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Costly Voting: Theoretical and Experimental Results on Commons Dilemmas in Spatial Committee Games

Wilson, Rick K.; Herzberg, Roberta; Elliott, Mark - 1993

experimental manipulations are implemented to test various aspects of this model. These experiments use five-person committees with …

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On Committee Decision Making: A Game Theoretical Approach

Shenoy, Prakash P. - 1980

people who have to pick one option from a given set of alternatives. A well defined voting rule is specified by which the …

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A Study to Determine the Effectiveness of Agriculture/Natural Resource Program Area Committees on the Texas AgriLife Extension Service Program Planning Process

Weems, Whit Holland - 2011

volunteers have been utilized in Extension for over 50 years, serving on program area committees to develop programs that meet … program area committees. However, 42 percent of the respondents disagreed or remained neutral to subject matter specialists … education as a motivational factor for serving on the Ag/NR committees. Committee members feel strongly about assisting with …

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Equilibrium Results in Committee Settings: Theory and Experiments on Decision Costs

Herzberg, Roberta; Wilson, Rick K. - 1987

"In this paper we formulate a cost-induced equilibrium concept. This equilibrium is generated from transaction costs connected with a sequential agenda process. Our claim is that most collective choice Institutions carry with them decision costs. If these transaction costs are very large, they...

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Essays on the Theory of Productive Government Activity and Economic Growth

Kühnel, Johanna - 2010

endogenously via a democratic voting process. The focus is on two public spending categories: productive government expenditure …

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Endogenous Property Rights Regimes, Common Property Resources and Trade Policies

Galinato, Gregmar Ignacio - 2006

the use of their resource stock via a voting mechanism. Then, the impact of opening to trade is linked to the choice of …

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A political economy perspective on persistent inequality, inflation, and redistribution

Lahiri, Radhika; Ratnasiri, Shyama - 2010

In this paper we examine the dynamics of the link between inequality and inflation from a political economy perspective. We consider a simple dynamic general equilibrium model in which agents vote over the desired inflation rate in each period, and inequality is persistent. Inflation in our...

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Women’s representation in politics : voter bias, party bias, and electoral systems

González Eiras, Martín; Sanz, Carlos

Estudiamos cómo afecta el sistema electoral a la presencia de mujeres en política usando un modelo en el que tanto los votantes como los partidos pueden tener un sesgo de género. Aplicamos el modelo a las elecciones municipales españolas, en las que, según la ley, los municipios utilizan...

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The Impacts of Shopbots on Online Consumer Search

Zhang, Jennifer; Jing, Bing - University of Texas at Arlington; Cheung Kong Graduate … - 2007

Online price comparison agents (shopbots) allow consumers toinstantaneously receive price and other information from many onlineretailers. Online consumer clickstream data from ComScore Inc.demonstrate that consumers are increasingly using shopbots to conductsearch. This phenomenon raises such...

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Sequential Search With Ordinal Ranks and Cardinal Values: An Infinite Discounted Secretary Problem

Palley, Asa Benjamin - 2009

We consider an extension of the classical secretary problem where a decision maker observes only the relative ranks of a sequence of up to N applicants, whose true values are i.i.d. U[0,1] random variables. Applicants arrive according to a homogeneous Poisson Process, and the decision maker...

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