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Sharing the Cost of a Public Good without Subsidies
FLEURBAEY, Marc; SPRUMONT, Yves - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2006
We study the construction of a social ordering function for the case of a public good financed by contributions from the population, and we extend the analysis of Maniquet and Sprumont (2004) to the case when contributions cannot be negative, i.e. agents cannot receive subsidies from others.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005729796
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Priorities in the Location of Multiple Public Facilities
BOCHET, Olivier; GORDON, Sidartha - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2008
A collective decision problem is described by a set of agents, a profile of single-peaked preferences over the real line and a number k of public facilities to be located. We consider public facilities that do not su¤er from congestion and are non-excludable. We provide a characterization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005731967
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Priorities in the Location of Multiple Public Facilities
BOCHET, Olivier; GORDON, Sidartha - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2008
A collective decision problem is described by a set of agents, a profile of single-peaked preferences over the real line and a number k of public facilities to be located. We consider public facilities that do not su¤er from congestion and are non-excludable. We provide a characterization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008617066
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Sharing the Cost of a Public Good without Subsidies
FLEURBAEY, Marc; SPRUMONT, Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2006
We study the construction of a social ordering function for the case of a public good financed by contributions from the population, and we extend the analysis of Maniquet and Sprumont (2004) to the case when contributions cannot be negative, i.e. agents cannot receive subsidies from others.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008617085
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Efficiency in Uncertain Cooperative Games.
Bossert, W.; Derks, J.; Peters, H. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2001
A contingent contract in a transferable utility game under uncertainty specifies an outcome for each possible state. It is assumed that coalitions evaluate these contracts by considering the minimal possible excesses. A main question of the paper concerns the existence and characterization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005729546
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The Rationality of Revolution.
Dudley, L. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 1996
Did the recent transition to liberal democracy in Eastern Europe consitute revolutions? Here, game theory is used to structure an explanation of institutional change proposed by Harold Innis (1950).
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010616522
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Learning about a Class of Belief-Dependent Preferences without Information on Beliefs
Bellemare, Charles; Sebald, Alexander - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2011
which includes reciprocity (Dufwenberg and Kirchsteiger, 2004) and guilt aversion (Battigalli and Dufwenberg, 2007) as … effect of reciprocity in the games we consider. Our bounds suggest the model of reciprocity we consider is not a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278173
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Budget-Balance, Fairness and Minimal Manipulability
ANDERSSON, Tommy; EHLERS, Lars; SVENSSON, Lars-Gunnar - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2010
group of agents. Fairness requires that each agent weakly prefers his consumption bundle to any other agent’s bundle. Under … fairness, efficiency is equivalent to budget-balance (all the available money is allocated among the agents). Budget …-balance and fairness in general are incompatible with non-manipulability (Green and Laffont, 1979). We propose a new notion of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933673
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Social Choice: Recent Developments
BOSSERT, Walter; WEYMARK, J.A. - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2006
In the past quarter century, there has been a dramatic shift of focus in social choice theory, with structured sets of alternatives and restricted domains of the sort encountered in economic problems coming to the fore. This article provides an overview of some of the recent contributions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005353335
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Sharing the Cost of a Public Good: an Incentive-Constrained Axiomatic Approach
SPRUMONT, Yves; MANIQUET, François - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2006
partial, is possible. We search for incentive-constrained efficient allocation rules that display fairness properties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005353508