Nash implementation of supermajority rules
International Journal of Game TheoryAbstractA committee of n experts from a university department must choose whom to hire from a set of m candidates. Their honest judgments about the best candidate must be aggregated to determine the socially optimal candidates. However, experts’ judgments are not verifiable.
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Malaysia’s 2013 election: the nation, and the National Front [PDF]
If ever an election victory could be interpreted as a humiliation by the winning side, then the Malaysian federal election, held in May this year, was profoundly humiliating for the National Front (Barisan Nasional, or BN).
Amrita Malhi
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Factors Influencing Voting Results of Local Transportation Funding Initiatives with a Substantial Transit Component: Case Studies of Ballot Measures in Eleven Communities, MTI Report 01-17 [PDF]
, 2001 This publication is a follow-up study to MTI publication 00-01, Why Campaigns for Local Transportation Funding Initiatives Succeed or Fail: An Analysis of Four Communities and National Data.
Haas, Peter J, Werbel, Richard
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Dynamics of the Presidential Veto: A Computational [PDF]
We specify and compute equilibria of a dynamic policy-making game between a president and a legislature under insitutional rules that emulate those of the US Constitution.
John Duggan +2 more
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Large Language Models in Cardiovascular Imaging: Current Applications and Future Prospects
Med Research, Volume 2, Issue 1, Page 22-25, March 2026.
Weifeng Yuan +3 more
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Political Parties and the Tax Level in the American states: Two Regression Discontinuity Designs [PDF]
Do parties matter? Yes, but not in the usual way we tend to think of them: big government Democrats and small government Republicans. Our first regression discontinuity design shows that whether the majority in the House of Representatives is Republican ...
Leandro M. de Magalhães, Lucas Ferrero
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Private benefits and minority shareholder expropriation : empirical evidence from IPOs of German family-owned firms [PDF]
, 2001 Our study examines the existence and the nature of private benefits of control in Germany. We do this by analyzing initial public offerings of founding-family owned firms and tracking their fate up to ten years following the IPO.
Ehrhardt, Olaf, Nowak, Eric
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Supermajority Voting Rules: Balancing Commitment and Flexibility. [PDF]
, 2002 When optimal policymaking is subject to dynamic inconsistencies (Kydland and Prescott, 1977), but shocks hit the economy after private agents form expectations, there is a trade off between the need to commit to a policy, and the need to retain discretion so as to respond to shocks.
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What Makes for More or Less Powerful Constitutional Courts? [PDF]
, 2014 It is sometimes suggested that one or another constitutional or supreme court (for example, the U.S., Indian, or German) is the “most powerful in the world.” And yet it is often far from clear what the measure of power is or should be, what the sources ...
Gardbaum, Stephen
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Maximising Consent: Operationalising Reciprocity in Secession Referenda [PDF]
, 2015 A constitutional referendum on secession from Indonesia was held in East Timor in 1999, with a pro-independence vote triggering widespread violence by the Indonesian army and pro-union militia.
Stephens, Cody
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