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Single-plateaued choice
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2012-05)
Single-plateaued preferences generalize single-peaked preferences by allowing for multiple best elements. These preferences have played an important role in areas such as voting, strategy-proofness and matching problems. ...
Single-Plateaued Choice
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2012-05)
Single-plateaued preferences generalize single-peaked preferences by allowing for multiple best elements. These preferences have played an important role in areas such as voting, strategy-proofness and matching problems. ...
Extensive Social Choice and the Measurement of Group Fitness in Biological Hierarchies
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2012-07)
Extensive social choice theory is used to study the problem of measuring group fitness in a two-level biological hierarchy. Both fixed and variable group size are considered. Axioms are identified that imply that the group ...
Skewness risk and bond prices
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2012-05)
Statistical evidence is reported that even outside disaster periods, agents face negative consumption skewness, as well as positive inflation skewness. Quantitative implications of skewness risk for nominal loan contracts ...
Contracting for innovation under knightian uncertainty
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2012-09)
At any given point in time, the collection of assets existing in the economy is observable.
Each asset is a function of a set of contingencies. The union taken over all assets of these contingencies is what we call the ...
Proximity-Sensitive Individual Deprivation Measures
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2012-12)
We propose and characterize a generalization of the classical linear index of individual deprivation based on income shortfalls. Unlike the original measure, our class allows for increases in the income of a higher-income ...
An axiomatic characterization of the MVSHN group fitness ordering
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2012-09)
In order to analyze a unicellular-multicellular evolutionary transition, a multicellular organism is identified with the vector of viabilities and fecundities of its constituent cells. The Michod–Viossat–Solari–Hurand–Nedelcu ...
The journalistic hyperlink
(2012-10)
Hypertextuality has been a fundamental characteristic of the Web since its inception. It also impacts on journalism: the ability to link pages, sites and documents stands out as one of the features that essentially ...
Norm Transmission in Peace- and State-building: Lessons from Democracy Promotion in Sudan and Lebanon
(2012)
This article examines the transmission and reception of democratic norms in the context of liberal peace interventions. It identifies two reasons for the failure to promote democracy: the strategies favored by liberal peace ...
Changes in publication languages and citation practices and their effect on the scientific impact of Russian science (1993–2010)
(Wiley, 2012-03-28)
This paper analyses the effects of publication language on international scientific visibility of Russia
using the Web of Science. Like other developing and transition countries, it is subject to a growing pressure ...