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Sharing the Cost of a Public Good: an Incentive-Constrained Axiomatic Approach
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-07)
We study the problem of provision and cost-sharing of a public good in large economies where exclusion, complete or partial, is possible. We search for incentive-constrained efficient allocation rules that display fairness ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Using Ancillary Text to Index Web-based Multimedia Objects
(2006-06)
PériCulture est le nom d'un projet de recherche à l'Université de Montréal qui fait partie d'un projet plus vaste basé à l'Université de Sherbrooke. Ce dernier visait à former un réseau de recherche pour la gestion du ...
Language plurality as power struggle, or: Translating politics in Canada
(2006-01)
For this paper, heterolingualism or language plurality will be considered as
the presence in a single text or in a social environment of both French and
English, Canada’s official languages. Language plurality will here ...
Sharing the Cost of a Public Good without Subsidies
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-07)
We study the construction of a social ordering function for the case of a public good financed by contributions from the population, and we extend the analysis of Maniquet and Sprumont (2004) to the case when contributions ...
A Characterization of Consistent Collective Choice Rules
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-08)
We characterize a class of collective choice rules such that collective preference relations are consistent. Consistency is a weakening of transitivity and a strengthening of acyclicity requiring that there be no cycles ...
The Haut-Saint-Laurent wilderness at the time of settlement based on Sellar’s History. Part II : Forests and wetlands.
(Société Historique de la Vallée de la Châteauguay = Chateauguay Valley Historical Society, 2006)