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Time-Inconsistent Candidates vs. Time-Inconsistent Voters : Imperfect Policy Commitment in Political Equilibrium [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines whether policy commitment mechanisms, when available, will be used by the elected policymaker in a political-economy equilibrium. We describe a two period repeated voting model where second-period outcomes depend on commitment choices
Pani, Marco, Perroni, Carlo
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Distributed Random Process for a Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Lottery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Most online lotteries today fail to ensure the verifiability of the random process and rely on a trusted third party. This issue has received little attention since the emergence of distributed protocols like Bitcoin that demonstrated the potential of ...
J Zhou   +7 more
core   +4 more sources

Institutional Ownership and Corporate Sustainability Performance—A Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 4719-4735, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between institutional ownership (IO) and corporate sustainability performance (SP), addressing inconsistent findings in prior research and clarifying the boundary conditions of this relationship by testing a defined set of potential moderators.
Hans Henrik Scherer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Voting in Multiparty Systems: A Group Experiment [PDF]

open access: yes
The paper tests the theory of strategic voting for multiparty systems with proportional representation and coalition governments at the micro-level. The study focuses in particular on the question whether participation in repeated elections allows voters
Gschwend, Thomas, Meffert, Michael F.
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Rising Strong: Cultivating Resilience in Edible City Entrepreneurship. Insights Into the Landscape of Urban Food Initiatives

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to growing global challenges, this study explores how social entrepreneurship within the Edible City movement contributes to building resilient, sustainable, and equitable urban food systems. Drawing on semistructured interviews with over 70 stakeholders across five cities—Berlin, Andernach, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Havana—we ...
Ina Säumel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

In Search of the Black Swan: Analysis of the Statistical Evidence of Electoral Fraud in Venezuela

open access: yes, 2012
This study analyzes diverse hypotheses of electronic fraud in the Recall Referendum celebrated in Venezuela on August 15, 2004. We define fraud as the difference between the elector's intent, and the official vote tally. Our null hypothesis is that there
Hausmann, Ricardo, Rigobon, Roberto
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Fueling Tomorrow: Scenario Planning for the Future of Gas Stations

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transport electrification is reshaping the service infrastructures that mediate everyday mobility, yet most electrification scenario studies remain macrolevel and offer limited insight into how incumbent forecourt (gas‐station) networks can adapt under deep uncertainty.
Joao Gabriel Rosa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consensus-based disease definitions for endocrine immune-related adverse events of immune checkpoint inhibitors

open access: yesJournal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are an important class of cancer treatment. Endocrine immune-related adverse events (E-irAEs) account for a significant proportion of irAEs in ICI-treated patients.
Cassandra Calabrese   +36 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Dynamics of Inequality and Social Security in General Equilibrium [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper analyzes the dynamic politico-economic equilibrium of a model where repeated voting on social security and the evolution of household characteristics in general equilibrium are mutually affected over time.
Song, Zheng
core   +1 more source

Geometric vulnerability of democratic institutions against lobbying: a sociophysics approach

open access: yes, 2017
An alternative voting scheme is proposed to fill the democratic gap between a president elected democratically via universal suffrage (deterministic outcome, the actual majority decides), and a president elected by one person randomly selected from the ...
Galam, Serge
core   +3 more sources

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