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Simplex subtraction to estimate unanimity violations in sequential majority voting 单纯形减法估计顺序多数表决中一致意见的违反
IF 0.7 4区 经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-09-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2025.102462
Christian Klamler
Based on Saari’s geometry of voting (see Saari (1995)), we introduce a concise geometric “simplex subtraction” approach to measure the likelihood with which sequential majority voting overturns unanimous consent under the impartial anonymous culture assumption. This approach can be used as an alternative to Nehring et al. (2016) who establish worst-case bounds for discrete electorates. We treat vote shares as points in the reduced simplex after one candidate is unanimously rejected. By systematically removing the volumes of smaller corner sub-simplexes, we recover the probabilities determined by Nehring et al. (2016), which reaches its maximum for seven candidates. We then generalize our method to arbitrary supermajority rules and identify the exact threshold at which unanimity violations become impossible.
基于Saari的投票几何(见Saari(1995)),我们引入了一种简洁的几何“单纯形减法”方法来衡量在公正匿名文化假设下顺序多数投票推翻一致同意的可能性。这种方法可以作为Nehring等人(2016)的替代方案,他们为离散选民建立了最坏情况界限。在一个候选人被一致拒绝后,我们将投票份额视为简化单纯形中的点。通过系统地去除较小的角子简单体的体积,我们恢复了Nehring等人(2016)确定的概率,该概率在七个候选对象中达到最大值。然后,我们将我们的方法推广到任意的绝对多数规则,并确定一致违反成为不可能的确切阈值。
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Limited attention and models of choice: A behavioral equivalence 有限注意力和选择模型:行为等价
IF 0.7 4区 经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2025.102461
Davide Carpentiere, Angelo Enrico Petralia
We show that many models of choice can be alternatively represented as special cases of choice with limited attention (Masatlioglu, Nakajima, and Ozbay, 2012), singling out the properties of the unobserved attention filters that explain the observed choices. For each specification, information about the DM’s consideration sets and preference is inferred from violations of the contraction consistency axiom, and it is compared with the welfare indications obtained from equivalent models. Remarkably, limited attention always supports the elicitation of DM’s taste arising from alternative methods. Finally, we examine the intersections between subclasses, and we verify that each of them is independent of the others.
我们表明,许多选择模型可以替代地表示为具有有限注意力的选择的特殊情况(Masatlioglu, Nakajima和Ozbay, 2012),挑出未观察到的注意过滤器的属性来解释观察到的选择。对于每个规范,从违反收缩一致性公理中推断出决策者的考虑集和偏好信息,并将其与从等效模型中获得的福利指标进行比较。值得注意的是,有限的注意力总是支持由其他方法引起的DM味道的激发。最后,我们检查子类之间的交集,并验证它们中的每一个都是独立的。
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The dynamics of bargaining power in a principal-agent model 委托代理模型中议价能力的动态
IF 0.7 4区 经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-08-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2025.102452
Sonia Di Giannatale , Itza Tlaloc Quetzalcoatl Curiel-Cabral , Genaro Basulto
This article develops a dynamic principal–agent model that integrates bargaining power as an evolving state variable, governed by a bargaining drift coefficient that links its trajectory to firm performance and agent compensation. The model examines how initial bargaining power shapes salary trajectories and how bargaining drift influences its adaptation over time in response to performance outcomes. By modeling these dynamics, the study highlights the role of incentives in driving the evolution of bargaining power, emphasizing the long-term impact of initial conditions on compensation structures. A key contribution is the formulation of an empirical equation that connects agent compensation and performance with bargaining drift, offering a framework for real-world validation. Beyond CEO pay, the framework extends to other performance-based environments, such as sports and academia, where shifting power relationships shape long-term contracts. By introducing a computational algorithm for multiobjective optimization, the study enhances the practical implementation of bargaining power dynamics, offering valuable insights for both theoretical modeling and governance applications.
本文开发了一个动态委托代理模型,该模型将议价能力作为一个不断变化的状态变量,由议价漂移系数控制,该系数将其轨迹与企业绩效和代理人薪酬联系起来。该模型考察了初始议价能力如何塑造薪酬轨迹,以及议价漂移如何随着时间的推移影响其对绩效结果的适应。通过对这些动态建模,该研究强调了激励在推动议价能力演变中的作用,强调了初始条件对薪酬结构的长期影响。一个关键的贡献是建立了一个经验方程,将代理人的报酬和绩效与议价漂移联系起来,为现实世界的验证提供了一个框架。除了CEO薪酬,该框架还适用于其他基于绩效的环境,比如体育和学术界,在这些领域,权力关系的变化会影响长期合同。通过引入多目标优化的计算算法,该研究增强了议价能力动力学的实际实施,为理论建模和治理应用提供了有价值的见解。
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Same-sex marriage, the great equalizer 同性婚姻,伟大的均衡器
IF 0.7 4区 经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-08-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2025.102448
Alexei Parakhonyak , Sergey V. Popov
In a search and matching model with Nash bargaining, we find infinitely many asymmetric equilibria in which one sex receives a lower payoff than a similarly productive agent of the opposite sex. The mechanism resembles a social norm: if all agents on the opposite side of the marriage market become more demanding, continued searching yields diminished returns. However, if same-sex marriage is legalized and each side of the market includes a positive, arbitrarily small, share of bisexual agents, then only symmetric equilibria survive. This result highlights how restrictions on same-sex marriage reinforce asymmetries in opposite-sex matchings.
在纳什议价的搜索与匹配模型中,我们发现了无限多的不对称均衡,其中一方的收益低于另一方的收益。这种机制类似于一种社会规范:如果婚姻市场对面的所有代理人都变得更加苛刻,那么继续寻找的回报就会减少。然而,如果同性婚姻合法化,并且市场的每一方都包括一个正的、任意小的双性恋代理人份额,那么只有对称均衡存在。这一结果凸显了对同性婚姻的限制如何加剧了异性配对的不对称。
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A new value for cooperative games on intersection-closed systems 交闭系统上合作对策的一个新值
IF 0.7 4区 经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-08-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2025.102450
Martin Černý
In the model of cooperative games with restricted cooperation, certain coalitions are infeasible, meaning they cannot form, which directly influences payoff allocation. We consider a scenario where coalitions are no longer categorized as feasible or infeasible, but rather as known or unknown. In this setting, coalitions with unknown values are still feasible, but their values remain unknown in the allocation process. Classical allocation methods for games with restricted cooperation, such as the R-value, become unsuitable for such scenarios.
We introduce a new allocation rule called the uniform-dividend value (UD-value), designed specifically for cooperative games where some coalition values remain unknown (so-called incomplete cooperative games). The UD-value allocates payoffs by evenly distributing the total surplus within each group of indistinguishable coalitions. We demonstrate that for intersection-closed set systems, the UD-value is uniquely determined and can also be viewed as the expected Shapley value computed over all totally positive (i.e., nonnegative-surplus) extensions of the incomplete cooperative game. We compare the UD-value to two existing allocation rules for intersection-closed games: the R-value, defined as the Shapley value of a game that sets surplus of absent coalition values to zero, and the IC-value, tailored specifically for intersection-closed systems. Specifically, we provide axiomatic characterizations of the UD-value motivated by characterizations of the IC-value and discuss further properties such as fairness and balanced contributions.
在限制合作的合作博弈模型中,某些联盟是不可行的,即无法形成,这直接影响到收益分配。我们考虑这样一种情况,即联盟不再被划分为可行或不可行,而是已知或未知。在这种情况下,具有未知值的联盟仍然是可行的,但其值在分配过程中仍然是未知的。限制合作博弈的经典分配方法(如r值)不适合这种情况。我们引入了一种新的分配规则,称为一致红利值(UD-value),专门设计用于一些联盟值仍然未知的合作博弈(所谓的不完全合作博弈)。美元价值通过在每组不可区分的联盟中平均分配总盈余来分配收益。我们证明了对于相交闭集系统,ud值是唯一确定的,并且可以看作是在不完全合作对策的所有全正(即非负剩余)扩展上计算的期望Shapley值。我们将ud值与两个现有的交叉口封闭博弈分配规则进行比较:r值,定义为将缺席联盟值的盈余设置为零的博弈的Shapley值,以及ic值,专门为交叉口封闭系统量身定制。具体来说,我们提供了由ic值特征驱动的ud值的公理化特征,并进一步讨论了公平性和平衡贡献等性质。
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Conformism and name dynamics: A cliometric study of ancient Greek names 符合性与名称动力学:古希腊名称的地理计量学研究
IF 0.7 4区 经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2025.102451
Laurent Gauthier
Extending the sociological study of conformism in naming, we develop a dynamic model of name choice, reflecting conformist or non-conformist behavior. This allows us to account for more degrees of freedom than the statistical physics approaches that have generally been used in name modeling. Testing our model empirically, we find that conformist naming accounts for the unique shape of name distributions in ancient Greece, which differs from contemporary name data.
在命名从众的社会学研究的基础上,我们建立了一个反映从众或不从众行为的动态命名模型。这使我们能够考虑到比通常用于名称建模的统计物理方法更多的自由度。通过实证检验我们的模型,我们发现,从众命名解释了古希腊名字分布的独特形状,这与当代的名字数据不同。
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A look back at the core of games in characteristic function form: Some new axiomatization results 回顾特征函数形式下的游戏核心:一些新的公理化结果
IF 0.7 4区 经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2025.102447
Anindya Bhattacharya
The main contribution of this paper is to provide three new results axiomatizing the core of games in characteristic function form (not necessarily with transferable utility) obeying an innocuous condition (that the set of individually rational pay-off vectors is bounded). One novelty of this exercise is that our domain is the entire class of such games: i.e., restrictions like “non-levelness” (a restriction not very appealing in several real-life situations) or “balancedness”, usually imposed in the related literature, are not required.
这篇论文的主要贡献在于提供了三个新的结果,将游戏的核心公式化为特征函数形式(不一定具有可转移的效用),服从无害的条件(单个理性支付向量的集合是有界的)。这个练习的一个新颖之处在于,我们的领域是这类游戏的整个类别:也就是说,通常在相关文献中强加的“非平等性”或“平衡性”等限制并不是必需的。
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Envy-freeness and maximum Nash welfare for mixed divisible and indivisible goods 可分与不可分混合商品的无嫉妒性与最大纳什福利
IF 0.7 4区 经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2025.102449
Koichi Nishimura , Hanna Sumita
We study fair allocation of resources consisting of both divisible and indivisible goods to agents with additive valuations. When only divisible or indivisible goods exist, it is known that an allocation that achieves the maximum Nash welfare (MNW) satisfies the classic fairness notions based on envy. Moreover, the literature shows the structures and characterizations of MNW allocations when valuations are binary and linear (i.e., divisible goods are homogeneous). In this paper, we show that when all agents’ valuations are binary linear, an MNW allocation for mixed goods satisfies the envy-freeness up to any good for mixed goods (EFXM). This notion is stronger than an existing one called envy-freeness for mixed goods (EFM), and our result generalizes the existing results for the case when only divisible or indivisible goods exist. When all agents’ valuations are binary over indivisible goods and identical over divisible goods (e.g., the divisible good is money), we extend the known characterization of an MNW allocation for indivisible goods to mixed goods, and also show that an MNW allocation satisfies EFXM. For the general additive valuations, we also provide a formal proof that an MNW allocation satisfies a weaker notion than EFM.
我们研究了由可分商品和不可分商品组成的资源公平分配给具有附加价值的代理。当只有可分或不可分的商品存在时,已知实现纳什福利最大化的分配满足基于嫉妒的经典公平概念。此外,文献显示了二元和线性估值时MNW分配的结构和特征(即,可分商品是同质的)。在本文中,我们证明了当所有主体的估值都是二元线性时,混合商品的MNW分配满足混合商品的任意商品的嫉妒自由度(EFXM)。这个概念比现有的一个称为混合商品的嫉妒自由(EFM)的概念更强,并且我们的结果推广了只有可分或不可分商品存在的情况下的现有结果。当所有主体对不可分割商品的估价是二元的,而对可分割商品的估价是相同的(例如,可分割商品是货币),我们将不可分割商品的MNW分配的已知特征扩展到混合商品,并证明了MNW分配满足EFXM。对于一般的加性估值,我们还提供了一个形式证明,证明MNW分配满足比EFM更弱的概念。
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The use of symmetry for models with variable-size variables 对具有可变大小变量的模型使用对称性
IF 0.7 4区 经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-07-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2025.102437
Takeshi Fukasawa
This paper presents a universal representation of symmetric (permutation-invariant) functions with multidimensional variable-size variables. These representations help justify approximation methods that aggregate information from each variable using moments. It further discusses how these findings provide insights into game-theoretic applications, including two-step policy function estimation, Moment-based Markov Equilibrium (MME), and aggregative games.
Regarding policy function estimation, under certain conditions, estimating a common policy function as a function of a firm’s own state and the sum of polynomial terms (moments) of competitors’ states is justified, regardless of the number of firms in a market, provided a sufficient number of moments are included. For MME, this study demonstrates that MME is equivalent to Markov Perfect Equilibrium if the number of moments reaches a certain level and regularity conditions are satisfied.
Regarding aggregative games, the paper establishes that any game satisfying symmetry and continuity conditions in payoff functions can be represented as a multidimensional generalized aggregative game. This extends previous research on generalized (fully) aggregative games by introducing multidimensional aggregates.
本文给出了具有多维变大小变量的对称(置换不变)函数的一个通用表示。这些表示有助于证明使用矩聚合来自每个变量的信息的近似方法。它进一步讨论了这些发现如何为博弈论应用提供见解,包括两步策略函数估计,基于矩的马尔可夫均衡(MME)和聚合博弈。关于政策函数估计,在一定条件下,无论市场上有多少企业,只要包含足够数量的矩,都可以将公共政策函数估计为企业自身状态和竞争者状态多项式项(矩)之和的函数。对于MME,本研究表明,当矩数达到一定水平且满足正则性条件时,MME等价于Markov完美均衡。对于聚集对策,本文建立了任何满足支付函数对称性和连续性条件的对策都可以表示为多维广义聚集对策。这通过引入多维聚合扩展了之前关于广义(完全)聚合博弈的研究。
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A nonatomic game involving incomplete information and general ambiguity attitudes 一种包含不完全信息和一般模棱两可态度的非原子博弈
IF 0.7 4区 经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2025.102435
Jian Yang
We consider a nonatomic game involving incomplete information. On top of a player’s own action and the joint distribution of other players’ traits and actions, also influencing the player’s return is a state of the world that incorporates uncertain factors external to all players. Non-exact knowledge about the latter is embedded in a player’s signal. When other players adopt strategies that amount to signal-based action distributions, a given player’s action would be guided by her own preference on the vector made up of the distributions on returns that she anticipates to encounter under all potential states allowed by her signal. There can be two equilibrium notions; namely, the action- and distribution-based ones that depend on whether a player controls individual actions or merely their distributions. Besides the existence of equilibria, we also study relationships between the two equilibrium notions for various special cases. Furthermore, the nonatomic game is shown to approximate its finite counterparts.
我们考虑一个包含不完全信息的非原子博弈。除了玩家自己的行动以及其他玩家特征和行动的共同分布之外,影响玩家返回的还有包含所有玩家外部不确定因素的世界状态。关于后者的不精确的知识嵌入在玩家的信号中。当其他玩家采用的策略相当于基于信号的行动分布时,给定玩家的行动将受到其自身偏好向量的引导,该向量由其在信号允许的所有潜在状态下预期遇到的收益分布组成。有两种平衡概念;也就是说,基于行动和分布的模式取决于玩家是控制个人行动还是仅仅控制其分布。除了均衡的存在性外,我们还研究了各种特殊情况下这两个均衡概念之间的关系。进一步,证明了非原子对策近似于有限对策。
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