Mathematical Social Sciences

1980 - 2026

Current editor(s): J.-F. Laslier

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Volume 141, issue C, 2026

Direct or representative democracy? Co-Voting!

Hans Gersbach, Akaki Mamageishvili and Oriol Tejada

Nash implementation in a many-to-one matching market

Noelia Juarez, Paola B. Manasero and Jorge Oviedo

Two solutions on TU games with preference relations: The core and the globally stable solution

Mengyu Zhang, Hao Sun and Guangjing Yang

Public good provision with a governor

Chowdhury Mohammad Sakib Anwar, Alexander Matros and Sonali SenGupta

Admission based on residential address, academic achievement, and welfare

Muharrem Yeşilırmak

From utility functions and generalized means to distance functions: A Stone–Geary approach and related duality results

Walter Briec

Procrastination under partial Naïveté: Discontinuity and non-monotonicity

Jong Jae Lee and Huanyu Yin

When social networks polarize: On the number of clusters in the Hegselmann–Krause model

Wout de Vos, Michel Grabisch and Agnieszka Rusinowska

Axiomatic analysis of depreciation problems

Eiko Arata and Toru Hokari

Decomposition envy-freeness in random assignment

Yasushi Kawase, Warut Suksompong, Hanna Sumita and Yu Yokoi

Maximal elements of preorders from countable continuous multi-utilities

Gianni Bosi and Gabriele Sbaiz

Volume 140, issue C, 2026

The conceivable scope of negligence rules for internalizing multidirectional externalities

Urs Schweizer

Skeptical and credulous belief updating under black box recommendations

Shohei Yanagita

Market adjustment with advection and diffusion in excess demand

Hirokazu Sakane

Candidate coalitions and strategic manipulation in multi-winner elections: An evaluation of committee scoring rules

Badr Bahloul and Ahmed Doghmi

The impact of asset bubbles on capital and employment: The roles of labor unions and capital externality

Kathia Bahloul Zekkari

New fairness criteria for truncated ballots in multi-winner ranked-choice elections

Adam Graham-Squire, Matthew I. Jones and David McCune

Geographical poverty core formation in a spatial Solow growth model

Gonzalo F. de-Córdoba and Gonzalo Galiano

Non-emptiness of the core of mcst games with revenues

Begoña Subiza, José-Manuel Giménez-Gómez and Josep E. Peris

A new approach for imprecise probabilities

Marcello Basili and Luca Pratelli

From neighbors to components: The equivalence of fairness for neighbors and gap preservation

Takaaki Abe

A dynamic bicriteria fish war model with fish bank

Denis Kuzyutin and Nadezhda Smirnova

Brand spillovers as shadow enforcement: Endogenous liability regimes in correlated experience goods markets

Yizheng Chen, Jingkui Li and Guoqiang Tian

Licensing a capacity-increasing innovation§

Stefano Colombo and Siyu Ma

Category-dependent preferences and stochastic choice

Matthew Ryan

Between proportionnality and envy-freeness: k-proportionality

Guillaume Chèze

On the threshold representation of partial orderings

Daniele Caliari and Davide Carpentiere

Volume 139, issue C, 2026

Less risk, more effort: How overconfidence reshapes tournament strategies

Noëmi Jacober and Luis Santos-Pinto

Taxing platforms with multi-homing

Yuta Saito and Yeming Zhang

Claim-strength problems and mixtures: An axiomatic study

Frederik Van De Putte and Stefan Wintein

R&D cooperation and spillovers: When do research joint ventures improve welfare?

Yassine Badra, Bertrand Chopard and Huizhong Liu

Dynamic adverse selection with the best and the worst in mind

Pascal Toquebeuf

Endogenous technology choice in contests

Doron Klunover

A note on Pareto-optimal taxation mechanism in noncooperative strategic bilateral exchange

Ludovic A. Julien and Gagnie P. Yebarth

Volume 138, issue C, 2025

A nonatomic game involving incomplete information and general ambiguity attitudes

Jian Yang

The use of symmetry for models with variable-size variables

Takeshi Fukasawa

A look back at the core of games in characteristic function form: Some new axiomatization results

Anindya Bhattacharya

Same-sex marriage, the great equalizer

Alexei Parakhonyak and Sergey Popov

Envy-freeness and maximum Nash welfare for mixed divisible and indivisible goods

Koichi Nishimura and Hanna Sumita

Conformism and name dynamics: A cliometric study of ancient Greek names

Laurent Gauthier

The dynamics of bargaining power in a principal-agent model

Sonia Di Giannatale, Itza Tlaloc Quetzalcoatl Curiel-Cabral and Genaro Basulto

Limited attention and models of choice: A behavioral equivalence

Davide Carpentiere and Angelo Enrico Petralia

Simplex subtraction to estimate unanimity violations in sequential majority voting

Christian Klamler

Connectedness in weighted consensus division of graphical cakes between two agents

Josef Hanke and Ana Rita Pires

Rational bubbles in portfolios with fundamental value

Lise Clain-Chamosset-Yvrard, Xavier Raurich and Thomas Seegmuller

Delegation and strategic altruism: A theoretical approach

Luciano Méndez-Naya

On human capital accumulation in times of epidemic

Stefano Bosi, David Desmarchelier and Cuong Le Van

Multimarket contact, cartel and product quality

Neelanjan Sen and Uday Sinha

A simple model on social connections, wages, and welfare

Ying Wang and Richard Woodward

Note on intertemporal preference with loss aversion

Kyoung Jin Choi, Junkee Jeon and Hyeng Keun Koo

Strategic behavior in contests with sabotage

Doron Klunover

The set of pure-strategy equilibria in max–min two-group contests with a private good prize

Mario Gilli and Andrea Sorrentino

Basic research and market concentration

Khaled Belkadhi, Hend Ghazzai and Rim Lahmandi-Ayed

Truth-telling in dynamic reputational cheap talk

Dohui Woo

Apportionment when seats are allocated in lots. The D’Hondt method case and political implications

Juan Carlos Gonçalves-Dosantos and Joaquín Sánchez-Soriano

Revealing compatible choices

Salvador Candelas

Competition through entry fees between auctions for differentiated objects

Massimiliano Landi, Domenico Menicucci and Domenico Colucci