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Decentralization and electoral accountability: incentives, separation, and voter welfare

HINDRIKS, Jean; LOCKWOOD, Ben - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2005

public good spillovers or economies of scale, so that absent elections, voters are indifferent about the fiscal regime. The …

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Strategic Candidacy and Voting Procedures.

Dutta, B.; Jackson, M.O.; Le Breton, M. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1999

This paper studies the impact of considering the incentives of candidates to strategically affect the outcome of a voting procedure. First we show that every non-dictatorial voting procedure that satisfies unanimity, is open to strategic entry or exit by candidates: there necessarily exists some...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669337

EQUILIBRIA IN MULTI-PARTY COMPETITION UNDER UNCERTAINTY.

DE PALMA, A.; HONG, G-S.; THISSE, J-F. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1988

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Voting for Voters: a Model of Electoral Evolution.

Barbera, S.; Maschler, M.; Shalev, J. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1998

We model the decision problems faced by the members of societies whose new members are determined by vote. We adopt a number of simplifying assumptions. In spite of these simplifications, we show that interesting strategic behavior is implied by the dynamic structure of the problem: the vote for...

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Does inequality make us rebel? A renewed theoretical model applied to South Mexico

MAYSTADT, Jean-François - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2007

Since Collier and Hoeffler (1998, 2004), it has been supported that inequality, measured at national level, does not affect the risk of conflict. Based on a renewed theoretical framework, the purpose of the paper is to explore the role of inequality in localized conflicts. We argue that previous...

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Large elections with multiple alternatives: a Condorcet Jury Theorem and inefficient equilibria

GOERTZ, Johanna; MANIQUET, François - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2013

We investigate whether the plurality rule aggregates information efficiently in large elections with multiple … imprecise private signals about the state of nature prior to the election. Similar to two-alternative elections (e.g., Myer- son …, we identify new types of coordination failures in elections with more than two alternatives that lead to new types of …

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Equilibrium in secure strategies

iskakov, Mikhail; ISKAKOV, Alexey - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2012

A new concept of equilibrium in secure strategies (EinSS) in non-cooperative games is presented. The EinSS coincides with the Nash-Cournot Equilibrium when Nash-Cournot Equilibrium exists and postulates the incentive of players to maximize their profit under the condition of security against...

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Equilibria in secure strategies in the Tullock contest

ISKAKOV, Mikhail; ISKAKOV, Alexey; ZAKHAROV, Alexey - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2014

It is well known that a pure-strategy Nash equilibrium does not exist for a two-player rent-seeking contest when the contest success function parameter is greater than two. We analyze the contest using the concept of equilibrium in secure strategies, which is a generalization of the Nash...

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Environmental maintenance in a dynamic model with heterogenous agents

BORISSOV, Kirill; BRECHET, Thierry; LAMBRECHT, Stéphane - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2012

We assume a population of infinitely-lived households of the economy split into two groups : one with a high discount factor (the patient) and one with a low one (the impatient). The environmental quality is deteriorated by firm's polluting emissions. The governmental policy consists in...

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Voting over piece-wise linear tax methods

MORENO-TERNERO, Juan D. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2010

We analyze the problem of choosing the most appropriate method for apportioning taxes in a democracy. We consider a simple theoretical model of taxation and restrict our attention to piece-wise linear tax methods, which are almost ubiquitous in advanced democracies world- wide. We show that if...

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