8 papers
Changing the Game: Status-Quo Inertia, Institutional Design, and Equilibrium Transition
Madjid Eshaghi Gordji, Esmaiel Abounoori, Mohamadali Berahman
Many economic interventions are designed as marginal changes in incentives. Yet in environments shaped by coordination, institutional persistence, and path dependence, such reforms…
Why Efficient Reforms Fail: Endogenous Game Transformation under Status Quo Bias and Social Preferences
Madjid Eshaghi Gordji, Mohammadali Berahman, Hasti Eshaghi
Why do societies remain stuck in inferior institutions even when superior al ternatives are widely recognized? This paper develops a model in which agents choose not only actions w…
Strategic Inertia and Institutional Change:A Behavioral Model of Price Reforms versus Action Deletion
Madjid Eshaghi Gordji, Mohammadali Berahman, Hasti Eshaghi
Why do inefficient practices, technologies, or institutions persist even when su perior alternatives are available? This paper introduces a quantal response equilib rium with statu…
Breaking Status-Quo Inertia in Living Temporal Games: Dynamic Intervention, Implementation, and Structural Design
Madjid Eshaghi Gordji, Ali Jabbari, Mohammad Ali Berahman +1
Westudy how a planner can design dynamic interventions to overcome status-quo inertia in living temporal games, where strategic agents control their state (active, sleep, partially…
Meta-Bayesian Nash Equilibrium: Existence via Kakutani's Fixed Point Theorem
Madjid Eshaghi Gordji, Esmaiel Abounoori, Mohamadali Berahman
We extend the concept of meta-Nash equilibrium, introduced by Eshaghi Gordji and Bagha [2026] for complete-information games, to environments with incomplete information. We define…
Compound Attrition Games: A Unified Model for Inter- and Intra-Coalition Rivalry
Madjid Eshaghi Gordji, Mohamad Ali Berahman
Strategic competitions in the real world, from wars to geopolitical rivalries, often involve coalitions competing against rival groups. These contests are not simple interactions b…