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Group decision-making in the shadow of disagreement
Eliaz, Kfir; Ray, Debraj; Razin, Ronny - 2004
A model of group decision-making is studied, in which one of two alternatives must be chosen. While group members differ in their valuations of the alternatives, everybody prefers some alternative to disagreement. Our model is distinguished by three features: private information regarding...
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Divide and conquer : noisy communication in networks, power, and wealth distribution
Pérez Oviedo, Wilson - 2004
In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600156
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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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An implementation approach to rotation programs
Korpela, Ville; Lombardi, Michele; Saulle, Riccardo D. - 2021
common-pool resources, and rotation procedures in fair division problems. We study rotation programs via the implementation … between two consecutive states. We provide characterizing conditions for the implementation in rotation programs and show that …, for multi-valued rules, our notion of rotation monotonicity is necessary and sufficient for implementation. Finally, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519973
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The political economy of emission tax design in environmental policy
Glachant, Matthieu - 2002
In actual environmental policy, the design of actual pollution emission taxes differs significantly with the optimal Pigovian tax. In particular, earmarking prevails and actual taxes are usually combined with regulation. Furthermore tax rates are generally too low to significantly influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598001
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Sequential sharing rules for river sharing problems
Ansink, Erik; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2009
We analyse the redistribution of a resource among agents who have claims to the resource and who are ordered linearly. A well known example of this particular situation is the river sharing problem. We exploit the linear order of agents to transform the river sharing problem to a sequence of...
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When do representative and direct democracies lead to similar policy choices?
Cukierman, Alex; Spiegel, Yossi - 1998
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The trade-off between deepening and broadening of democracy : lessons from youth enfranchisement
Koukal, Anna Maria; Schafer, Patricia; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2020
Broadening democracy by lowering the voting age is on the political agenda in many democratic societies. Previous … democracy proxied by the strength of direct democratic institutions and (ii) the size of the new electorate. Our results provide … democracy and affects citizens' willingness to lower the voting age. Moreover, we find systematic price reactions of present …
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Lobbying and the power of multinational firms
Polk, Andreas; Schmutzler, Armin; Müller, Adrian - 2010
Are national or multinational firms better lobbyists? This paper analyzes the extent of national environmental regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a government and firm. We compare the resulting regulation levels for national and multinational firms. We identify three...
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Veto players and policy trade-offs : an intertemporal approach to study the effects of political institutions on policy
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano; Stein, Ernesto - 2010
disputes that assertion from an intertemporal perspective, drawing from transaction cost economics and repeated game theory and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247136