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Public Good Provision: Using an Evolutionary Game Theoretic Approach to Modeling
Sandeshika, Sharma - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Public Goods Provision problem is studied using a new modeling tool which enables us to find various equilibria of the game, which are robust to any functional form specification.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008556307
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Promoting Competition or Helping Less-Endowed? An Experiment on Collective Institutional Choices under Intra-Group Inequality
Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Unequally-distributed resources, whether people’s income or competence, are ubiquitous in our real world. Whether to promote competition or to lead to a more equal environment is often in question in societies or organizations. With heterogeneous endowments, we let subjects collectively choose...
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What It Takes to Be a Leader: Leadership and Charisma in a Citizen-Candidate Model
Berdugo, Binyamin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper analyses leadership and charisma within the framework of social choice. In societies that lack formal institutional authorities, the power of leaders to coerce is limited. Under such conditions, we find that social outcomes will depend not only on policy preferences but also on how a...
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Some Inquiries to Spontaneous Opinions: A case with Twitter in Indonesia
Maulana, Ardian; Situngkir, Hokky - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper discusses opportunities to utilize the series of micro-blogs as provided by the Twitter in observation of opinion dynamics. The spontaneity of tweets is more, as the service is attached more to the mobile communications. The extraction of information in the series of tweets is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695068
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Deeper Integration and Voting on the Common European External Tariff
Tavares, Samia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Since the 1987 Single European Act, the European Union has deepened its integration process. In the case of the determination of the common external tariff, deeper integration implies that the tariff reflected union-wide preferences. If integration is still shallow, though, the observed tariff...
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The Common External Tariff in a Customs Union: Voting, Logrolling, and National Government Interests
Tavares, Samia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Missing from the analysis of customs unions has been a consideration of collective decisionmaking by countries regarding the union’s common trade policy. In the case of the common European external tariff, how governments voted was not public information. This paper uses a unique dataset to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623283
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The Canada economic action plan as electoral tool
Chandler, Vincent - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper models the distribution of pork barrel when the electoral benefit of pork does not accrue to the party in … power but to the incumbent of the district where the pork was directed. The model shows that, under certain parametres, more … pork goes to core support districts. To verify this claim empirically, I first study the distribution of projects …
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House allocation with fractional endowments
Athanassoglou, Stergios; Sethuraman, Jay - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper studies a generalization of the well known house allocation problem in which agents may own fractions of different houses summing to an arbitrary quantity, but have use for only the equivalent of one unit of a house. It departs from the classical model by assuming that arbitrary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490107
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Games of capacity allocation in many-to-one matching with an aftermarket
Mumcu, Ayse; Saglam, Ismail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this paper, we study many-to-one matching (hospital-intern markets) with an aftermarket. We analyze the Nash equilibria of capacity allocation games, in which preferences of hospitals and interns are common knowledge and every hospital determines a quota for the regular market given its total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619519
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Student Placement in Egyptian Colleges
Selim, Tarek; Salem, Sherif - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We study students placement in Egyptian colleges under the current demand/supply placement mechanism implemented in Egypt (e-mechanism). We show that the e-mechanism is not Pareto efficient nor strategy proof and, moreover, it can not be improved to accommodate Pareto efficiency nor strategy...
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