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Multilateral bargaining in networks : on the prevalence of inefficiencies
Lee, Joosung - 2015
We introduce a noncooperative multilateral bargaining model for a network-restricted environment, in which players can … communicate only with their neighbors. Each player strategically chooses the bargaining partners among the neighbors to buy out …
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Bargaining and power
Karos, Dominik - 2013
new power configuration which takes into account bargaining among players in coalitions. We show that under very weak … conditions on a bargaining solution there is a power configuration which is stable with respect to renegotiations. We further … different bargaining solutions on apex games and show under which conditions there are core stable coalitions. Finally, we …
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Bargaining to lose the global commons
Chichilnisky-Heal, Natasha; Chichilnisky, Graciela - 2015
In "Bargaining to Lose: The Permeability Approach to Post Transition Resource Extraction" [1] Natasha Chichilnisky … state as a decision maker having the public good as an objective, and replaces it by the results of a bargaining game … of copper and gold mines in Mongolia and Zambia, and focuses on a bargaining game between the state and key financial …
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Status-seeking in hedonic games with heterogeneous players
Lazarova, Emiliya A.; Dimitrov, Dinko - 2010
We study hedonic games with heterogeneous player types that reflect her nationality, ethnic background, or skill type. Agents' preferences are dictated by status-seeking where status can be either local or global. The two dimensions of status define the two components of a generalized constant...
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Paths to stability in two-sided matching with uncertainty
Lazarova, Emiliya A.; Dimitrov, Dinko - 2013
We consider one-to-one matching problems under two modalities of uncertainty that differ in the way types are assigned to agents. Individuals have preferences over the possible types of the agents from the opposite market side and initially know the "name" but not the "type" of the other...
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On the nonemptiness of approximate cores of large games
Allouch, Nizar; Wooders, Myrna Holtz - 2014
We provide a new proof of the non-emptiness of approximate cores of games with many players of a finite number of types. Earlier papers in the literature proceed by showing that, for games with many players, equal-treatment cores of their "balanced cover games", which are non-empty, can be...
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Single-peakedness and disconnected coalitions
Brams, Steven J.; Jones, Michael A.; Kilgour, D. Marc - 2002
Ordinally single-peaked preferences are distinguished from cardinally single-peaked preferences, in which all players have a similar perception of distances in some one-dimensional ordering. While ordinal single-peakedness can lead to disconnected coalitions that have a "hole" in the ordering,...
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Media and social capital
Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea - 2021
We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital, from social and political participation to interpersonal...
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On the weights of nations : assigning voting weights in a heterogeneous union
Barberà, Salvador; Jackson, Matthew O. - 2004
Consider a voting procedure where countries, states, or districts comprising a union each elect representatives who then participate in later votes at the union level on their behalf. The countries, provinces, and states may vary in their populations and composition. If we wish to maximize the...
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Social interactions and female voting in rural Paraguay : the role of urbanization patterns on the effectiveness of GOVT campaigns
Chong, Alberto; León, Gianmarco; Roza, Vivian; … - 2018
We use a field experiment to evaluate the impact of two informational get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaigns to boost female electoral participation in Paraguay. We find that public campaigns had no effect either on the probability of registration, or on voter turnout in the 2013 presidential...
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