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Picking the Winners
Amorós, Pablo - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2010
We analyze the problem of choosing the w contestants who will win a competition within a group of n w competitors when all jurors commonly observe who the w best contestants are, but they may be biased. We study conditions on the configuration of the jury so that it is possible to induce the...
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A matter of time? Analyzing the efficiency of individual tournament formats by Monte Carlo simulation
Blanka, Dobránszky; Balázs Róbert, Sziklai - 2019
The chosen tournament format has a fundamental impact on the popularity and success of a sport. Efficiency of a format … describes how well it can reproduce the real but hidden power ranking of the participants. We compare the efficiency of the …. deviation on a spectrum and compute various efficiency measures. The difference between the efficiency of the two formats is …
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A matter of time? : Analyzing the efficiency of individual tournament formats by Monte Carlo simulation
Blanka, Dobránszky; Balázs Róbert, Sziklai - 2019
The chosen tournament format has a fundamental impact on the popularity and success of a sport. Efficiency of a format … describes how well it can reproduce the real but hidden power ranking of the participants. We compare the efficiency of the …. deviation on a spectrum and compute various efficiency measures. The difference between the efficiency of the two formats is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012125547
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Voting by Committees with Exit
Berga, Dolors; Gustavo Berganti?s; Jordi … - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2002
We study the problem of a society choosing a subset of new members from a finite set of candidates (as in Barber?Sonnenschein, and Zhou, 1991). However, we explicitly consider the possibility that initial members of the society (founders) may want to leave it if they do not like the resulting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005582717
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Deciding Whether a Law is Constitutional, Interpretable, or Unconstitutional
Amorós, Pablo; Martínez, Ricardo; Moreno, Bernardo; … - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2010
A high court has to decide whether a law is constitutional, un- constitutional, or interpretable. The voting system is runoff. Runoff voting systems can be interpreted both, as social choice functions or as mechanisms. It is known that, for universal domains of preferences, runoff voting systems...
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A natural mechanism to choose the deserving winner when the jury is made up of all contestants
Amorós, Pablo - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2010
We analyze the problem of a jury choosing the winner from a set of agents when the identity of the deserving winner is common knowledge amongst the jurors but each juror is biased in favor of one di¤erent agent. We propose a simple and natural mechanism that implements the socially optimal rule...
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Rational Expectation Can Preclude Trades
Matsuhisa, Takashi; Ishikawa, Ryuichiro - Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University - 2003
We consider a pure exchange economy under uncertainty in which the traders have the non-partition structure of information. They willing to trade the amounts of state-contingent commodities and they know their own expectations. Common knowledge of these conditions among all the traders can...
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A munkanélküli-jövedelemtámogatások célzása Magyarországon 2004-ben
Galasi, Péter; Nagy, Gyula - 2008
Using the 2004 income survey of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office we consider the targeting of two types of unemployment-related benefits: a) unemployment insurance and re-training benefits and b) the unemloyment assistance (UA). The evidence suggests that unemployment-related benefits...
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Munkahely a közszférában: Biztonság és hivatás, a szubjektív szempontok szerepe
Molnár, György; Kapitány, Zsuzsa - 2013
Sorting into public sector jobs may be motivated not only by the available income but also by other aspects, such as stronger demand for security or for social usefulness. The demand for larger job security - beside other factors - can be the consequence of family circumstances. We have...
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A munkanélküli-jövedelemtámogatások célzása Magyarországon 2004-ben
Galasi, Péter (contributor); Nagy, Gyula (contributor) - 2008
Using the 2004 income survey of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office we consider the targeting of two types of unemployment-related benefits: a) unemployment insurance and re-training benefits and b) the unemloyment assistance (UA). The evidence suggests that unemployment-related benefits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719279