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"Our focus in this paper is with the transaction costs inherent in most decision making settings. We specifically investigate an "institution free" collective choice mechanism that includes costs to calling votes. A set of models show that under low costs (i.e., where no cost-induced equilibrium...
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address some of the ways in which my attempts to use resource management models of common property theory have left me unable … 'the commons' is taken to mean. A brief overview of a new theory of commodification is presented, and through this it will … characterized as environments of enclosure, thus providing us with far greater explanatory power than the limiting models of …
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endogenously via a democratic voting process. The focus is on two public spending categories: productive government expenditure … satisfies the preferences of the elderly. Population aging shifts political power from the young to the old. While this does not …
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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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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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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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In this paper, we study committee decision making process using game theory. By a committee, we mean any group of … 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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.Obwohl also Macht und Mikropolitik so gut wie immer ganz zentrale erkl?rende Variablen des Handels in Organisationen darstellen … theoretischer Bezugsrahmen (aufbauend auf der ? zugespitzten ? Figurations- und Proze?theorie von Norbert ELIAS) entwickelt und mit … often bitterly sobering. "Unwillingness to change" combined with "prevailing power-structures" are repetitively given …
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The incremental costs of corrective measures to lessen the environmental impacts of the hydroelectric system are expected to increase and difficult questions to arise about the costs, effectiveness, and justification of alternative measures and their systemwide implications. The BPA anticipate...
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