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Sharing the costs of cleaning a river: the upstream responsibility rule
(2013)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
The cleaning up of waste present in transboundary rivers, which requires the cooperation of different authorities, is a problematic issue, especially when responsibility for the discharge of the waste is not well-defined. ...
Freedom of choice: John Stuart Mill and the tree of life
(Springer-Verlag, 2012)
Artículo / Artikulua,
This essay deals with the notion and content of freedom of choice proposing a new set up and a new family of measures for this concept which is, indeed, an ethical value of paramount importance in a well ordered and open ...
Constrained school choice: an experimental QRE analysis
(Springer, 2023)
Artículo / Artikulua,
The theoretical literature on public school choice proposes centralized mechanisms that assign children to schools on the basis of parents’ preferences and the priorities children have for different schools. The related ...
Strategy-proof location of public facilities
(Elsevier, 2018)
info:eu-repo/semantics/article,
Consider the problem of locating a public facility taking into account the agents' preferences. To construct strategy-proof social choice rules, we propose a new preference domain that allows agents to have any single-peaked ...
Exchange of indivisible goods and indifferences: The Top Trading Absorbing Sets mechanisms
(Elsevier, 2011)
Artículo / Artikulua,
There is a wide range of economic problems that involve the exchange of indivisible goods with no monetary transfers, starting from the housing market model of the seminal paper by Shapley and Scarf (1974) to problems such ...
Uncertainty with ordinal likelihood information
(Springer-Verlag, 2013)
Artículo / Artikulua,
We present a model that is closely related to the so-called models of choice under complete uncertainty, in which the agent has no information about the probability of the outcomes. There are two approaches within the said ...
Measuring the cohesiveness of preferences: an axiomatic analysis
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013)
Artículo / Artikulua,
In this paper, we axiomatically study how to measure the similarity of preferences in a group of individuals. For simplicity, we refer to this as the cohesiveness. First, we provide axioms that characterize a family of ...
Ranking opportunity profiles through dependent evaluation of policies
(Springer US, 2012)
Artículo / Artikulua,
Rankings to evaluate opportunity distributions present in most of the literature judge a policy (change from one distribution of opportunities to another) on the basis of the changes created and, thus, independently ...
The measurement of the value of a language
(Elsevier, 2022)
Artículo / Artikulua,
We address the problem of assessing the value of a language. We consider a stylized model of multilingual societies in which we introduce axioms formalizing the principles of impartiality, monotonicity, invariance and ...
An evolutionary model of prenatal and postnatal discrimination against females
(Elsevier, 2020)
Artículo / Artikulua,
Discrimination against born and unborn females is a well-documented phenomenon in countries such
as India, China, Taiwan or Korea. Empirical studies support both additive and substitutive relationships
between prenatal ...