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A general framework for rational learning in social networks

Mueller-Frank, Manuel - In: Theoretical Economics 8 (2013) 1, pp. 1-40

rational learning leads to global consensus, local indifference and local disagreement are characterized. In the general …

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Un modelo de consenso para problemas de toma de decisiones multicriterio en grupo mediante relaciones de preferencia intervalares difusas lingüísticas

Tapia García, Juan Miguel; del Moral, María José; … - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 14 (2012), pp. 36-53

consensus model for group decision making problems with interval fuzzy preference relations. This model is based on two … consensus criteria, a consensus measure and a proximity measure, and on the concept of coincidence among preferences. We compute … both consensus criteria in the three representation levels of a preference relation and design an automatic feedback …

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Joint audit and accuracy of the auditor's report: An empirical study

Baldauf, Julia; Steckel, Rudolf - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 5 (2012) 2, pp. 7-42

This study examines the effects of a joint audit on auditor's report consensus and accuracy. We investigate whether a … auditor consensus in the auditor's report. We also use an expected opinion, which we believe is appropriate in the defined … that auditors who use a joint audit approach achieve higher consensus and greater accuracy. In light of current discussion …

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A general analysis of boundedly rational learning in social networks

Mueller-Frank, Manuel; Neri, Claudia - In: Theoretical Economics 16 (2021) 1, pp. 317-357

We analyze boundedly rational learning in social networks within binary action environments. We establish how learning outcomes depend on the environment (i.e., informational structure, utility function), the axioms imposed on the updating behavior, and the network structure. In particular, we...

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Consensus towards partially cooperative strategies in self-regulated evolutionary games on networks

Madeo, Dario; Mocenni, Chiara - In: Games 12 (2021) 3, pp. 1-16

Cooperation is widely recognized to be fundamental for the well-balanced development of human societies. Several different approaches have been proposed to explain the emergence of cooperation in populations of individuals playing the Prisoner's Dilemma game, characterized by two concurrent...

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Institutional gaps in agonistic and communicative planning theories: Critical implications of the systemic turn" in deliberative democracy theory

Mäntysalo, Raine; Mattila, Hanna; Hirvola, Aino - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 81 (2023) 5, pp. 437-448

The paper critically reviews communicative and agonistic planning theories from the viewpoint of a systemic turn in deliberative democracy theory. While the approach reveals complementarities between the theories, it also argues that each theory is vulnerable to criticism because of an...

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Bayesian social learning with local interactions

Guarino, Antonio; Ianni, Antonella - In: Games 1 (2010) 4, pp. 438-458

We study social learning in a large population of agents who only observe the actions taken by their neighbours. Agents have to choose one, out of two, reversible actions, each optimal in one, out of two, unknown states of the world. Each agent chooses rationally, on the basis of private...

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Dynamics of decision making in cross-functional teams

Anibaba, Yetunde; de Akaighe, Godbless Onorio - In: Contemporary Economics 12 (2018) 4, pp. 485-496

Group decision making is often associated with better qualitative decisions and outcomes than decisions made by individuals alone. The dynamics of the group decision-making process, as opposed to the consequences of such decisions, have received limited research attention. While there is...

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Consensus techniques

Jankowski, Steve - In: Internet Policy Review 13 (2024) 2, pp. 1-9

governing through consensus. This encounter between democratic ideals on one side and its integration into socio …-technical projects on the other has had significant consequences for the purposes and meanings attached to consensus as a technique … consensus that has been rarely answered: to what degree is the meaning of consensus dedicated to decision-making and when is it …

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The impact of monitoring and sanctioning on unemployment exit and job-finding rates

McVicar, Duncan - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the … search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some …

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