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On Complexity of Lobbying in Multiple Referenda
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-10)
In this paper we show that lobbying in conditions of “direct democracy” is virtually impossible, even in conditions of complete information about voters preferences, since it would require solving a very computationally ...
Matching Markets under (In)complete Information
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2007-02-01)
We are the first to introduce incomplete information to centralized many-to-one matching markets such as those to entry-level labor markets or college admissions. This is important because in real life markets (i) any agent ...
Free Triples, Large Indifference Classes and the Majority Rule
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2007-03)
A New Approach to Drawing States in State Space Models
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2007-06)
Social Norms and Rationality of Choice
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2007)
Ever since Sen (1993) criticized the notion of internal consistency of choice, there exists a wide spread perception that the standard rationalizability approach to the theory of choice has difficulties coping with the ...
Self-Selective Social Choice Functions
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-11)
It is not uncommon that a society facing a choice problem has also to choose the choice rule itself. In such situation voters’ preferences on alternatives induce preferences over the voting rules. Such a setting immediately ...
The Economic Dynamics of Antibiotic Efficacy under Open Access
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2007-05)
On the Manipulability of Proportional Representation
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-07)
This paper presents a new model of voter behaviour under methods of proportional representation (PR). We abstract away from rounding, and assume that a party securing k percent of the vote wins exactly k percent of the ...
Introducing "Critical Essays": Leigh Hunt and theatrical criticism in the early nineteenth century
(2001)
The years 1801 to 1808 saw the emergence of Leigh Hunt as a public figure on the London literary scene, first with the publication of his collection of poetry, "Juvenilia", and then with his work as theater critic for "The ...
Population Ethics
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-09)
This paper reviews the welfarist approach to population ethics. We provide an overview of the critical-level utilitarian population principles and their generalized counterparts, examine important properties of these ...