We study the optimal design of organizations under the assumption that agents in a contest
care about their relative position. A principal determines the number and size of status …

Theories (and experiments) on decision making under risk typically ignore (and exclude) a
social context. We explore whether this omission is detrimental. To do so we experimentally …

This paper provides a new approach to a utility function, by deriving it from deeper first
principles. Using a minimum set of cognitive tools, one can evaluate choice options and their …

This paper investigates social influences on attitudes to risk and reanalyses how risk taking
varies with relative position and inequality. Individuals with low initial wealth, about to …

Formalizing early social psychology models, we show that a rational desire to avoid looking
unskilled generates prospect theory's anomalies of loss aversion, probability weighting, and …

This thesis addresses the efforts of different states to establish their authority over the
Pashtun ethnic group. The Pashtun are at the heart of the conflict in Afghanistan, and …

This paper investigates social influences on attitudes to risk and offers an evolutionary
explanation of risk-taking by young low-ranked males. Becker, Murphy and Werning (2005) …

This paper suggests a cognitive basis for the isomorphism of a utility function and a
distribution function. With only a minimal set of cognitive tools-ordinal comparison and …

This dissertation examines the public participation activities of State Departments of
Transportation (SDOTs) in the United States. A review of existing literature and legal …

In the aftermath of terrorist incident of 9/11 the interest of the world powers was drawn to the
issue of ungoverned spaces (UGSs) in the world. The tribal region along the Durand Line …