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Robust Price of Anarchy for Atomic Games with Altruistic Players [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
We study the inefficiency of equilibria for various classes of games when players are (partially) altruistic. We model altruistic behavior by assuming that player i's perceived cost is a convex combination of 1-\beta_i times his direct cost and \beta_i ...
Chen, Po-An   +6 more
core  

Labor Market Monopsony Power and the Dynamic Gains to Openness Reforms

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We embed labor market monopsony into a dynamic heterogeneous‐firm general equilibrium model with exporting, horizontal FDI, and rich firm lifecycle dynamics. Rising marginal costs with monopsony slow and limit incumbent firm growth in response to liberalization, shifting adjustment to the extensive margin.
Priyaranjan Jha   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Minimizing Price of Anarchy in Resource Allocation Games

open access: yes, 2014
Resource allocation refers to problems where there is a set of resources to be allocated efficiently among a group of agents. The distributed nature of resource allocation motivates modeling it as a distributed control problem. One of the strong modeling
Shalaby, Yassmin
core   +1 more source

A Conversation With David Bellhouse

open access: yesInternational Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
wiley   +1 more source

Bounding the Inefficiency of Compromise in Opinion Formation. [PDF]

open access: yesAlgorithmica, 2022
Caragiannis I   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

On the Effect of Time Preferences on the Price of Anarchy

open access: yes
This paper examines the impact of agents' myopic optimization on the efficiency of systems comprised by many selfish agents. In contrast to standard congestion games where agents interact in a one-shot fashion, in our model each agent chooses an infinite sequence of actions and maximizes the total reward stream discounted over time under different ways
Yunpeng Li 0007   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Scrutinising Frontex: The European Parliament and Accountability through Discharge

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how the European Parliament (EP) has leveraged the budgetary discharge procedure to enhance the political accountability of the EU's Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex. Whilst the procedure is formally limited to budget implementation, the EP has used it as an accountability tool that goes far beyond financial ...
Magnus G. Schoeller, Peter Slominski
wiley   +1 more source

Franco‐British Bilateral Diplomacy After Brexit, 2020–2025: Mending the Ties That Bind

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Brexit shook to its very core one of the European Union's (EU's) prominent partnerships, the Franco‐British bilateral relationship (FBBR), disrupting diplomatic routines and shattering interpersonal trust before circumstances changed and the relationship rapidly began to mend. In this article, we analyse the breakdown and restoration of Franco‐
Helen Drake, Pauline Schnapper
wiley   +1 more source

No Remedy: Injustice and Constrained Citizenship in Indonesia's Plantation Zone

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This contribution to the special issue examines a constrained version of citizenship in Indonesia's plantation zone. When corporations take hold of village land, residents experience devastating dispossession and a profound sense of injustice, yet they lack effective channels through which to claim rights as citizens or secure remedy from the ...
Tania Murray Li, Pujo Semedi
wiley   +1 more source

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