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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.

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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...

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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...

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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 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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Two-Sided Matchings: An Algorithm for Ensuring They Are Minimax and Pareto-Optimal

Steven, Brams; Marc, Kilgour - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Gale and Shapley (1962) proposed the deferred-acceptance algorithm for matching (i) college applicants and colleges and (ii) men and women. In the case of the latter, it produces either one or two stable matches whereby no man and woman would prefer to be matched with each other rather than with...

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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...

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College Admissions Game: Early Action or Early Decision?

Mumcu, Ayse; Saglam, Ismail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In this paper, we study the long-played, yet until now unmodeled, college admissions game over early admissions plans using a many-to-one matching framework. We characterize the equilibrium strategies of each college involving its early quota out of its total capacity, and the set of admissible...

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