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To appove or not to approve: this is not the only question
(2012)
This paper deals with electing candidates. In elections voters are frequently offered
a small set of actions (voting in favor of one candidate, voting blank, spoiling the
ballot, and not showing up). Thus voters can ...
An axiomatization of success
(2011)
In this paper we give an axiomatic characterization of three families of measures of success defined by Laruelle and Valenciano (2005) for voting rules.
Individual notions of distributive justice and relative economic status
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2011-09)
We present two experiments designed to investigate whether individuals’ notions of distributive justice are associated with their relative (within-society) economic status. Each participant played a specially designed ...
Group size and decision rules in legislative bargaining
(2014-03-17)
We conduct experiments to investigate the effects of different majority requirements on bargaining outcomes in small and large groups. In particular, we use a Baron-Ferejohn protocol and investigate the effects
of decision ...
A review on Estimation of Distribution Algorithms in Permutation-based Combinatorial Optimization Problems
(2011)
Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) are a set of algorithms
that belong to the field of Evolutionary Computation. Characterized by the use of
probabilistic models to represent the solutions and the dependencies ...
Konputagarritasunerako oinarrizko teknikak
(2017)
Konputagarritasunaren Teoriak sistema informatikoek algoritmoen diseinuaren bitartez problemak ebaztean dituzten muga logikoak ezartzea du helburu. Txosten honetan teoria horren alderdi sinpleena aztertzen da. Konputagar ...
A new solution for the roommate problem: The Q-stable matchings
(Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, 2014-09-16)
The aim of this paper is to propose a new solution for the roommate problem with strict preferences. We introduce the solution of maximum irreversibility and consider almost stable matchings (Abraham et al. [2])and maximum ...
On demand translation for querying incompletely aligned datasets
(2014-12-01)
More and more users aim at taking advantage of the existing Linked Open Data environment to formulate a query over a dataset and to then try to process the same query over different datasets, one after another, in order ...
Business cycles in a small open economy: The case of Hong Kong
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2011-12)
This paper analyzes the business cycle properties of the Hong Kong economy during the 1982-2004 period, which includes the financial crisis experienced in 1997-98. We show that output, output growth rate and real interest ...
New Keynesian Model Features that Can Reproduce Lead, Lag and Persistence Patterns
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-04)
This paper uses a new method for describing dynamic comovement and persistence in economic time series which builds on the contemporaneous forecast error method developed in den Haan (2000). This data description method ...