (with Montero, M.), Games, 13, Article 5 (2022)
  [Abstract and download] [Pre-print (Final accepted version)]

I was asked to contribute to a book of original research papers in memory of Richard Cornes, economic theorist who was a colleague at the University of Nottingham:

• "Evolution of Consistent Conjectures in Semi-aggregative Representation of Games, with Applications to Public Good Games and Contests", in: Buchholz, W., Ruebbelke, D. (eds) The Theory of Externalities and Public Goods: Essays in Memory of Richard C. Cornes, Springer, 85-105 (2017)
  [Abstract and download] [Pre-print (Final accepted version)]

The Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization invited my comment on a paper by Joseph Henrich for a special issue focusing on the evolution of altruism:

• "Comment on 'Cultural Group Selection, Coevolutionary Processes & Large-Scale Cooperation' by Joseph Henrich", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 53, 97-100 (2004)
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