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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 ...
Non anonymous ballot aggregation: an axiomatic generalization of Approval Voting
(2011)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
We study axiomatically situations in which the society agrees to treat voters with different characteristics distinctly. In this setting, we propose a set of six intuitive axioms and show that they jointly characterize a ...
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. ...
Uncertainty with ordinal likelihood information
(2007)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper proposes a new framework of choice under uncertainty, where the only information available to the decision maker is about the the ordinal likelihood of the different outcomes each action generates. This contrasts ...
Size approval voting
(2007)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
We propose a new class of voting rules, called Size Approval Voting. According to this rule, the effective weight of a vote from a given individual depends on how many other alternatives the very same individual votes for. ...
Strategy-proof location of public facilities
(2015)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Agents frequently have different opinions on where to locate a public facility. While some agents consider the facility a good and prefer to have it nearby, others dislike it and would like to see it built far away from ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...