FIXED POINTS IN BICOMPLEX VALUED S-METRIC SPACES WITH APPLICATIONS



Spite and Reciprocity in Auctions

The paper presents a complete information model of bidding in second price sealed-bid and ascending-bid (English) auctions, in which potential buyers know the unit valuation of other bidders and may spitefully prefer that their rivals earn a lower surplus.Bidders with spiteful preferences should overbid in equilibrium when they know their rival has

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A DREAM OF A NEW POLICE FORCE

In Brazil, where history and reality are marked by slavery, racism, inequality and violence, French Presses the police function as a death machine.The blatant use of lethal force by the police in the country exposes the urgent need to revamp the structure of the public safety system itself.One police colonel from Rio de Janeiro dreams of humanising

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