Mathematical Social Sciences

1980 - 2025

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Volume 128, issue C, 2024

Strategy-proof allocation of objects: A characterization result pp. 1-5

Tommy Andersson and Lars-Gunnar Svensson

Classification aggregation without unanimity pp. 6-9

Olivier Cailloux, Matthieu Hervouin, Ali Ozkes and M. Remzi Sanver

Externalities and the (pre)nucleolus in cooperative games pp. 10-15

Mikel Álvarez-Mozos and Lars Ehlers

Note on “A classification of peak-pit maximal Condorcet domains” by Guanhao Li, Mathematical Social Sciences 125 (2023), 42–57 pp. 16-17

Clemens Puppe and Arkadii Slinko

Characterizations of approval ranking pp. 18-24

Hiroyuki Komatsu

Expectations for the MPC chair and interest rate persistence pp. 25-30

Yuta Saito

Dynamics of opinion polarization in a population pp. 31-40

Ricardo Cano Macias and Jorge Mauricio Ruiz Vera

Optimal influence under observational learning pp. 41-51

Nikolas Tsakas

A game-theoretic implication of the Riemann hypothesis pp. 52-59

Christian Ewerhart

Horizontal mergers with Bertrand competition and convex costs pp. 60-67

Elpiniki Bakaouka, Marc Escrihuela-Villar and Walter Ferrarese

Taylor and fiscal rules: When do they stabilize the economy? pp. 68-89

Francesco Magris and Daria Onori

Coherence of inequality measures with respect to partial orderings of income distributions pp. 90-99

Terence Chan

Network externalities in a vertically differentiated luxury goods market pp. 100-109

Di Wu, Ji Sun, Leonard F.S. Wang and Huizhong Liu

Volume 127, issue C, 2024

Ultimatum bargaining with envy under incomplete information pp. 1-11

Eric Gonzalez-Sanchez and Gino Loyola

Rational Shortlist Method with refined rationales pp. 12-18

Hassan Nosratabadi

Policy polarization, primaries, and strategic voters pp. 19-35

Diego Carrasco, Shino Takayama, Yuki Tamura and Terence Yeo

Creative destruction vs destructive destruction: A Schumpeterian approach for adaptation and mitigation pp. 36-53

Can Askan Mavi

Relational utility and social norms in games pp. 54-61

Ruiyang Su and Bryce Morsky

Positively correlated choice pp. 62-71

Guy Barokas

Information design and sensitivity to market fundamentals pp. 72-85

Pedro Guinsburg

Computational complexity of necessary envy-freeness pp. 86-98

Haris Aziz, Ildikó Schlotter and Toby Walsh

Costly expressive voting pp. 99-104

Arthur Fishman and Doron Klunover

Volume 126, issue C, 2023

Sensitivity of fair prices in assignment markets pp. 1-12

Tamás Solymosi

Exclusive and non-exclusive licensing with shelving pp. 13-29

Yuanzhu Lu and Sougata Poddar

Mergers of complements, endogenous product differentiation and welfare pp. 30-41

Tien-Der Han and Arijit Mukherjee

Intertemporal price discrimination with time-inconsistent consumers pp. 42-47

János Flesch, Zsombor Z. Méder, Ronald Peeters and Yianis Sarafidis

Weighted fair division with matroid-rank valuations: Monotonicity and strategyproofness pp. 48-59

Warut Suksompong and Nicholas Teh

Restricted complementarity and paths to stability in matching with couples pp. 60-67

Benjamín Tello

Analytic approach for models of optimal retirement with disability risk pp. 68-75

Jiwon Chae, Bong-Gyu Jang and Seyoung Park

Subjective complexity under uncertainty pp. 76-93

Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey

Robust Bayesian choice pp. 94-106

Lorenzo Stanca

Maximal domains for strategy-proof pairwise exchange pp. 107-118

Carmelo Rodriguez-Alvarez

On the measurement of electoral volatility pp. 119-128

Sandip Sarkar and Bharatee Dash

Volume 125, issue C, 2023

Implementing optimal scholarship assignments via backward induction pp. 1-10

Pablo Amoros

The disclosure decision game: Subsidies and incentives for R&D activity pp. 11-26

Domenico Buccella, Luciano Fanti and Luca Gori

Unrealized arbitrage opportunities in naive equilibria with non-Bayesian belief processes pp. 27-41

Alexander Zimper

A classification of peak-pit maximal Condorcet domains pp. 42-57

Guanhao Li

Experiments versus distributions of posteriors pp. 58-60

Stefan Terstiege and Cédric Wasser

Remarks on solidarity in bankruptcy problems when agents merge or split pp. 61-64

Pedro Calleja, Francesc Llerena and Peter Sudhölter

When is frugality optimal? pp. 65-75

Bertrand Crettez, Naila Hayek and Georges Zaccour

Characterization of optimal durations of unemployment benefits in a nonstationary job search model pp. 76-93

Gilles Joseph and Paul-Emile Maingé

Proportional resource allocation in dynamic n-player Blotto games pp. 94-100

Nejat Anbarci, Kutay Cingiz and Mehmet S. Ismail

Effects of development aid (grants and loans) on the economic dynamics of the recipient country pp. 101-112

Cuong Le Van, Ngoc-Sang Pham and Thi Kim Cuong Pham

When to seek expert advice? A simple model of borrowers with limited liability pp. 113-120

Ratul Das Chaudhury and Sukanta Bhattacharya

Volume 124, issue C, 2023

Strategic behaviour and manipulation resistance in Peer-to-Peer, crowdsourced information gathering pp. 1-23

William George

Targeted advertising with R&D rivalry pp. 24-34

Changying Li, Youping Li and Jianhu Zhang

Optimal tariffs with endogenous vertical structure: Uniform versus discriminatory tariffs pp. 35-50

Ki-Dong Lee and Kangsik Choi

Volume 123, issue C, 2023

Existence and stability results on the unilateral support equilibrium pp. 1-9

Vincenzo Scalzo

Favouritism and corruption in procurement auctions pp. 10-24

Krishnendu Dastidar and Sonakshi Jain

Cryptocurrency is accounting coordination: Selfish mining and double spending in a simple mining game pp. 25-50

Fernando Barros, Jefferson Bertolai and Matheus Carrijo

The price of independence in a model with unknown dependence pp. 51-58

Lorán Chollete, Victor de la Peña and Michael Klass

Confirmation bias in social networks pp. 59-76

Marcos Fernandes

Cartelization under present bias and imperfect public signals pp. 77-86

Long Cheng, Stuart McDonald and Guangliang Ye

Optimal queue to minimize waste pp. 87-94

Xiaochang Lei

Intertemporal equilibrium with physical capital and financial asset: Role of dividend taxation pp. 95-104

Ngoc-Sang Pham

Social influence: The Usage History heuristic pp. 105-113

Bary S.R. Pradelski

Pricing group membership pp. 114-121

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay and Antonio Cabrales

Sharing a collective probability of success pp. 122-127

Pierre Dehez

When ties are possible: Weak Condorcet winners and Arrovian rationality pp. 128-136

Mostapha Diss, Keith Dougherty and Jac Heckelman

Agglomeration and welfare of the Krugman model in a continuous space pp. 137-142

Kensuke Ohtake

Market-dependent preferences, positive and negative network effects and welfare pp. 143-154

Damien Gaumont, Yassine Badra and Detelina Kamburova

Capital-augmenting technical change in the context of untapped automation opportunities pp. 155-166

Arthur Jacobs

A conceptual model for FRAND royalty setting pp. 167-176

Jens Leth Hougaard, Chiu Yu Ko and Xuyao Zhang