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Brief note about the dilemmas of public election

Estrada, Fernando - 2012

In this brief comment, the public choice theory aims to distinguish the dilemmas and conflicts in formal and empirical. The hypothesis argues that the reality more complex than the principles of choice of Pareto and Liberalism*. Both the ethics and politics are taking decisions that are not...

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A welfarist approach to sequencing problems with incentives

Banerjee, Sreoshi; De, Parikshit; Mitra, Manipushpak - 2020

We adopt a welfarist approach to study sequencing problems in a private information setup. The ”generalized minimum welfare bound” (GMWB) is a universal representation of all the specific bounds that have been previously studied in the literature. Every agent is offered a protection in the...

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Incentive and normative analysis on sequencing problem

De, Parikshit - 2013

We identify the complete class of transfer rules that guarantee strategyproofness of any non-increasing in completion time allocation rule for the sequencing problem. We then characterize the class of mechanisms satisfying efficiency of decision (or aggregate cost minimization), egalitarian...

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Does moral play equilibrate?

Bomze, Immanuel; Schachinger, Werner; Weibull, Jorgen - 2018

Some finite and symmetric two-player games have no (pure or mixed) symmetric Nash equilibrium when played by partly morally motivated players. The reason is that the "right thing to do" may be not to randomize. We analyze this issue both under complete information between equally moral players...

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The superstar quest: Does youth talent predict professional success for female and male tennis players?

Grove, Wayne A.; Jetter, Michael - 2014

We estimate the relationship between international youth and professional tennis rankings. We find no difference between the predictiveness of rankings from age 14 & Under versus age 16 & Under competitions. The most persistent predictor of professional success is beating older top ranked...

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Essays on Addiction, Myopia, and Inconsistency

Yoon, SangHo - 2009

consumes over time. Addiction, however, is documentedas one of numerous anomalies that the standard theory fails to explain …. The modelsof habit-forming and compulsive consumptions have been suggested as the economicways to analyze addiction. The …, inconsequence, leads to addiction. In particular, I show that the model of habit-formationcan be easily modified to describe …

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Generosity during Covid-19 the effect of social distancing and framing on donations in dictator games

Lotti, Lorenzo - 2020

This paper investigates the impact of prolonged social distancing on generosity by analyzing the responses of 1255 US citizens to dictator games spread out over eight weeks of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the isolation and the negative effects on employment and household...

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Generosity during Covid-19 the effect of social distancing and framing on donations in dictator games

Lotti, Lorenzo - 2020

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Generosity during Covid-19 the effect of social distancing and framing on donations in dictator games

Lotti, Lorenzo - 2020

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Generosity and stability of social preferences: the e ects of negative socioeconomic shocks and framing

Lotti, Lorenzo - 2020

This paper investigates the impact of a negative socioeconomic shock on generosity by analysing the responses of 1255 US citizens to dictator games spread out over eight weeks of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each respondent plays four dictator games corresponding to four different...

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