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On the threshold representation of partial orderings 关于偏序的阈值表示
IF 0.7 4区 经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2026.102516
Daniele Caliari , Davide Carpentiere
In this paper, we provide a constructive proof for threshold representations of partial orderings in a finite setting and extend the construction to arbitrary sets. This contributes to a long-standing open problem posed in Nakamura (2002) and Aleskerov et al. (2007). We identify and discuss aspects of our proof that do not directly generalize to an infinite setting and, for each, provide intuitive sufficient conditions.
本文给出了有限集合中偏序的阈值表示的构造证明,并将构造推广到任意集合。这导致了Nakamura(2002)和Aleskerov等人(2007)提出的一个长期存在的开放性问题。我们识别并讨论了我们的证明中不能直接推广到无限设置的方面,并为每个方面提供了直观的充分条件。
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The conceivable scope of negligence rules for internalizing multidirectional externalities 过失行为的可想象范围规定了多向外部性的内部化
IF 0.7 4区 经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2025.102493
Urs Schweizer
In this paper, a game-theoretic setting with transferable utility serves to explore the scope of damages rules for internalizing multidirectional external effects. From the legal perspective, damages rules aim at compensating victims for the wrongdoing of others (compensation requirement). Yet, to be held liable, it must be an agent’s wrongdoing that has caused harm to the victim (causation requirement). The two requirements can be at conflict when causation is meant in the sense of the but-for test. The paper proposes a causation test that resolves this conflict quite generally. It combines the legal idea of the NESS test with the Shapley value of a suitable characteristic function. The resulting damages rules fully internalize externalities even if they are of multidirectional nature.
本文在具有可转移效用的博弈论背景下,探讨了多向外部效应内部化的损害赔偿规则范围。从法律的角度来看,损害赔偿规则的目的是补偿受害者对他人的不法行为(赔偿要求)。然而,要承担责任,必须是代理人的不法行为对受害者造成了伤害(因果关系要求)。当因果关系的含义是“但为了”测试时,这两个要求可能会发生冲突。本文提出了一种因果关系检验,可以很普遍地解决这种冲突。它将NESS检验的法律思想与合适特征函数的Shapley值相结合。结果损害赔偿规则充分内部化了外部性,即使外部性是多向的。
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Skeptical and credulous belief updating under black box recommendations 怀疑和轻信的信念在黑盒建议下更新
IF 0.7 4区 经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2026.102502
Shohei Yanagita
This paper characterizes a simple model of belief updating in response to recommendations from black boxes, recommenders whose information-generating processes are complex and opaque. In particular, we focus on two types of reactions to recommendations. The first is a skeptical response, in which individuals receive recommendations that are highly inconsistent with their prior beliefs and respond skeptically by updating their beliefs conservatively. The second is a credulous response, in which individuals readily accept recommendations that are aligned with their prior beliefs. These two contrasting reactions are jointly captured under the resulting updating rule.
本文描述了一个简单的信念更新模型,以响应来自黑盒的推荐,黑盒的信息生成过程是复杂和不透明的。我们特别关注对推荐的两种反应。第一种是怀疑反应,个人收到与他们先前的信念高度不一致的建议,并通过保守地更新他们的信念来做出怀疑反应。第二种是轻信反应,个人很容易接受与他们先前信念一致的建议。这两种截然不同的反应在生成的更新规则下被联合捕获。
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Geographical poverty core formation in a spatial Solow growth model 空间Solow增长模型中的地理贫困核心形成
IF 0.7 4区 经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2026.102507
Gonzalo F. de-Córdoba , Gonzalo Galiano
This paper develops the concept of poverty core, a novel framework that extends the traditional notion of poverty traps by incorporating the dynamics of irreversibility and complete capital depletion. While poverty traps describe self-reinforcing cycles of deprivation that hinder economic mobility, a poverty core emerges when an already vulnerable system experiences a random exogenous shock—such as a natural disaster, armed conflict, financial collapse, or health crisis—that destroys natural, physical, and human capital beyond the threshold required for recovery. Unlike poverty traps, which may be escaped through gradual investment or policy intervention, a poverty core represents an absorbing state of destitution where normal economic mechanisms are no longer sufficient to restore livelihoods.
To formally model the transition from poverty traps to poverty cores, we extend the Solow growth framework by incorporating divergence operators and introducing a nonlinear depreciation function that accounts for capital depletion under extreme shocks. This modification captures how spatial and structural economic vulnerabilities amplify depreciation rates beyond sustainable levels, leading to economic divergence instead of convergence. The model demonstrates that under specific conditions—where capital loss surpasses a critical threshold—economic collapse becomes irreversible, mathematically distinguishing poverty cores from conventional poverty traps.
Our findings contribute to the literature on economic fragility, disaster-induced poverty, and sustainability by providing a new theoretical and mathematical framework to identify cases where poverty becomes irreversible. Recognizing poverty cores as distinct from traditional traps is essential for designing effective interventions in post-shock environments, ensuring that affected communities are not left in perpetual economic collapse.
本文发展了贫困核心的概念,这是一个新的框架,通过纳入不可逆性和完全资本枯竭的动态,扩展了传统的贫困陷阱概念。贫困陷阱描述的是阻碍经济流动性的自我强化的剥夺循环,而当一个已经脆弱的系统经历随机的外生冲击(如自然灾害、武装冲突、金融崩溃或健康危机),破坏自然、物质和人力资本超过恢复所需的阈值时,贫困核心就出现了。贫困陷阱可以通过逐步投资或政策干预来摆脱,与之不同的是,核心贫困是一种吸收贫困的状态,在这种状态下,正常的经济机制不再足以恢复生计。为了正式模拟从贫困陷阱到贫困核心的过渡,我们扩展了索洛增长框架,纳入了发散算子,并引入了一个非线性贬值函数,该函数考虑了极端冲击下的资本消耗。这一修正抓住了空间和结构性经济脆弱性如何将折旧率放大到超出可持续水平,从而导致经济分化而非趋同。该模型表明,在特定条件下——资本损失超过临界阈值——经济崩溃变得不可逆转,这在数学上区分了贫困核心和传统贫困陷阱。我们的研究结果通过提供新的理论和数学框架来识别贫困变得不可逆转的情况,为经济脆弱性、灾害引发的贫困和可持续性的文献做出了贡献。认识到贫困核心不同于传统陷阱,对于在震后环境中设计有效的干预措施,确保受影响社区不会陷入永久的经济崩溃至关重要。
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Market adjustment with advection and diffusion in excess demand 过剩需求平流扩散的市场调整
IF 0.7 4区 经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2026.102503
Hirokazu Sakane
Although it is extremely rare for real markets to adjust excess demand through the Walrasian tâtonnement, the standard in market adjustment theory, it is also true that excess demand is eventually eliminated. This gap suggests that some other factors, besides the price mechanism, contribute to adjusting excess demand. We hypothesize that consumers and firms, and therefore excess demand, spill over into neighboring markets in response to price differences that arise between markets. This motion must contribute to ameliorating excess demand. It is rational for some consumers (firms) to shift to markets where the prices of commodities are lower (higher) if price differences arise beyond those due to the characteristics of the commodities. Furthermore, excess demand fluctuates depending on the actions of consumers and firms. Thus, we study an economy in which excess demand advects and diffuses owing to price gradients. The application of partial differential equations is appropriate for this type of analysis.
Specifically, we model market price adjustment and the way consumers and firms respond by shifting toward other markets, thus causing excess demand to spill over and disperse. We represent these flows as advection and diffusion driven by price gradients and formalize their dynamics using partial differential equations. We prove that the competitive equilibrium price is locally and exponentially stable under certain conditions.
虽然现实市场通过市场调节理论中的标准瓦尔拉斯调节(Walrasian ttonement)来调节过剩需求的情况极为罕见,但过剩需求最终被消除也是事实。这一差距表明,除了价格机制之外,还有一些其他因素在调节过剩需求。我们假设,消费者和企业,以及因此产生的过剩需求,会对市场之间出现的价格差异做出反应,溢出到邻近的市场。这一举措必须有助于缓解过剩需求。对于一些消费者(公司)来说,如果价格差异超出了由于商品的特性而产生的价格差异,那么转移到商品价格较低(较高)的市场是合理的。此外,过剩需求随消费者和企业的行为而波动。因此,我们研究了一个由于价格梯度而产生和扩散过剩需求的经济体。偏微分方程的应用适合于这类分析。具体来说,我们模拟了市场价格调整以及消费者和企业转向其他市场的反应方式,从而导致过剩需求溢出和分散。我们将这些流动表示为价格梯度驱动的平流和扩散,并使用偏微分方程形式化它们的动力学。在一定条件下,证明了竞争均衡价格是局部指数稳定的。
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From neighbors to components: The equivalence of fairness for neighbors and gap preservation 从邻居到组件:邻居的公平性和间隙保留的等价性
IF 0.7 4区 经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2026.102510
Takaaki Abe
This paper investigates fairness principles in cooperative games with communication graphs. We show that several axioms – fairness for neighbors (Béal et al., 2012), splitting (Casajus, 2009), and a new axiom called gap preservation – are equivalent. Moreover, we show that fairness for neighbors, combined with either component efficiency or a weaker locality condition, guarantees the existence of a pairwise stable communication graph.
本文研究了带有通信图的合作博弈中的公平原则。我们证明了几个公理-邻居公平(bsamal等人,2012),分裂(Casajus, 2009)和一个称为间隙保留的新公理-是等效的。此外,我们证明了邻居的公平性,结合组件效率或较弱的局部性条件,保证了两两稳定通信图的存在。
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R&D cooperation and spillovers: When do research joint ventures improve welfare? 研发合作与溢出效应:研究合资企业何时能提高福利?
IF 0.7 4区 经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2025.102489
Yassine Badra , Bertrand Chopard , Huizhong Liu
This paper examines the strategic implications of research joint ventures (RJVs) in an oligopolistic setting with R&D spillovers, focusing on their impact on social welfare. Using the well-known R&D model of d’Aspremont–Jacquemin (AJ), we analyze different R&D cooperation structures: the non-cooperative regime, the R&D cartel regime, the cartelized RJV, and the non-cooperative RJV. Our findings challenge conventional views on the efficiency of RJVs. While the model of Kamien–Muller–Zang (KMZ) consistently predicts that RJVs lead to lower social welfare, we show that in the AJ framework, an RJV can outperform both the standard non-cooperative and cartel regimes when spillovers remain below a certain threshold. This result underscores the importance of model-specific assumptions in assessing R&D cooperation policies and offers valuable insights for industrial policy and antitrust regulation in innovation-driven markets.
本文研究了研究合资企业在具有研发溢出效应的寡头垄断环境下的战略含义,重点研究了它们对社会福利的影响。利用著名的D’aspremont - jacquemin (AJ) r&d模型,我们分析了不同的r&d合作结构:非合作体制、r&d卡特尔体制、卡特尔化RJV和非合作RJV。我们的发现挑战了传统的关于rjv效率的观点。虽然Kamien-Muller-Zang (KMZ)模型始终预测责任合资企业会导致较低的社会福利,但我们表明,在AJ框架下,当溢出效应低于某一阈值时,责任合资企业的表现可以优于标准的非合作和卡特尔制度。这一结果强调了模型特定假设在评估研发合作政策中的重要性,并为创新驱动市场中的产业政策和反垄断监管提供了有价值的见解。
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Less risk, more effort: How overconfidence reshapes tournament strategies 少冒险,多努力:过度自信如何重塑锦标赛策略
IF 0.7 4区 经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2025.102477
Noëmi Jacober, Luís Santos-Pinto
In many competitive settings, players must decide not only how hard to work but also how much risk to take. This paper shows that overconfidence—the tendency to overestimate one’s own ability—can lead to surprising strategic behavior in tournaments in which players make both risk and effort choices. We find two key results. First, overconfident players may adopt less risky strategies than rational ones, defying the common belief that overconfidence necessarily drives risk-taking. Second, when overconfident players adopt less risky strategies, they may exert greater effort, revealing a new mechanism by which overconfidence can enhance effort provision.
在许多竞争环境中,玩家不仅要决定自己的努力程度,还要决定承担多大的风险。这篇论文表明,过度自信——高估自己能力的倾向——会在比赛中导致令人惊讶的战略行为,在比赛中,玩家会做出风险和努力的选择。我们发现了两个关键结果。首先,过度自信的玩家可能会采取比理性的策略风险更小的策略,这违背了过度自信必然会推动冒险的普遍观点。第二,当过度自信的参与者采取风险较小的策略时,他们可能会付出更大的努力,这揭示了过度自信可以提高努力提供的新机制。
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Claim-strength problems and mixtures: An axiomatic study 索赔强度问题和混合物:一个公理研究
IF 0.7 4区 经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2025.102488
Frederik Van De Putte, Stefan Wintein
Claim-strength problems are a distinctive class of allocation problems in which the currency of claims is different from that of the estate that is to be divided. We study mixtures (i.e. convex combinations) of three basic allocation rules for claim-strength problems: the proportional rule, the uniform allocation rule, and the plurality allocation rule. We observe that any such mixture satisfies a generalized transfer axiom in addition to a number of invariance properties. We establish a fundamental representation theorem: taken jointly, these axioms fully characterize the class of all mixtures of the three base rules. This result is tight. From it, we derive characterizations of more specific classes and the three basic rules themselves. We moreover show that within the class of mixtures, the only three rules that satisfy a familiar consistency axiom are the base rules.
索赔强度问题是一类独特的分配问题,其中索赔的货币与要分割的遗产的货币不同。我们研究了索赔强度问题的三种基本分配规则的混合(即凸组合):比例规则、均匀分配规则和多数分配规则。我们观察到,任何这样的混合物除了满足一些不变性性质外,还满足一个广义转移公理。我们建立了一个基本表示定理:这些公理结合在一起,充分表征了这三个基本规则的所有混合的类。这个结果很紧。由此,我们推导出更具体类的特征和三个基本规则本身。此外,我们还证明了在混合类中,只有三个规则满足一个熟悉的相合公理是基本规则。
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Endogenous technology choice in contests 竞争中的内生技术选择
IF 0.7 4区 经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2025.102491
Doron Klunover
We consider a lottery contest between n risk-neutral symmetric players, who compete for a prize with a common value. Prior to exerting effort, each player chooses between an old technology, in which return on effort is certain, and a new technology, in which return on effort is uncertain but on average is equal to the return on effort in the old technology. We characterize symmetric and asymmetric equilibria and show that in equilibrium the new technology is adopted by a proper subset of the players. The results offer an explanation for endogenous emergence of asymmetric technologies in contests.
我们考虑在n个风险中立的对称参与者之间进行抽奖比赛,他们争夺具有共同值的奖品。在付出努力之前,每个玩家在一项老技术和一项新技术之间进行选择,前者的努力回报是确定的,后者的努力回报是不确定的,但平均而言与旧技术的努力回报相等。我们描述了对称均衡和非对称均衡,并证明了在均衡中新技术被适当的参与者子集所采用。研究结果为竞争中不对称技术的内生产生提供了解释。
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