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Priorities in the Location of Multiple Public Facilities
Bochet, Olivier; Gordon, Sidartha (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-07)A collective decision problem is described by a set of agents, a profile of single-peaked preferences over the real line and a number k of public facilities to be located. We consider public facilities that do not su¤er from congestion and are ... -
Public Decisions: Solidarity and the Status Quo
Gordon, Sidartha (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006)A public decision model specifies a fixed set of alternatives A, a variable population, and a fixed set of admissible preferences over A, common to all agents. We study the implications, for any social choice function, of the principle of solidarity, ... -
Solidarity in Choosing a Location on a Cycle
Gordon, Sidartha (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006)We study the implications of two solidarity conditions on the efficient location of a public good on a cycle, when agents have single-peaked, symmetric preferences. Both conditions require that when circumstances change, the agents not responsible for ...