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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083144
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Mechanism Design with Multidimensional, Continuous Types and Interdependent Valuations
Miller, Nolan H. - 2008
We consider the mechanism design problem when agents' types are multidimensional and continuous, and their valuations are interdependent. If there are at least three agents whose types satisfy a weak correlation condition, then for any decision rule there exist balanced transfers that render...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012726866
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Increasing Altruistic and Cooperative Behaviour with Simple Moral Nudges
Capraro, Valerio - 2019
The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example, the reduction of air pollution and the redistribution of scarce resources. For the well-being of our societies, it is thus crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900728
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Gender Differences in Altruism on Mechanical Turk : Expectations and Actual Behaviour
Brañas-Garza, Pablo - 2018
Whether or not there are gender differences in altruistic behaviour in Dictator Game experiments has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Earlier studies found women to be more altruistic than men. However, this conclusion has been challenged by more recent accounts, which have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936008
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Gender Differences in the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off
Capraro, Valerio - 2019
Gender differences in human behaviour have attracted generations of social scientists, who have explored whether males and females act differently in domains involving competition, risk taking, cooperation, altruism, honesty, as well as many others. Yet, little is known about gender differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870841