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Zuiderveen Borgesius, Frederik - 2016

Some fear that personalised communication can lead to information cocoons or filter bubbles. For instance, a personalised news website could give more prominence to conservative or liberal media items, based on the (assumed) political interests of the user. As a result, users may encounter only...

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Price Discrimination, Algorithmic Decision-making, and European Non-discrimination Law

Zuiderveen Borgesius, Frederik - 2020

Our society can benefit immensely from algorithmic decision-making and similar types of artificial intelligence. But algorithmic decision-making can also have discriminatory effects. This paper examines that problem, using online price differentiation as an example of algorithmic...

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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth

Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...

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Oratie : 'Digitale discriminatie en differentiatie: het recht is er nog niet klaar voor' (Inaugural Lecture: 'Digital Discrimination and Differentiation: the Law Isn't Ready')

Zuiderveen Borgesius, Frederik - 2023

Dutch abstract: Organisaties kunnen computers gebruiken om beslissingen over mensen te nemen: digitale differentiatie. Zo kunnen verzekeraars prijzen aanpassen aan individuele consumenten, en kan de overheid computers gebruiken voor fraudebestrijding. Zulke digitale differentiatie is vaak nuttig...

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Fair earnings tax reforms

Ooghe, Erwin; Schokkaert, Erik; Serruys, Hannes - 2023

We characterize a measure of social welfare for linear production economies in which individuals differ in productive skills and preferences. The key feature of our measure is that it aggregates fairness gaps, defined as the difference between the money-metric utility that the individual...

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Fair Earnings Tax Reforms

Ooghe, Erwin; Schokkaert, Erik; Serruys, Hannes - 2023

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Adtech and Real-Time Bidding under European Data Protection Law

Veale, Michael; Zuiderveen Borgesius, Frederik - 2021

This paper discusses the troubled relationship between contemporary advertising technology (adtech) systems, in particular systems of real-time bidding (RTB, also known as programmatic advertising) underpinning much behavioural targeting on the web and through mobile applications. This paper...

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Civic Capital in Two Cultures : The Nature of Cooperation in Romania and USA

Ellingsen, Tore; Herrmann, Benedikt; Nowak, Martin; … - 2014

We experimentally investigate the nature of cooperation in various repeated games, with subjects from Romania and USA. We find stark cross-country differences in the propensity to sustain multilateral cooperation through bilateral rewards and punishments. U.S. groups perform well because...

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Harnessing Reciprocity to Promote Cooperation and the Provisioning of Public Goods

Rand, David G.; Yoeli, Erez; Hoffman, Moshe - 2015

How can we maximize the common good? This is a central organizing question of public policy design, across political parties and ideologies. The answer typically involves the provisioning of public goods such as fresh air, national defense, and knowledge. Public goods are costly to produce but...

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Are WTO rulings biased? : the role of institutional design in protecting judicial autonomy

Pauwelyn, Joost; Pelc, Krzysztof J. - 2023

and the impartiality of its adjudicators. Yet compared to other international tribunals, WTO members exert considerable … national bias looking across the board. Yet we do find evidence of bias for AB chairs, suggesting that when adjudicators are … tweaks in institutional design increase political pressure on adjudicators, in ways that threaten impartiality. This holds …

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