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Euclidean preferences, option sets and strategyproofness
Bordes, Georges; Laffond, Gilbert; Le Breton, Michel - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 4, pp. 469-483
In this note, we use the technique of option sets to sort out the implications of coalitional strategyproofness in the spatial setting. We also discuss related issues and open problems.
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Preferences, actions and voting rules
Artabe, Alaitz; Laruelle, Annick; Valenciano, Federico - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 1/2, pp. 15-28
In this paper we address several issues related to collective dichotomous decision-making by means of quaternary voting … aggregated by a voting rule into a dichotomous decision: acceptance or rejection of a proposal. In particular we study the links … rules, i.e., when voters may choose between four actions: voting yes, voting no, abstaining and not turning up-which are …
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Science and Ideology in Economic, Political and Social Thought
Hillinger, Claude - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-2, pp. 1-70
This paper has two sources: One is my own research in three broad areas: business cycles, economic measurement and social choice. In all of these fields I attempted to apply the basic precepts of the scientific method as it is understood in the natural sciences. I found that my effort at using...
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An individual manipulability of positional voting rules
Aleskerov, Fuad; Karabekyan, Daniel; Sanver, M. Remzi; … - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 4, pp. 431-446
estimate the degree of manipulability of ten positional voting rules in the case of multiple choice for 3 and 4 alternatives. …
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The impact of formal decision processes on e-Government projects
Sundberg, Leif; Larsson, Aron - In: Administrative Sciences 7 (2017) 2, pp. 1-12
This paper studies associations between the use of formal decision-making processes in e-Government projects and the … outcomes of these projects. By doing so, this study contributes to the decision sciences as well as to the fields of e … reveal that successful projects distinguish themselves by involving more activities related to formal decision …
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On the political decision of audit market regulation: Empirical evidence of audit firm tenure and maximum durations within the European Union
Widmann, Markus; Follert, Florian; Wolz, Matthias - In: Economies 9 (2021) 2, pp. 1-24
After almost every economic crisis and corporate scandal, political actors announce the need for stricter regulatory measures for financial markets and companies, in an attempt to appease their voters and defend their political agenda. Regarding the latest international financial crisis, the EU...
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Dialectical conditions: Leadership structures as productive action generators
Martin, Albert - In: Management Revue 17 (2006) 4, pp. 395-419
This article introduces a model of productive leadership structures. It is based on the idea that structures should stimulate dialectical processes which activate functional and simultaneously restrict dysfunctional behavioural tendencies of the management team. The structural dialectics are...
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Strategy-proof voting rules on a multidimensional policy space for a continuum of voters with elliptic preferences
Peters, Hans; Roy, Souvik; Storcken, Ton - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 4, pp. 485-496
We consider voting rules on a multidimensional policy space for a continuum of voters with elliptic preferences …
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The division problem with maximal capacity constraints
Bergantiños, Gustavo; Massó, Jordi; Neme, Alejandro - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 1/2, pp. 29-57
The division problem consists of allocating a given amount of an homogeneous and perfectly divisible good among a group of agents with singlepeaked preferences on the set of their potential shares. A rule proposes a vector of shares for each division problem. Most of the literature has...
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Führt fiskalische Äquivalenz zu einer effizienten Allokation? Die Rolle von Mehrheitsabstimmungen
Borck, Rainald - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 72 (2003) 3, pp. 444-457
Der Beitrag untersucht die Wirkung von fiskalischer Äquivalenz bei Mehrheitsentscheiden. Betrachtet wird die Bereitstellung von öffentlichen Gütern mit Spillover-Effekten. Fiskalische Äquivalenz wird dabei so interpretiert, dass alle von der Bereitstellung profitierenden Bürger auch über...
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