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their impact on the prevailing level of anonymity within an economy, as a driver of capital accumulation and technological …
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onset of the Industrial Revolution. We finally calibrate the model to quantify the impact of a higher degree of anonymity on …
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Call a mechanism that associates each profile of preferences over candidates to an ambiguous act an Ambiguous Social Function (ASCF). This paper studies the strategy-proofness of ASCFs. We find that an ASCF is unanimous and strategyproof if and only if there exists a nonempty subset of voters,...
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anonymity. The standard definition requires that if agents' names are permuted, their assignments should be permuted in the same … way. Since no rule satisfies this definition in this model, we introduce weaker variants, "anonymity on distinct … preferences," "pairwise-anonymity on distinct preferences," "pairwise-anonymity on distinct profiles," and "independence of others …
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Despite widespread use in online transactions, rating systems only provide summary statistics of buyers' diverse opinions at best. To investigate the consequences of this coarse form of information aggregation, we consider a dynamic lemons market in which buyers share their evaluations...
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