eprintid: 14536 rev_number: 28 eprint_status: archive userid: 600 dir: disk0/00/01/45/36 datestamp: 2009-07-07 16:42:00 lastmod: 2015-07-23 09:36:20 status_changed: 2009-07-07 16:42:00 type: working_paper metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Harmgart, H. creators_name: Huck, S. creators_name: Muller, W. creators_id: creators_id: SHUCK00 creators_id: title: The miracle as a randomization device: a lesson from Richard Wagner's romantic opera Tannhauser und der Sankerkrieg auf Wartburg ispublished: pub subjects: 12000 subjects: 13200 divisions: F24 keywords: B11, C72, K14, Z11, Z12 abstract: In this paper we provide textual evidence on the sophistication of medieval deterrence strategies. Drawing on one of the great opera librettos based on medieval sources, Wagner’s Tannhäuser, we shall illustrate the use of optimal randomization strategies that can be derived by applying notions of dominance or trembling-hand perfection. Particular attention is paid to the employed randomization device. date: 2007-12 publisher: ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution official_url: http://else.econ.ucl.ac.uk/newweb/papers.php#2006 vfaculties: VSHS oa_status: green language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green lyricists_name: Huck, S lyricists_id: SHUCK00 full_text_status: public series: ELSE Working Papers number: 187 place_of_pub: London, UK citation: Harmgart, H.; Huck, S.; Muller, W.; (2007) The miracle as a randomization device: a lesson from Richard Wagner's romantic opera Tannhauser und der Sankerkrieg auf Wartburg. (ELSE Working Papers 187). ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution: London, UK. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/14536/1/14536.pdf