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Strategy-proof social choice
Barberà, Salvador - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010
This paper surveys the literature on strategy-proofness from a historical perspective. While I discuss the connections with other works on incentives in mechanism design, the main emphasis is on social choice models. This article has been prepared for the Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010773120
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Strategy-proof social choice
Barberà, Salvador - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2010
This paper surveys the literature on strategy-proofness from a historical perspective. While I discuss the connections with other works on incentives in mechanism design, the main emphasis is on social choice models. This article has been prepared for the Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008584608
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Voting on Punishment Systems within a Heterogeneous Group
Noussair, Charles; Tan, Fangfang - CESifo - 2009
productivity. Nevertheless, only a minority of sessions converge to this system, indicating a tendency for the voting process to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013941
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Voting on Punishment Systems Within a Heterogeneous Group
Noussair, Charles; Tan, F. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009
productivity. Nevertheless, only a minority of sessions converge to this system, indicating a tendency for the voting process to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092305
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Assessing the extent of strategic manipulation for the average voting rule
Renault, Régis; Trannoy, Alain - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2004
The average voting procedure reflects the weighted average of expressed opinions in [0,1]. Participants typically … taste is central enough, the range of possible values for the average voting outcome is narrower than the corresponding … range for majority voting. For instance, if the average taste is at 1/2, the limit equilibrium outcome is this value plus or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292385
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Assessing the extent of strategic manipulation: the average vote example
Trannoy, Alain; Renault, Régis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
The average voting procedure reflects the weighted average of expressed opinions in [0,1]. Participants typically … taste is central enough, the range of possible values for the average voting outcome is narrower than the corresponding … range for majority voting. For instance, if the average taste is at 1/2, the limit equilibrium outcome is this value plus or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166480
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Protecting minorities through the average voting rules
Renault, Régis; Trannoy, Alain - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2003
Properties of an average voting rule - the outcome being some weighted average of votes – are investigated, with … particular attention to its ability to protect minorities. The unique average voting outcome is characterized with a median … protected by a switch in voting rule if the voting outcome becomes closer to the median bliss point of the minority. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005512019
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Who will be idol? The importance of social networks for winning on reality shows
Heizler (Cohen), Odelia; Kimhi, Ayal - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 1, pp. 18-25
This paper examines, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of social networks and belonging to minority groups (or race) on the probability of winning in reality television shows. We develop a theoretical model that studies viewer behavior by presenting a framework of competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011120404
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Who Will Be Idol? The Importance of Social Networks for Winning on Reality Shows
Heizler (Cohen), Odelia; Kimhi, Ayal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper examines, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of social networks and belonging to minority groups (or race) on the probability of winning in reality television shows. We develop a theoretical model that studies viewer behavior by presenting a framework of competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466030
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“Honey, I shrunk the kids’ benefits!” — Revisiting intergenerational conflict in OECD countries.
Krieger, Tim; Ruhose, Jens - Department Volkswirtschaftslehre, Fachbereich für … - 2011
Intergenerational conflicts may arise when interests of different age groups do not align. We examine cross-country data to find evidence for this conflict in OECD countries. We derive our results from a FGLS estimation model, which is complemented by a System-GMM estimation. Data covers a panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010902043