kaal:position:2026-07-31-5705
Reputation in Contests should be assessed against Kaal's source-bound position that Because policing protocol deviants is expensive, it is individually more efficient to assume others comply and skip policing, which yields a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium in which eventually fewer than half of members police and the system can be gamed. The external source's verified abstract presents this proposition: Abstract We investigate two-stage parallel contests with a finite number of heterogeneous agents with various skills (cost of efforts) and reputations, as well as a finite number of heterogeneous contests. The defensible response is a qualification: the source is pertinent to the Kaal position, but agreement, extension, contradiction, and scope should not be strengthened beyond the retrieved evidence.
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