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The Last will be First, and the First Last : Segregation in Societies with Positional Externalities
Herings, P. Jean-Jacques - 2019
This paper studies coalition formation among individuals who differ in productivity. The output of a coalition is … determined by the sum of productivities if the coalition exceeds a minimal threshold of members. We consider competitive … societies in which the surplus of a coalition is split according to productivity and egalitarian societies in which coalitions …
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Measuring the Power of Nodes in Digraphs
Herings, P. Jean-Jacques; van der Laan, Gerard; Talman, Dolf - 2001
Many economic and social situations can be represented by a digraph. Both axiomatic and iterativemethods to determine the strength or power of all the nodes in a digraph have been proposed inthe literature. We propose a new method, where the power of a node is determined by both thenumber of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325076
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Persuasion as a contest
Skaperdas, Stergios; Vaidya, Samarth - 2007
From marketing and advertising to political campaigning and court proceedings, contending parties expend resources to persuade an audience of the correctness of their view. We examine how the probability of persuading the audience depends on the resources expended by the parties, so that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264260
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The inter-institutional distribution of power in EU codecision
Napel, Stefan; Widgrén, Mika - 2004
legislation of the European Union adopted under its codecision procedure. In contrast to studies which use conventional power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284909
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The right of withdrawal in the treaty of Lison : a game theoretic reflection on different decision processes in the EU
Lechner, Susanne (contributor); Ohr, Renate (contributor) - 2008
been more and more substituted by majority voting in order to speed up decision-making processes in a Union of 27 … member state threatens to leave the Union. By using cheap talk a member state may increase the credibility of its outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003776195
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The socially stable core in structured transferable utility games
Herings, Peter Jean-Jacques; Laan, Gerard van der; … - 2004
of players. The social structure is utilized to refine the core of the game. For every coalition the relative strength of … a player within that coalition is induced by the social structure and is measured by a power function. We call a payoff …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335223
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Bargaining and distribution of power in the EU's Conciliation Committee
Napel, Stefan; Widgrén, Mika - 2003
The European Union (EU) has moved towards bicameralism, making the codecision procedure its most important mechanism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509443
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The inter-institutional distribution of power in EU codecision
Napel, Stefan; Widgrén, Mika - 2004
legislation of the European Union adopted under its codecision procedure. In contrast to studies which use conventional power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261094
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Consuming Your Way to Efficiency : Public Goods Provision Through Non-Distortionary Tax Lotteries
Giebe, Thomas - 2013
We revisit the classical result that financing a pure public good through taxation of private consumption is inefficient. To this standard setup we add a consumption contest in which consumers can win a prize. We show that an appropriately chosen contest — which we call a ‘tax lottery' —...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082023
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Suckers, Punters, Pathbreakers : When Homo Oeconomicus is Selflessly Selfish
de Jasay, Anthony - 2013
Rational choice presupposes that people do what they like better than any available alternative. If, however, we mistrust what they declare to like or what psychology is supposed to tell us about it (a pardonable enough mistrust), we can only infer what they like from observing what they do. We...
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