Mathematical Social Sciences

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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

Volume 122, issue C, 2023

Distributional effects of endogenous discounting pp. 1-6

Nigar Hashimzade, Oleg Kirsanov and Tatiana Kirsanova

A method for identifying parameterizations of the Compensation election and Quadratic voting that admit pure-strategy equilibria pp. 7-16

Roumen Vragov and Vernon Smith

Can a negative population growth rate sustain a positive economic growth rate in the long run? pp. 17-28

Alberto Bucci

Optimal incentive contracts with a spiteful principal: Single agent pp. 29-41

Swapnendu Banerjee (Bandyopadhyay) and Somenath Chakraborty

Another strategy-proofness characterization of majority rule pp. 42-49

Robert C. Powers and Flannery Wells

Strategic manipulations in round-robin tournaments pp. 50-57

Alex Krumer, Reut Megidish and Aner Sela

Volume 121, issue C, 2023

Group control for consent rules with consecutive qualifications pp. 1-7

Yongjie Yang and Dinko Dimitrov

Insurance contracts and financial markets pp. 8-19

Andrés Carvajal and João Thereze

Contests with an uncertain number of prizes with a fixed total value pp. 20-25

François Maublanc and Sébastien Rouillon

Asking for information prior to settlement or trial when misrepresentation of evidence is possible pp. 26-35

Mehdi Ayouni, Tim Friehe and Yannick Gabuthy

Implementation with a sympathizer pp. 36-49

Ozan Altuğ Altun, Mehmet Barlo and Nuh Aygün Dalkıran

Generalized binary utility functions and fair allocations pp. 50-60

Franklin Camacho, Rigoberto Fonseca-Delgado, Ramón Pino Pérez and Guido Tapia

The equal split-off set for NTU-games pp. 61-67

Bas Dietzenbacher and Elena Yanovskaya

Volume 120, issue C, 2022

A new fairness notion in the assignment of indivisible resources pp. 1-7

Nanyang Bu

On a new class of continuous indices of inequality pp. 8-23

Terence Chan

Intermittency and electricity retailing: An incomplete market approach pp. 24-36

Jean-Henry Ferrasse, Nandeeta Neerunjun and Hubert Stahn

Merger effects in asymmetric and differentiated Bertrand oligopolies pp. 37-49

X. Wang and Jingang Zhao

Deferred acceptance algorithm with retrade pp. 50-65

Akihiko Matsui and Megumi Murakami

When is intergroup herding beneficial? pp. 66-77

Xiaoli Guo and Dmitry Ryvkin

Risk allocation and financial intermediation pp. 78-84

Arnaud Goussebaïle

Essential stationary equilibria of mean field games with finite state and action space pp. 85-91

Berenice Anne Neumann

Psychological Nash equilibria under ambiguity pp. 92-106

Giuseppe De Marco, Maria Romaniello and Alba Roviello

The market for lemons and information theory pp. 107-112

Robert Mamada

King-chicken choice correspondences pp. 113-118

Matheus Costa and Gil Riella