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Measurement and Spatial Effects of the Immigrant Created Cultural Diversity in Sydney

Lalich, Walter F. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper analyses the contribution to the creation of a culturally diverse Sydney landscape by ethnic communities following the arrival of over a million and half non-English speaking settlers since 1948. Through fragmented collective actions, around 450 communal places were established to...

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Coordination in Networks Formation: Experimental Evidence on Learning and Salience

Galizzi, Matteo; Bernasconi, Michele - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

We present experiments on repeated non-cooperative network formation games, based on Bala and Goyal (2000). We treat … coordination problems. We conduct experiments under various conditions which control for salient labeling and learning dynamics …. Contrary to previous experiments, we find that coordination on non-empty Strict Nash equilibria is not an easy task for …

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Identity, Homophily and In-Group Bias

Currarini, Sergio; Menge, Friederike - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

School of Economics, University of Nottingham, University Park Campus and Department of Economics (AE1), Maastricht University

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Stability and Success of Regional Fisheries Management Organizations

Finus, Michael; Pintassilgo, Pedro; Lindroos, Marko; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

According to international law, straddling fish stocks should preferably be managed cooperatively through regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs). This paper analyzes the stability and success of these organizations through a game in partition function form based on the classical...

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Free-Riding in Tax Credits For Home Insulation in France: An Econometric Assessment Using Panel Data

Nauleau, Marie-Laure - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

This econometric study assesses the efficiency of the income tax credit system implemented in France in 2005 on households’ retrofitting investment decisions, focusing on insulation measures. A logit model with random individual effects is estimated using an unbalanced panel of 23,879...

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Group Decision-Making in the Shadow of Disagreement

Ray, Debraj; Eliaz, Kfir; Razin, Ronny - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

A model of group decision-making is studied, in which one of two alternatives must be chosen. While group members differ in their valuations of the alternatives, everybody prefers some alternative to disagreement. Our model is distinguished by three features: private information regarding...

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Evaluation of Parties and Coalitions After Parliamentary Elections

Tangian, Andranik - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

Five leading German political parties and their coalitions are evaluated with regard to party manifestos and results of the 2005 parliamentary elections. For this purpose, the party manifestos are converted into Yes/No answers to 95 topical questions (Relax the protection against dismissals?...

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Coalitional Matchings

Dimitrov, Dinko; Lazarova, Emiliya - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

A coalitional matching is a two-sided matching problem in which agents on each side of the market may form coalitions such as student groups and research teams who - when matched - form universities. We assume that each researcher has preferences over the research teams he would like to work in...

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Many-to-One Matching when Colleagues Matter

Revilla, Pablo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

This paper studies many-to-one matching market in which each agent’s preferences not only depend on the institution that hires her, but also on the group of her colleagues, which are matched to the same institution. With an unrestricted domain of preferences the non-emptiness of the core is...

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United We Vote

Eguia, Jon X. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper studies the advantages that a coalition of agents obtains by forming a voting bloc to pool their votes and cast them all together. We identify the necessary and sufficient conditions for an agent to benefit from the formation of the voting bloc, both if the agent is a member of the...

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