Based on literature review and surveys conducted by the Faculty of Economics of Budapest Tech the importance ratings of the technical skills of American and Hungarian business students expected on entering employment are developed. The importance ratings of these technical skills are assessed by...

The sequential coalition formation model of Bloch (1996) to solve cooperative games with externalities exhibits some anomalies when related to classical concepts. We elaborate on these problems, define a modification of Bloch's model and show that its order-independent equilibria coincide with...

Egy központi felvételi rendszer feladata a jelentkezők és az iskolák, vagy szakok párosítása. Ez a párosítás többféleképpen is történhet, azonban a gyakran igen különböző felvételi rendszerek is leírhatók néhány alapelv mentén. Ilyen alapelvként fogalmazható meg, hogy...

We show that the invariant method (Pinski and Narin, 1976), recently axiomatised by Palacios-Huerta and Volij (2004), and used to quality-rank academic journals is subject to manipulation: a journal can boost its performance by making additional citations to other journals.

Voting power methodology offers insights to understand coalition building in collective decision making. This paper proposes a new measure of voting power inspired from Banzhaf (1965) accounting for the proximity between voters by capturing how often they appear in winning coalitions together....

Our assumptions made on the basis of an incomplete evaluation of the completed questionnaires that have been returned reflect our very first impressions. Stressing the above, we wish to point out the following statements and correlations. During the survey, businesses considered developments in...

To take development and budgeting decisions for research activi- ties the officials in charge need to constantly evaluate and assess the quality of research. Over the years a handful of scoring methods for academic journals have been proposed. Discussing the most prominent methods (de facto...

We provide a generalization of the position value (Meessen 1988) that allows players to benefit from transfers of worth by investing in their communication links. The player who invests the most in a communication link obtains a compensation from the second one. We characterize this new...