| Month | Date | Topic | DQs |
| Aug | 29 | Introduction | |
| Sep | 5 | Labor Day -- no class | |
| 12 | Economic Characteristics of Communication Networks [readings][slides] | ||
| 19 | Demand and Pricing [readings] | Brad, Paul | |
| 26 | Economics of Wireless Networks [readings] | Alvise, Sergiu | |
| Oct | 3 | Network Architecture [readings][slides] | Matthew, Karthik, Mike D, Bowei |
| 10 | Economics of P2P Networks: Free-riding, Incentives for Cooperation [readings][slides] | Ross, Andrew | |
| 17 | Economics of P2P Networks: BitTorrent Case Study [readings] | Gary, Edmund, Sarah, Jer-Yee | |
| 24 | Reputation and Trust [readings]; Guest speaker: Dr. Sonja Buchegger [slides] | Brighten, Jen, Jonathan | |
| 31 | Network Formation and Economics of Social Networks [readings] | Megan, Stephanie, Ryan | |
| Nov | 7 | Information Asymmetries; Mechanism Design [readings] Guest speaker: Dr. Moshe Babaioff | Melissa |
| 14 | Economics of Information Security [readings] | Steve, Jeffrey, Josh | |
| 21 | Rethinking Rationality [readings] | Scott, Ben, Jens | |
| 28 | Student presentations [schedule] | ||
| Dec | 5 | Student presentations [schedule] |
Sep 12. Economic Characteristics of Networks and ImplicationsPart 1. Economics of Communication Networks
Read:
Economics, Computer Science, and Policy.
Michael Kearns
Issues in Science and Technology, Winter 2005
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns/papers/ist.pdf
Pricing Communication Networks: Economics, Technology and Modelling,
Wiley 2003. Chapters 5-6.
Courcoubetis and Weber
Wikipedia Entries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_economics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_welfare_function
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_forms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
(another overview article
on network effects)
Optional:
A refutation of Metcalfe's Law and a better estimate for the value of
networks and network interconnections
A. Odlyzko and B. Tilly
Mimeo, 2005
http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/metcalfe.pdf
Economic FAQs About the Internet
Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Hal R. Varian
MIT Workshop on Internet Economics March 1995
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/works/FAQs.html
An Introduction to Internet Economics
Lee W. McKnight and Joseph P. Bailey
MIT Workshop on Internet Economics March 1995
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/works/McKniIntro.html
Other articles from the same workshop (http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/econTOC.html) which were eventually edited into a book: McKnight, L. W., J. P. Bailey, eds. (1997) Internet Economics. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Read:
The Demand for Bandwidth: Evidence from the INDEX Experiment
Hal Varian
Mimeo, 2002
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/brookings.pdf
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/brookings/brookings.html
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/brookings-talk.pdf
An Overview of Pricing Concepts for Broadband IP Networks
M Falkner, M Devetsikiotis, I Lambadaris
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2000
http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/surveys/public/2q00issue/pdf/Falkner.pdf
Skim:
An Economic Map of the Internet
Shawn O'Donnell
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Sep 2002.
http://itc.mit.edu/itel/docs/2002/Internet_Map.pdf
Optional:
A. M. Odlyzko
The evolution of price discrimination in transportation and its implications
for the Internet
Review of Network Economics, vol. 3, no. 3, September 2004,
pp. 323-346.
http://www.rnejournal.com/articles/odlyzko_RNE_sept_2004.pdf
Paris Metro Pricing for the Internet
A. M. Odlyzko
Proc. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'99), ACM, 1999, pp.
140-147.
http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/paris.metro.pricing.pdf
Pricing Congestible Network Resources
J. K. MacKie-Mason, H. Varian
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 1995
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/pricing-congestible.pdf
Pricing the Internet
J. K. MacKie-Mason, H. Varian
In Public access to the Internet, B. Kahin and J. Keller, eds.,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ; Prentice-Hall, 1995.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jmm/papers/Pricing_the_Internet.pdf
Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
Sep 26. Economics of Wireless Networks
Read:
Spectrum Management: Property Rights, Markets, and The Commons
Gerald R. Faulhaber, David J. Farber
AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, Working Paper 02-12,
2002.
http://100x100network.org/papers/faulhaber-brookings2002.pdf
Metro-Scale Mesh Networking with Tropos MetroMesh™ Architecture
Technology Whitepaper
February, 2005
Tropos Networks, Inc.
http://www.tropos.com/pdf/tropos_metro-scale.pdf
Maximizing Profitability: Tropos Networks and the Wireless ISP
Business Case Whitepaper
February, 2005
Tropos Networks, Inc.
http://www.tropos.com/pdf/bus_case_whitpaper.pdf
Optional:
Business Case Models for Fixed Broadband Wireless Access based on WiMAX
Technology and the 802.16 Standard
WiMAX Forum Whitepaper
October 10, 2004
http://www.wimaxforum.org/news/downloads/WiMAX-The_Business_Case-Rev3.pdf
WiMAX: The Business Case for Fixed Wireless Access in Emerging Markets
WiMAX Forum Whitepaper
June 2005
http://www.wimaxforum.org/news/downloads/Business_Case_for_Emerging_Mkts_Rev1_2.pdf
The Role of Fixed Wireless Access Networks in the Deployment of Broadband
Services and Competition in Local Telecommunications Markets: An Engineering,
Economic, and Public Policy Analysis
Kanchana Wanichkorn, Marvin Sirbu
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, September, 2002
http://www.ini.cmu.edu/ITC/Wanichkorn-Sirbu_TPRC02_v2.pdf
Developing and Deploying Multihop Wireless Networks for Low-Income Communities
Joseph D. Camp, Edward W. Knightly, and William S. Reed
Proceedings of Digital Communities 2005, Napoli, Italy, June 2005.
http://www.ece.rice.edu/networks/content/pdf/TFA.pdf
Economic Analysis of Networking Technologies for Rural Developing Regions
Shridhar Mubaraq Mishra, John Hwang, Dick Filippini, Reza Moazzami,
and Lakshminarayanan Subramanian
To appear, 1st Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, 2005.
http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/People/Grad_Students/smm/wine324a.pdf
"Wireless Philadelphia", the citywide wireless broadband network
- Business Plan: http://www.wirelessphiladelphia.org/pdfs/Wireless-Phila-Business-Plan-040305-1245pm.pdf
- Request for Proposals: http://www.phila.gov/wireless/pdfs/WP%20RFP%204-5-05%20rev%20v4-CLEAN.pdf
Game Theoretic Modeling of WiFi Pricing
J. Musacchio, J. Walrand
41st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication and Control, Monticello,
IL, October 2003.
http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wlr/Papers/allerton2003_WiFi.pdf
End-to-End Performance and Fairness in Multihop Wireless Backhaul Networks
V. Gambiroza, B. Sadeghi, and E. Knightly
Proceedings of ACM MobiCom 2004, Philadelphia, PA, September 2004.
http://www.ece.rice.edu/networks/papers/GSK04.pdf
Read:
The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols
David D. Clark
Proc. SIGCOMM ‘88, Computer Communication Review Vol. 18, No. 4, August
1988, pp. 106–114
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/ccr/archive/1995/jan95/ccr-9501-clark.pdf
Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow’s Internet
David D. Clark, John Wroclawski, Karen R. Sollins, Robert Braden
Proceedings of ACM Sigcomm 2002.
http://sigcomm.org/sigcomm2002/papers/tussle.pdf
The Paradox of the Best Network
David S. Isenberg and David Weinberger
http://netparadox.com/
Optional:
Assessing the Internet: Lessons Learned, Strategies for Evolution, and
Future Possibilities
Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn
ACM 2004 Turing Award Lecture, August 22, 2005.
Webcast: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2005/webcast.html
End-to-end arguments in system design.
J. H. Saltzer, D. P. Reed, and D. D. Clark.
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, pages 277-288, 1984.
http://www.reed.com/Papers/EndtoEnd.html
Rise of the Stupid Network
David Isenberg
Computer Telephony, August 1997, pg 16-26.
http://isen.com/stupid.html
http://www.hyperorg.com/misc/stupidnet.html
Rethinking the design of the Internet: The end to end arguments vs.
the brave new world
David D. Clark, Marjory S. Blumenthal
TPRC 2000
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/e2e/papers/TPRC-Clark-Blumenthal.pdf
A Blueprint for Introducing Disruptive Technology into the Internet.
Larry Peterson, Tom Anderson, David Culler, and Timothy Roscoe.
Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networking (HotNets),
October 2002.
http://www.planet-lab.org/php/hotnets.pdf
Towards an Evolvable Internet Architecture
Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker, Steven McCanne
Proceedings of ACM Sigcomm 2005.
http://sigcomm.org/sigcomm2005/paper-RatShe.pdf
Oct 10. Free-Riding, Incentives for CooperationPart 2. Economics of Peer-to-Peer Networks
Read:
The Evolution of Cooperation.
Axelrod, Robert
Science, 211(4489):1390-6, 1981
http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/groups/ailab/people/nitschke/refs/Cooperation/axelrod.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation
Free Riding on Gnutella
E. Adar, B. Huberman
First Monday, 5(10), October 2000.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_10/adar/index.html
Robust Incentive Techniques for Peer-to-Peer Networks
M. Feldman, K. Lai, I. Stoica, and J. Chuang
ACM E-Commerce Conference (EC'04), May 2004.
http://p2pecon.berkeley.edu/pub/p243-EC04.pdf
Background material (Wikipedia Entries):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_Commons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium
Optional:
Incentives for sharing in peer-to-peer networks
Philippe Golle, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Ilya Mironov
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Electronic Commerce, p.264-267,
2001
http://crypto.stanford.edu/~pgolle/papers/peer.html
Quantifying Disincentives in Peer-to-Peer Networks
M. Feldman, K. Lai, J. Chuang, and I. Stoica
1st Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems, June 2003
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/p2pecon/papers/s4-feldman.ps
Free-Riding and Whitewashing in Peer-to-Peer Systems
M. Feldman, C. Papadimitriou, J. Chuang, and I. Stoica
ACM SIGCOMM'04 Workshop on Practice and Theory of Incentives in Networked
Systems (PINS), August 2004.
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2004/workshop_papers/p35-feldman11.pdf
Free Riding on Gnutella Revisited: The Bell Tolls?
Hughes, Coulson, Walkerdine
IEEE Distributed Systems Online, June 2005
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/8968/31531/01471660.pdf?arnumber=1471660
The Economics of Peer-to-Peer Networks
R Krishnan, MD Smith, R Telang
Journal of Information Technology Theory and Applications, 2003
http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~rtelang/jitta_published.pdf
Read:
Incentives Build Robustness in Bit Torrent
Bram Cohen
1st Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems, 2003
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/conferences/p2pecon/papers/s4-cohen.pdf
Incentives in BitTorrent Induce Free Riding
Seung Jun and Mustaque Ahamad
3rd Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems (P2PECON), August
2005.
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2005/paper-JunAha.pdf
Drawing Crowds and Bit Welfare
Eytan Adar
ACM SIGECOM Exchanges, July 2005.
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigecom/exchanges/volume_5_(04)/5.4-adar.pdf
Optional:
Influences on Cooperation in BitTorrent Communities
Nazareno Andrade, Miranda Mowbray, Aliandro Lima, Gustavo Wagner, Matei
Ripeanu
3rd Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems (P2PECON), August
2005.
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2005/paper-AndMow.pdf
Faithfulness in Internet Algorithms
Jeffrey Shneidman, David C. Parkes, Laurent Massoulié
ACM SIGCOMM'04 Workshop on Practice and Theory of Incentives in Networked
Systems (PINS), August 2004.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1016537
A Case for Taxation in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Broadcast
Y.-H. Chu, J. Chuang, and H. Zhang
ACM SIGCOMM'04 Workshop on Practice and Theory of Incentives in Networked
Systems (PINS), August 2004.
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2004/workshop_papers/pin24-chu111.pdf
SplitStream: High-bandwidth multicast in a cooperative environment
M. Castro, P. Druschel, A-M. Kermarrec, A. Nandi, A. Rowstron and A.
Singh
ACM SOSP'03, Lake Bolton, New York, October, 2003.
http://research.microsoft.com/~antr/PAST/SplitStream-sosp.pdf
Samsara: Honor Among Thieves in Peer-to-Peer Storage
LP Cox, BD Noble, TJ Green
ACM SOSP'03, Lake Bolton, New York, October, 2003.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=945458
Read:
Reputation Systems
Resnick, Paul, Zeckhauser, Richard, Friedman, Eric, and Kuwabara, Ko.
Communications of the ACM, 43(12), December 20000, pages 45-48.
http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/journals/cacm/2000-43-12/p45-resnick/
Evolution of indirect reciprocity by image scoring
Nowak and Sigmund
Nature 393, 573 - 577 (11 June 1998)
http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/31225
http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/publications_nowak/Nature98.pdf
Self-Policing Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks by Reputation Systems
Sonja Buchegger, Jean-Yves Le Boudec
IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Topic on Advances in Self-Organizing
Networks, July 2005
http://www.sonja.ws/selfpolicing_commag2005.pdf
Skim:
Friedman, E. and P. Resnick (2001)
The Social Cost of Cheap Pseudonyms.
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 10(2): 173-199.
http://www.si.umich.edu/~presnick/papers/identifiers/081199.pdf
Optional:
The Evolution of Cooperation under Cheap Pseudonyms
M. Feldman, J. Chuang
7th International IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'05),
July 2005.
http://p2pecon.berkeley.edu/pub/FC-EC05.pdf
Sybilproof reputation mechanisms
Cheng and Friedman.
3rd Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems (P2PECON), August
2005.
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2005/paper-CheFri.pdf
The EigenTrust Algorithm for Reputation Management in P2P Networks
S. Kamvar, M. Scholsser, and H. Garcia-Molina
Proc. 12th Int'l World Wide Web Conf., 2003.
http://www.stanford.edu/~sdkamvar/papers/eigentrust.pdf
A robust reputation system for p2p and mobile ad-hoc networks
Sonja Buchegger, Jean-Yves Le Boudec
P2PEcon 2004, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, U.S.A., June 2004
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/p2pecon/confman/papers/s2p2.pdf
The Digitization of Word-of-Mouth: Promise and Challenges of Online
Reputation Mechanisms.
Chris Dellarocas
Management Science, October 2003.
http://ssrn.com/abstract=393042
Further exploration:
Reputations Research Network
http://reputationresearch.net/
Oct 31. Network Formation; Social NetworksPart 3. Additional Considerations
Read:
Wikipedia Entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network
The Economics of Social Networks
Matthew Jackson
July 2005
Proceedings of the 9th World Congress of the Econometric Society, edited
by Richard Blundell, Whitney Newey, and Torsten Persson, Cambridge University
Press.
http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~jacksonm/netect.pdf
Enhancing Reputation Mechanisms via Online Social Networks
T. Hogg and L. Adamic
Proceedings of the 5th ACM conference on Electronic commerce, 2004
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=988811
Optional:
SPROUT: P2P Routing with Social Networks
Sergio Marti, Prasanna Ganesan, and Hector Garcia-Molina.
First International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer and Databases (P2P&DB
2004). March, 2004.
http://www.stanford.edu/~smarti/papers/2004-10.pdf
Economic Properties of Social Networks
S. Kakade, M. Kearns, L. Ortiz, R. Pemantle, and S. Suri
Proceedings of NIPS 2004
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns/papers/socialecon.pdf
On a Network Creation Game
Fabrikant, Luthra, Maneva, Papadimitriou, Shenker
ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, 2003
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=872035.872088
Characterizing Selfishly Constructed Overlay Routing Networks
Byung-Gon Chun, Rodrigo Fonseca, Ion Stoica and John Kubiatowicz
IEEE INFOCOM'2004, March, 2004.
http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2004/Papers/28_4.PDF
A Cost-Based Analysis of Overlay Routing Geometries
N. Christin and J. Chuang
IEEE INFOCOM'05, March 2005
http://p2pecon.berkeley.edu/pub/ChCh-INFOCOM05.pdf
Search in the Formation of Large Networks: How Random are Socially Generated
Networks?
Matthew O. Jackson and Brian W. Rogers.
Mimeo, 2004
http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~jacksonm/netpower.pdf
A survey of models of network formation: stability and efficiency.
Matthew Jackson
Chapter 1 in Group Formation in Economics; Networks, Clubs and Coalitions
, edited by Gabrielle Demange and Myrna Wooders, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge U.K., 2004.
http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~jacksonm/netsurv.pdf
Nov 7. Information Asymmetries; Mechanism Design
Read:
Algorithms for Selfish Agents -- Mechanism Design for Distributed Computation
N. Nisan.
STACS 1999.
http://www.springerlink.com/index/PEWUQ339RE3XM97C.pdf
Distributed algorithmic mechanism design: recent results and future
directions.
J. Feigenbaum and S. Shenker.
In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Discrete Algorithms
and Methods for Mobile Computing and Communications, pages 1-13, 2002.
http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/jf/FS.pdf
Classic Mechanism Design
David Parkes
Chapter 2, Iterative Combinatorial Auctions: Achieving Economic and
Computational Efficiency
Ph.D. dissertation, Univesity of Pennsylvania, May, 2001.
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~parkes/pubs/ch2.pdf
[Author's note: This chapter provides a brief introduction to game
theory, and then introduces important concepts in mechanism design. The
revelation principle, the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanisms, and important
Impossibility and Possibility results are all discussed at some length.]
Optional:
Mechanism Theory
Matthew O. Jackson
http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~jacksonm/mechtheo.pdf
Mechanism Design
Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, Jerry R. Green
Chapter 23, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, 1995
Mechanism Design for Computerized Agents
H. Varian
Usenix Workshop on Electronic Commerce, July 11-12, 1995, New York.
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/mechanism-design.pdf
Computational-Mechanism Design: A Call to Arms
Rajdeep Dash, Nicholas Jennings and David Parkes.
IEEE Intelligent Systems, November 2003, pages 40-47 (Special Issue
on Agents and Markets).
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/econcs/pubs/call_to_arms.pdf
Algorithmic mechanism design.
N. Nisan and A. Ronen.
In Proceedings of ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing, pages 129-140,
1999.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=301287
A BGP-based mechanism for lowest-cost routing.
J. Feigenbaum, C. Papadimitriou, R. Sami, and S. Shenker.
In Proceedings of the 21st Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing,
pages 173-182, 2002.
http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/jf/FPSS.pdf
Hidden action in multi-hop routing.
M. Feldman, J. Chuang, I. Stoica and S. Shenker.
Proceedings of ACM Conference on E-Commerce, 2005.
http://p2pecon.berkeley.edu/pub/FCSS-EC05.pdf
How Bad is Selfish Routing?
T. Roughgarden and E. Tardos.
Full version appears in Journal of the ACM, 49(2):236--259, March 2002.
Conference version appears in FOCS 2000, pages 93--102.
http://theory.stanford.edu/~tim/papers/routing.pdf
Pricing WiFi at Starbucks -- Issues in Online Mechanism Design
E. Friedman and D. Parkes
Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Conf. on Electronic Commerce (EC'03)
http://www.orie.cornell.edu/%7Efriedman/pfiles/wifi.pdf
Wikipedia Entries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_design
[Example of a page that could use some help.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal-agent_problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_selection
Read:
Why Information Security is Hard: An Economic Perspective
Ross Anderson
17th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, December 10-14,
2001
http://www.acsac.org/2001/papers/110.pdf
System Reliability and Free-Riding
Hal Varian
In Economics of Information Security, Camp, L. Jean; Lewis, Stephen
(Eds.), Springer 2004.
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/2004/reliability
Optional:
Thede Loder, Marshall Van Alstyne, Rick Wash
An Economic Answer to Unsolicited Communication.
Proceedings of the 5th ACM conference on Electronic Commerce, 2004.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=988780
Combating Peer-to-Peer SPAM and Decoys with Object Reputation
Kevin Walsh, Emin Gün Sirer
3rd Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems (P2PECON), August
2005.
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2005/paper-WalSir.pdf
Nov 21. Rethinking Rationality
Read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics
Rethinking Rationality
Gerd Gigerenzer, Reinhard Selten
Chapter 1 of "Bounded
Rationality", Gerd Gigerenzer, Reinhard Selten, Editors.
Screen-viewable format available at: http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262072149&part=chap1
Near Rationality and Competitive Equilibria in Networked Systems
N. Christin, J. Grossklags, and J. Chuang
ACM SIGCOMM'04 Workshop on Practice and Theory of Incentives in Networked
Systems (PINS), August 2004
http://p2pecon.berkeley.edu/pub/CGC-PINS04.pdf
Optional:
What is Bounded Rationality?
Reinhard Selten
Chapter 2 of "Bounded
Rationality", Gerd Gigerenzer, Reinhard Selten, Editors.
Screen-viewable format available at: http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/chapter?isbn=0262072149&part=chap2
Maps of Bounded Rationality: Psychology for Behavioral Economics.
Kahneman, D.
American Economic Review (December 2003): 1449-1475.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/aea/aer/2003/00000093/00000005/art00001
(Note: This is Kahneman's Nobel lecture. You can watch the lecture
on video at http://nobelprize.org/economics/laureates/2002/kahneman-lecture.html)
Privacy and Rationality in Individual Decision Making
Alessandro Acquisti and Jens Grossklags
IEEE Security and Privacy, IEEE Computer Society, Vol. 3, No. 1, January/February
2005, pp. 26-33.
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~jensg/research/paper/Acquisti_Grossklags05.pdf
Ten Little Treasures of Game Theory and Ten Intuitive Contradictions
Jacob K. Goeree and Charles A. Holt
American Economic Review, vol. 91(5), pages 1402-142. 2001.
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~cah2k/treasure.pdf
Fairness and Retaliation: The Economics of Reciprocity
Fehr, and Gächter.
Journal of Economic Perspectives 14 (2000).
http://www.iew.unizh.ch/wp/iewwp040.pdf
The Nature of Human Altruism
E. Fehr and U. Fischbacher
Nature 425 (23 October 2003): 785-791.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v425/n6960/pdf/nature02043.pdf
http://www.iew.unizh.ch/home/fehr/papers/NatureOfHumanAltruism.pdf
In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale
Societies.
Henrich, Fehr, Boyd, Bowles, Gintis, Camerer, and McElreath.
American Economic Review 91 (2001): 73-78.
http://www.iew.unizh.ch/home/fehr/papers/insearch.pdf
Public Goods: A Survey of Experimental Research.
Ledyard, John O.
Handbook of Experimental Economics. Princeton University Press,
1995.
http://econwpa.wustl.edu/eps/pe/papers/9405/9405003.pdf
An Experiment on Learning with Limited Information: Nonconvergence,
Experimentation Cascades, and the Advantage of Being Slow
Eric Friedman, Mikhael Shor, Scott Schenker, and Barry Sopher
Games and Economic Behavior (2004, Vol. 47 No. 2, pp. 325-352)
http://www2.owen.vanderbilt.edu/mike.shor/research/Async/Async.pdf
Internet Congestion: A Laboratory Experiment
Daniel Friedman, Bernardo Huberman
ACM SIGCOMM'04 Workshop on Practice and Theory of Incentives in Networked
Systems (PINS), August 2004
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2004/workshop_papers/pin03-friedman1.pdf