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34 p, 226.8 KB La Crema : a case study of mutual fire insurance / Cabrales, Antonio 1964- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) ; Calvó-Armengol, Antoni (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) ; Jackson, Matthew O. (California Institute of Technology (Estats Units d'Amèrica))
We analyze a mutual fire insurance mechanism used in Andorra, which is called La Crema in the local language. This mechanism relies on households' announced property values to determine how much a household is reimbursed in the case of a fire and how payments are apportioned among other households. [...]
honestly report the true value of their property. However, such honest reporting is not an equilibrium except in the extreme case in which the property values are identical for all households. Nevertheless, as the size of the society becomes large, the benefits from deviating from truthful reporting vanish, and all the nondegenerate equilibria of the mechanism are nearly truthful and approximately Pareto efficient.

2003 - 10.1086/367680
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 111 Núm. 2 (2003) , p. 425-458  
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32 p, 277.3 KB An undominated Nash equilibrium for voting by committees with exit / Massó, Jordi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica) ; Neme, Alejandro (Universidad Nacional de San Luis (Argentina)) ; Berga, Dolors (Universitat de Girona. Departament d'Economia) ; Bergantiños, Gustavo (Universidade de Vigo)
We consider the problem of a society whose members choose, with a voting by committees, a subset of new members from a given set of candidates. After knowing the elected candidates, former members may decide either stay or exit the society. [...]
2007 - 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2007.03.004
Mathematical social sciences, Vol. 54 Núm. 2 (September 2007) , p. 152-175  
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38 p, 1.5 MB Endeavouring to be in the good books : awarding DTN network use for acknowledging the reception of bundles / Sánchez-Carmona, Adrián (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Enginyeria de la Informació i de les Comunicacions) ; Robles, Sergi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Enginyeria de la Informació i de les Comunicacions) ; Borrego Iglesias, Carlos (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Enginyeria de la Informació i de les Comunicacions)
This paper describes an incentive scheme for promoting the cooperation, and, therefore, avoiding selfish behaviours, in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN) by rewarding participant nodes with cryptographic keys that will be required for sending bundles. [...]
2015 - 10.1016/j.comnet.2015.03.007
Computer networks, Vol. 83 (June 2015) , p. 149-166  

Research literature 2 records found  
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39 p, 256.9 KB On the rule of k names / Barberà, Salvador 1946- (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica) ; Coelho, Danilo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica) ; Centre de Referència en Economia Analítica
The rule of k names can be described as follows: given a set of candidates for office, a committee chooses k members from this set by voting, and makes a list with their names. Then a single individual from outside the committee selects one of the listed names for the office. [...]
Barcelona Barcelona School of Economics, 2007 (BSE working paper ; 264)
BSE Barcelona School of Economics Working Papers, 2004  
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6 p, 365.1 KB Source-based and residence-based capital income taxation in open economies / López García, Salvador ; Marchand, Maurice ; Pestieau, Pierre ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada 1997 (Document de treball (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; 97.06)  

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