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Aural Abjections and Dancing Dystopias: Sonic Signifiers in Video Game Horror

Merriner, Ashley (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

For centuries, the horror genre has ensnared audiences across generations and genre lines: ballet, opera, literature, poetry, film, and, most recently, video games have all utilized the power of terror to shock, horrify, ...
Bargaining by Children

Liday, Steven G.; Harbaugh, William; Krause, Kate (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2002-07-20)

We study the development of bargaining behavior in children age seven through 18, using ultimatum and dictator games. We find that bargaining behavior changes substantially with age and that most of this change appears to ...
Benton County’s Prairie Species Habitat Conservation Plan: Signposts for the future of species-based land-use regulation?

Novick, Adam (The Wildlife Society, Oregon Chapter, 2011-02-10)

Does Benton County's recently approved Habitat Conservation Plan address concern that species-based land-use regulation (whether prohibitions or mitigation requirements) might be counterproductive to the survival of ...
Game Theory and Interactive Learning Computers in the Classroom

Wallace, Sean (2006-06)

Game theory is the sub-field of economics and mathematics that studies strategic decision-making behavior. Simple elements of game theory are taught in introductory micro-economics courses, typically in a lecture format. ...
Gradualism in Tax Treaties with Irreversible Foreign Direct Investment

Chisik, Richard; Davies, Ronald B. (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2000-06-01)

Bilateral international tax treaties govern the host country taxation for the vast majority of the world’s foreign direct investment (FDI). Of particular interest is the fact that the tax rates used under these treaties ...
A Mechanism for Inducing Cooperation in Non-Cooperative Environments: Theory and Applications

Ellis, Christopher J.; Nouweland, Anne van den (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2000-02-01)

We construct a market based mechanism that induces players in a non-cooperative game to make the same choices as characterize cooperation. We then argue that this mechanism is applicable to a wide range of economic questions ...
Prospect Theory in Choice and Pricing Tasks

Harbaugh, William; Krause, Kate; Vesterlund, Lise (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2002-07-20)

The most distinctive prediction of prospect theory is the fourfold pattern (FFP) of risk attitudes. People are said to be (1) risk-seeking over low-probability gains, (2) risk-averse over low-probability losses, (3) ...
Reversals of preference between bids and choices in gambling decisions

Slovic, Paul; Lichtenstein, Sarah (Journal of Experimental Psycholog, 1971)

Subjects in 3 experiments chose their preferred bet from pairs of bets, and later bid for each bet separately. In each pair, one bet had· a higher probability ·of winning (P bet); the other offered more to win (S bet). ...
The Shapley valuation function for strategic games in which players cooperate

Carpente, Luisa; Casas-Mendez, Balbina; García-Jurado, I. (Ignacio); Nouweland, Anne van den (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2004-02-19)

In this note we use the Shapley value to define a valuation function. A valuation function associates with every non-empty coalition of players in a strategic game a vector of payoffs for the members of the coalition that ...