This study examines why no existing decentralized storage is suitable for storing personal data, from a legal and ethical point of view, and what negative consequences the development of blockchain technologies may have for society without taking this crucial factor into account.We take a closer...

Why do absolutists decentralize power to others? We developed a signaling game model to analyze the decentralization under an authoritarian regime. The model reveals that strong rulers prefer to not offer any power decentralization, while weak rulers tend to disguise themselves as strong rulers...

The literature on fiscal federalism has long debated whether fiscally decentralized countries are inherently more economically and fiscally unstable. This paper contributes to this literature by analyzing the impact of fiscal decentralization on one of the most important dimensions of...

This paper contributes to the literature on the nexus between decentralization and citizen trust in government through the use of a comprehensive set of decentralization measures that have been recently developed. Using measures of autonomy at both the regional and local (municipal) levels of...

We study pre-vote interactions in a committee that enacts a welfare-improving reform through voting. Committee members use decentralized promises contingent on the reform enactment to influence the vote outcome. Equilibrium promises prevent beneficial coalitional deviations and minimize total...

Decentralised technologies have gained popularity recently due to their reliable, transparent, open, immutable and secured natures. The technologies have demonstrated numerous benefits in a wide range of domains, including finance, healthcare, government, manufacturing and supply chain. However,...

In river systems, costly upstream pollution abatement creates downstream welfare gains. Without a central authority to enforce such abatement, the welfare gains can only be realized if downstream regions compensate for the upstream abatement. We develop a model that makes explicit the impact of...

On-demand mobility services are transforming urban mobility. They can provide individual and collective benefits when managed optimally, and their successful integration within the existing urban transport system can enhance its performance. In contrast, inadequate fleet management can inflict...

Successive decentralized policy makers must decide whether to implement an affirmative action policy aimed at improving the performance distribution of future generations of a targeted group. Employers do not observe district by district whether workers benefited from affirmative action, but...

With the increasing usage of automated guided vehicles on a large scale,the scalability of traditional path planning algorithms are limited in the central control systems. To alleviate the pressure on the system, the agent should be equipped with the ability to make independent decisions. In...