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Progressiveness of increase to utility from socioeconomic activities: ‘Barebones’ necessary conditions

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Humanities Open, 2022
This study arrives at a representation for ‘utility from decision making’ that is robust to modeling of any of ‘social interactions’, ‘economic activities’, or with social interactions interwoven with economic activities, modeling of ‘socioeconomic ...
Oghenovo A. Obrimah
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Private Monitoring and Communication in Cartels: Explaining Recent Collusive Practices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Motivated by recent cartel practices, a stable collusive agreement is characterized when firms' prices and quantities are private information. Conditions are derived whereby an equilibrium exists in which firms truthfully report their sales and then make
Andrzej Skrzypacz   +2 more
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All sky CMB map from cosmic strings integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
By actively distorting the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) over our past light cone, cosmic strings are unavoidable sources of non-Gaussianity.
Christophe Ringeval   +4 more
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Role of Thr82 for the unique photochemistry of TAT rhodopsin

open access: yesBiophysics and Physicobiology, 2021
Marine bacterial TAT rhodopsin possesses the pKa of the retinal Schiff base, the chromophore, at neutral pH, and photoexcitation of the visible protonated state forms the isomerized 13-cis state, but reverts to the original state within 10–5 sec.
Teppei Sugimoto   +2 more
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Fundamentos de la nueva fórmula de asignación del Fondo de Aportaciones para la Infraestructura Social en México

open access: yesEl Trimestre Económico, 2018
Antecedentes: El Fondo de Aportaciones para la Infraestructura Social (FAIS), instituido a partir de 1998, es una transferencia condicionada que distribuye el gobierno federal mexicano entre los estados y municipios para reducir la pobreza.
Jorge Ibarra Salazar
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Signaling Character in Electoral Competition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
We study a one-dimensional Hotelling-Downs model of electoral competition with the following innovation: a fraction of candidates have “character” and are exogenously committed to a campaign platform; this is unobservable to voters.
Kartik, Navin, McAfee, R. Preston
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Massive Gravity Theories and limits of Ghost-free Bigravity models [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
We construct a class of theories which extend New Massive Gravity to higher orders in curvature in any dimension. The lagrangians arise as limits of a new class of bimetric theories of Lovelock gravity, which are unitary theories free from the Boulware ...
A Nicolis   +41 more
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Black Holes in Ho\v{r}ava Gravity with Higher Derivative Magnetic Terms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We consider Horava gravity coupled to Maxwell and higher derivative magnetic terms. We construct static spherically symmetric black hole solutions in the low-energy approximation.
Alexandre J Pasipoularides P   +28 more
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Information gaps in the market for social services: retirement homes in the Czech Republic

open access: yesReview of Economic Perspectives, 2019
The research address a partial issue of market failure in the form of information asymmetry. Within the public sector, social services, together with health services, belong to typical sectors where the information superiority of supply against demand is
Vrabková Iveta   +2 more
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Alianzas y política: un juego entre agentes civiles y armados

open access: yesLecturas de Economía, 2009
Uno de los propósitos de los agentes armados en guerras irregulares es reemplazar al Estado en el monopolio de la violencia y en la protección de la población civil.
María Del Pilar Castillo, Boris Salazar
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