We study environmental policy in a two nation world in which there is strategic behavior by governments and polluting firms. Two issues are analyzed. First, the conditions under which the conduct of unilateral environmental policy by a nation in a Bertrand game will immiserize that nation, are...

Researchers have paid scant attention to matchmaking from the perspective of a matchmaker. Therefore, our purpose is to analyze the circumstances under which a matchmaker optimally accepts or rejects individual matching assignments. We concentrate on two specific cases. In the first (second)...

In contemporary times, individuals wishing to get married are increasingly using matchmakers to assist them with the task of finding an apposite spouse. This notwithstanding, researchers have paid scant attention to the task of matchmaking from the perspective of a matchmaker. Therefore, the...