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The Paradox of Grading Systems
Brams, Steven; Potthoff, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
We distinguish between (i) voting systems in which voters can rank candidates and (ii) those in which they can grade … candidates, such as approval voting, in which voters can give two grades—approve (1) or not approve (0)—to candidates. While two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212580
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Non-reactive strategies in decision-form games
Carfì, David; Ricciardello, Angela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
contracting games. We, also, show that an equilibrium of a game survives iterated elimination of non-reactive strategies. At the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008866150
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On the Existence and Stability of Pareto Optimal Endogenous Matching with Fairness
Dai, Darong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
employing the stochastic replicator dynamics driven by Lévy process. A new game equilibrium, i.e., the game equilibrium of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110067
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On the existence and stability of Pareto optimal endogenous matching with fairness
Dai, Darong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
employing the stochastic replicator dynamics driven by Lévy process. A new game equilibrium, i.e., the game equilibrium of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110371
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On Feelings as a Heuristic for Making Offers in Ultimatum Negotiations
Stephen, Andrew T.; Pham, Michel Tuan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This research examines how the reliance on emotional feelings as a heuristic influences the proposal of offers in negotiations. Results from three experiments based on the classic ultimatum game show that, compared to proposers who do not rely on their feelings, proposers who rely on their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619835
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Learning to Make Strategic Moves: Experimental Evidence
Poulsen, Anders - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
. The experiment uses a simple bargaining situation. A player can make a strategic move of committing to not seeing what the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622106
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Property Rights and Market: Employee Privatization as a Cooperative Bargaining Process
Marco, Marini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
maximizing the per capita surplus over the wage. The privatization process is then described as a bargaining process between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148015
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On the Case for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Marina, Azzimonti; Marco, Battaglini; Stephen, Coate - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper uses the political economy model of Battaglini and Coate (2008) to analyze the impact of a balanced budget rule that requires that legislators do not run deficits. It considers both a strict rule which cannot be circumvented and a rule that can be overridden by a super-majority of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684865
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Mineral exploration as a game of chance
Bell, Peter N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Exploration is a costly activity that helps a business improve their understanding of a potential mineral deposit. Yet, even with strong exploration results, the business faces uncertainty over the value of the mine. I model this situation as a game of chance. The game starts by giving an agent...
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Mean-median compromise method as an innovating voting rule in social choice theory
Ngoie, Ruffin-Benoît M.; Ulungu, Berthold E.-L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper aims at presenting a new voting function which is obtained in Balinski-Laraki's framework and benefits mean …, neutrality, anonymity, monotonicity, and Arrow's independence of irrelevant alternatives. It also generalizes approval voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274903