Search Results - "Mathematical social sciences"

Axiomatic and game-theoretic analysis of bankruptcy and taxation problems: An update by Thomson, William

“…A group of agents have claims on a resource but there is not enough of it to honor all of the claims. How should it be divided? A group of agents decide to…”
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On maximum weighted Nash welfare for binary valuations by Suksompong, Warut, Teh, Nicholas

“…We consider the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to agents with weights representing their entitlements. A natural rule in this setting is the…”
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Approximate maximin shares for groups of agents by Suksompong, Warut

“…We investigate the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods among interested agents using the concept of maximin share. Procaccia and Wang showed that…”
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Node centrality based on its edges importance: The Position centrality by López, Susana, Molina, Elisenda, Saboyá, Martha, Tejada, Juan

“…We propose a novel family of node centralities in social networks, named family of position centralities, which explicitly takes into account the importance of…”
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On the decomposability of fractional allocations by Chatterji, Shurojit, Liu, Peng

“…A common practice in dealing with the allocation of indivisible objects is to treat them as infinitely divisible and specify a fractional allocation, which is…”
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Evidence disclosure with heterogeneous priors by Jiménez-Martínez, Antonio, Melguizo-López, Isabel

“…We investigate an interesting type of equilibrium of a game where a collective decision is reached by aggregating the preferred alternatives of a group of…”
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Rent dissipation in difference-form contests by Lahkar, Ratul

“…We consider rent-seeking contests where the impact function, which measures how much impact effort has, takes an exponential form. The resulting contest…”
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Signaling through Bayesian persuasion by Hedlund, Jonas

“…This paper examines the conditions under which separating outcomes occur in informed persuasion, that is, in Bayesian persuasion settings in which the sender…”
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Stable cartel configurations and product differentiation: The case of multiple cartels by Khan, Abhimanyu, Peeters, Ronald

“…We develop a framework to analyse stable cartelisation when firms can form multiple cartels. This contrasts with the existing literature which generally…”
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Weighted school choice problems and the weighted top trading cycles mechanism by Stroh-Maraun, Nadja

“…There are a number of school choice problems in which students are heterogeneous according to the number of seats they occupy at the school they are assigned…”
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The ascending auction with flexible reporting by Zhang, Xieji

“…In the assignment problem where multiple heterogeneous indivisible items are assigned to unit-demand bidders, we introduce a novel ascending auction called the…”
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Symmetry groups for social preference functions by Bubboloni, Daniela, Nardi, Francesco

“…We introduce the anonymity group, the neutrality group and the symmetry group of a social preference function. Inspired by an unsolved problem posed by Kelly…”
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Very weakly dominant strategies by Bachi, Benjamin, Rachmilevitch, Shiran

“…We introduce a new solution concept for n-person strategic games — very weak dominance — which is weaker than ordinary weak dominance, but stronger than Nash…”
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Project selection with partially verifiable information by Goel, Sumit, Hann-Caruthers, Wade

“…We study a principal–agent project selection problem with asymmetric information. The principal must choose exactly one of N projects, each defined by the…”
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The role of grandparents in grandchildren’s education for human capital accumulation in an overlapping generations model by Baldi, Mauro Maria, Coppier, Raffaella, Michetti, Elisabetta

“…We develop an overlapping generations model to explore the role of grandparents in grandchildren’s education and its impact on human capital growth. We examine…”
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The α-core in a multi-objective game with set payoffs by Song, Qi-Qing, Guo, Min, Chi, Xin-Yi

“…For the cooperative equilibria in α-core form, the balancedness and coalitionally C−security of games with usual utilities are extended to the games with…”
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Gain–loss hedging and cumulative prospect theory by Bastianello, Lorenzo, Chateauneuf, Alain, Cornet, Bernard

“…Two acts are comonotonic if they co-vary in the same direction. The main purpose of this paper is to derive a new characterization of Cumulative Prospect…”
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Expert’s reputation concern and consumer information by Ogawa, Hiromasa

“…Serious information asymmetry exists between consumers and expert sellers in the credit-goods market. This study develops a generic model to investigate the…”
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Some further results on random OBIC rules by Karmokar, Madhuparna, Majumdar, Dipjyoti, Roy, Souvik

“…We study the structure of probabilistic voting rules that are ordinal Bayesian incentive compatible (OBIC) with respect to independently distributed prior…”
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Full downside risk aversion by Keenan, Donald C., Snow, Arthur

“…It is shown that well-behaved notions of greater or less downside risk aversion, via utility transformations, lead not to just one, but two, dual, notions of…”
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