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Why voting? : a welfare analysis ; conference paper
Drexl, Moritz; Kleiner, Andreas - 2013 - This version: July 2013
Which decision rule should we use to make a binary collective choice? While voting procedures are applied ubiquitously … qualified majority voting. Our result shows that using a VCG mechanism is not superior to voting in general and justifies the … use of voting mechanisms. It thereby could explain why many decision rules employed in practice do not rely on monetary …
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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, 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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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...
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Voting as a war of attrition
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of...
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Changes in voter bias in the associated press college football poll
Coleman, B. J.; Gallo, Andrés Alberto; Mason, Paul M.; … - In: Applied economics letters 31 (2024) 11, pp. 1045-1048
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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
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Choosing the type of income-contingent loan: risk-sharing versus risk-pooling
Rey, Elena Del; Racionero, María - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2014
risk-pooling income-contingent loan is preferred. The paper then discusses the implications on participation and voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752419
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"A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis of the Political Economy of Public Education."
Soares, Jorge - Department of Economics, Lerner College of Business and … - 2005
The primary objective of this paper is to highlight the distinct roles of altruism and of self-interest in the political determination of a public education policy. I assess the relative importance of three factors in the determination of the equilibrium level of this policy: altruism, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487490