Calendrier du 08 février 2018
TOM (Théorie, Organisation et Marchés) Lunch Seminar
Du 08/02/2018 de 12:30 à 13:30
salle R1-15, campus Jourdan - 48 bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
MACé Antonin (PSE)
On the Weights of Sovereign Nations
écrit avec Rafael Treibich
We study the design of voting rules for committees representing
heterogeneous groups (countries, states, districts) when participation
in the committee is voluntary. While efficiency recommends weighting
groups proportionally to their stakes, we show that accounting for
participation constraints entails overweighting some groups, those for
which the incentive to participate is the lowest. When collective
decisions are not enforceable, cooperation is enabled by the
satisfaction of more stringent constraints, that may require granting
a veto power to certain countries. The model has important
implications for the problem of apportionment, the allocation of
voting weights to countries of varying populations, where it provides
a rationale for setting a minimum representation for smaller
countries.
Behavior Working Group
Du 08/02/2018 de 10:00 à 11:00
LOBECK Max ( University of Konstanz)
An experimental study on the link between anti-social preferences and within firm mobility