Mathematical Social Sciences

1980 - 2025

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Volume 135, issue C, 2025

Multi-winner rules analogous to the Plurality rule

Clinton Gubong Gassi and Frank Steffen

The probability smoothing problem: Characterizations of the Laplace method

Toyotaka Sakai

Competitive attractiveness measurement in sports leagues: Sequential procedures for heterogeneous competitors

Marc Dubois

Election methods and political polarization

Salvatore Barbaro

Condorcet efficiency: Weighted Bucklin vs. weighted scoring and Borda

D. Marc Kilgour, Jean-Charles Grégoire and Angèle M. Foley

Dynamics of ideal efforts and consensus in a multi-layer network game

Ana Mauleon, Mariam Nanumyan and Vincent Vannetelbosch

Fuzzy classification aggregation

Federico Fioravanti

Volume 134, issue C, 2025

Evolutionary implementation with partially effective institutions pp. 1-13

Ratul Lahkar

The morality of markets. A critique pp. 14-19

Gregory Ponthiere and Nicolas Stevens

Information-based discrimination pp. 20-30

Naomi M. Utgoff

Upper semicontinuous utilities for all upper semicontinuous total preorders pp. 31-41

Gianni Bosi and Gabriele Sbaiz

Cooperative games with types, outside options, and the egalitarian value pp. 42-49

Florian Navarro

A measurement of population ageing: From the perspective of thickness of the labor force pp. 50-57

Yoko Kawada, Yuta Nakamura and Noriaki Okamoto

Bargaining theory and the copyright royalty board’s rate setting decisions for interactive streaming of music pp. 58-65

Elliott Hughes and Richard Watt

Volume 133, issue C, 2025

Stability and optimal double auction design for a two-sided market pp. 1-12

Aditya Vikram

With a little help from my friends: Essentiality vs opportunity in group criticality pp. 13-22

M. Aleandri and Dall’Aglio, M.

Condorcet domains on at most seven alternatives pp. 23-33

Dolica Akello-Egwel, Charles Leedham-Green, Alastair Litterick, Klas Markström and Søren Riis

Optimal top-n policy pp. 34-48

Isa Hafalir, Siqi Pan and Kentaro Tomoeda

Robots and humans: The role of fiscal and monetary policies in an endogenous growth model pp. 49-59

Óscar Afonso, Elena Sochirca and Pedro Cunha Neves

Volume 132, issue C, 2024

Symmetry groups for social preference functions pp. 1-14

Daniela Bubboloni and Francesco Nardi

Signaling through Bayesian persuasion pp. 15-27

Jonas Hedlund

The ascending auction with flexible reporting pp. 28-39

Xieji Zhang

Rent dissipation in difference-form contests pp. 40-48

Ratul Lahkar

Weighted school choice problems and the weighted top trading cycles mechanism pp. 49-56

Nadja Stroh-Maraun

Stable cartel configurations and product differentiation: The case of multiple cartels pp. 57-68

Abhimanyu Khan and Ronald Peeters

Evidence disclosure with heterogeneous priors pp. 69-74

Antonio Jimenez-Martinez and Isabel Melguizo-López

Very weakly dominant strategies pp. 75-78

Benjamin Bachi and Shiran Rachmilevitch

On the decomposability of fractional allocations pp. 79-89

Shurojit Chatterji and Peng Liu

Node centrality based on its edges importance: The Position centrality pp. 90-104

Susana López, Elisenda Molina, Martha Saboyá and Juan Tejada

Project selection with partially verifiable information pp. 105-113

Sumit Goel and Wade Hann-Caruthers

Consistent conjectures in dynamic matching markets pp. 114-127

Laura Doval and Pablo Schenone

Inequality and bipolarization-reducing mixed taxation pp. 128-145

Oriol Carbonell-Nicolau

Volume 131, issue C, 2024

Extensions of partial priorities and stability in school choice pp. 1-4

Minoru Kitahara and Yasunori Okumura

Designing information to improve welfare in matching markets pp. 5-16

Sulagna Dasgupta

Cost allocation and airport problems pp. 17-31

William Thomson

The α-core in a multi-objective game with set payoffs pp. 32-39

Qi-Qing Song, Min Guo and Xin-Yi Chi

Gain–loss hedging and cumulative prospect theory pp. 40-47

Lorenzo Bastianello, Alain Chateauneuf and Bernard Cornet

Shannon meets Myerson: Information extraction from a strategic sender pp. 48-66

Anuj S. Vora and Ankur A. Kulkarni

The role of grandparents in grandchildren’s education for human capital accumulation in an overlapping generations model pp. 67-79

Mauro Maria Baldi, Raffaella Coppier and Elisabetta Michetti

Expert’s reputation concern and consumer information pp. 80-92

Hiromasa Ogawa

Full downside risk aversion pp. 93-101

Donald C. Keenan and Arthur Snow

Some further results on random OBIC rules pp. 102-112

Madhuparna Karmokar, Dipjyoti Majumdar and Souvik Roy

Volume 130, issue C, 2024

Trade-off between manipulability and dictatorial power: A proof of the Gibbard–Satterthwaite Theorem pp. 1-3

Agustín Bonifacio

Output uncertainty mitigation in competitive markets pp. 4-9

Bingbing Li and Yan Long

Optimal taxation of nonrenewable resources during clean energy transition: A general equilibrium approach pp. 10-23

N. Baris Vardar

A solution for abstract decision problems based on maximum flow value pp. 24-37

Michele Gori

Note on compromise axiom pp. 38-47

Aleksandar Hatzivelkos

Volume 129, issue C, 2024

Delegation to incentivize information production pp. 1-11

Cheng Li and Huangxing Mao

Which set of agents plays a key role? An impossibility in transforming binary relations pp. 12-19

Takahiro Suzuki and Masahide Horita

The core in an N-firm dynamic Cournot oligopoly pp. 20-26

Lei Wang and Jingang Zhao

Aggregation of ranked categories pp. 27-33

John Craven

Increasing the representation of a targeted type in a reserve system pp. 34-41

Abdullah Almeer, Umut Dur, Will Harris, Greg Hauser, William Phan and Yanning Zhang

Core–periphery and nested networks emerging from a simple model of network formation pp. 42-51

Norma Olaizola and Federico Valenciano

Analysis of the core under inequality-averse utility functions pp. 52-60

Seiji Takanashi

On the continuity of the Walras correspondence in distributional economies with an infinite-dimensional commodity space pp. 61-69

Sebastián Cea and Matías Fuentes

Exploring the constraints on artificial general intelligence: A game-theoretic model of human vs machine interaction pp. 70-76

Mehmet S. Ismail

Aggregative games with discontinuous payoffs at the origin pp. 77-84

Pierre von Mouche and Ferenc Szidarovszky

Implementing direct democracy via representation pp. 85-92

Guadalupe Correa-Lopera

A characterization of the top trading cycles mechanism for the school choice problem pp. 93-100

Umut Dur and Scott Paiement

Rawlsian Matching pp. 101-106

Mustafa Oğuz Afacan and Umut Dur

On the difficulty of characterizing network formation with endogenous behavior pp. 107-110

Benjamin Golub, Yu-Chi Hsieh and Evan Sadler