Government-owned investment vehicles or Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) are emerging as relevant players in global financial markets. Their rapid increase in size and asset range has captured considerable attention as capital flows now shift from emerging to developed economies. The goal of this...

This note introduces a new monotonicity property for sequencing situations. A sequencing rule is called drop out monotonic if no player will be worse off whenever one of the players decides to drop out of the queue before processing starts. This intuitively appealing property turns out to be...

This note introduces a new monotonicity property for sequencing situations. A sequencing rule is called drop out monotonic if no player will be worse off whenever one of the players decides to drop out of the queue before processing starts. This intuitively appealing property turns out to be...