We provide a contingent valuation of a major cycling event, viz. the Tour of Flanders. Starting from survey data, we use a Bayesian method to derive the distribution of Flemish individuals’ willingness to pay for the event. We relate the individual figures to explanatory factors and find that...

We study divisor methods, the primary class to solve apportionment problems, based upon Stolarsky means S_;_. These encompass the .ve traditional methods. We disclose a one-to-one relation between methods of the form S_;1 and aggregate measures of seat/vote disproportion- ality of the...

We build on the Information Theory foundations of the Mutual Information Index of Segregation [Mora and Ruiz-Castillo, 2003; Frankel and Volij, 2007] to analyze two horizontal dimensions of gender segregation on the labour market. We provide a novel, three-way additive decomposition of their effects...