Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 361
Cover Image
To vote or to abstain? An experimental study or first past the poste and PR elections
Blais, André; Pilet, Jean-Benoît; Straeten, Karine Van Der - HAL - 2011
We examine through an experimental design how rational and non-rational considerations affect the decision to vote or to abstain in First Past the Post and PR elections. We show that in both types of elections, but particularly so under PR, a majority of subjects do not make the "right"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295309
Cover Image
National Politics and International Agreements
Kempf, Hubert; Rossignol, Stéphane - HAL - 2010
International agreements about transnational issues are difficult to reach, as the examples of the Copenhagen summit or the never-ending discussions of the future of the European Union make clear. In this paper, we relate this difficulty to the political process and the conflicts of interest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603649
Cover Image
Committee decisions: Optimality and Equilibrium
Laslier, Jean-François; Weibull, Jörgen - HAL - 2008
different values to the two types of mistake that may occur. Most voting rules have a plethora of uninformative equilibria, and … informative voting may be incompatible with equilibrium. We analyze an anonymous randomized majority rule that has a unique … under certain perturbations of the behavioral assumptions: (i) a slight preference for voting according to one's conviction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793596
Cover Image
Judge:Don't Vote!
Balinski, Michel; Laraki, Rida - HAL - 2010
This article explains why the traditional model of the theory of social choice misrepresents reality, it cannot lead to acceptable methods of ranking and electing in any case, and a more realistic model leads inevitably to one method of ranking and electing—majority judgment—that best meets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793943
Cover Image
Who's Favored by Evaluative Voting? An Experiment Conducted During the 2012 French Presidential Election
Baujard, Antoinette; Gavrel, Frédéric; Igersheim, Herrade - HAL - 2013
Under evaluative voting, the voter freely grades each candidate on a numerical scale, with the winning candidate being … determined by the sum of the grades they receive. This paper compares evaluative voting with the two-round system, reporting on … evaluative voting rules, and the specific pattern of strategic voting under the official, two-round voting rule. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026210
Cover Image
Monetary Policy Switching in the Euro Area and Multiple Equilibria: An Empirical Investigation
Dufrénot, Gilles; Khayat, Anwar - HAL - 2014
This paper provides evidence that the European Central Bank (ECB) has adjusted its interest rate since 1999 nonlinearly according to the macroeconomic and financial environment in the euro zone. Its policy function is described by a Taylor rule with regime shifts implying that the stance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933828
Cover Image
The role of money and monetary policy in crisis periods: the Euro area case
Benchimol, Jonathan; Fourçans, André - HAL - 2012
In this paper, we test two models of the Eurozone, with a special emphasis on the role of money and monetary policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651555
Cover Image
Is this all "Greek" in Europe ? Critical evaluation of the Euro zone policy response to debt crises
Ghani, Shazia - HAL - 2011
Eurozone is going though the worst ever crises since the adoption of the common currency in 1999. In the aftermath of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368002
Cover Image
Business surveys modelling with Seasonal-Cyclical Long Memory models
Ferrara, Laurent; Guegan, Dominique - HAL - 2008
Business surveys are an important element in the analysis of the short-term economic situation because of the timeliness and nature of the information they convey. Especially, surveys are often involved in econometric models in order to provide an early assessment of the current state of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750631
Cover Image
Monetary policy transmission in the euro area: New evidence from micro data on firms and banks
Chatelain, Jean-Bernard; Generale, Andrea; Vermeulen, Philip - HAL - 2003
This paper presents an overview of the results of a research project on monetary transmission pursued by the Eurosystem, which has analysed micro data on firms and banks in several countries of the euro area in great detail. There is strong empirical support for an interest rate channel working...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750800