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Are the loans of state-owned banks politically motivated?
This paper investigates the relationship between annual disbursements of Brazil’s largest development bank, BNDES, and mayors political affiliation....
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Bayesian diagnostics in a partially linear model with first-order autoregressive skew-normal errors
This paper studies a Bayesian local influence method to detect influential observations in a partially linear model with first-order autoregressive...
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Artificial intelligence and shapeshifting capitalism
Artificial intelligence (AI) is anticipated to reshape the economy by revolutionizing human interaction with technology. Despite its significance,...
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The life care annuity: enhancing product features and refining pricing methods
The state-of-the-art proposes life care annuities, that have been recently designed as variable annuity contracts with Long-Term Care payouts and...
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Cross-generational Smong narratives in Aceh’s tsunami resilience
Smong is an indigenous knowledge of the Simeuluean people related to tsunamis, which proved to be successful in saving lives during the 2004 Indian...
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Empirical likelihood change point detection in quantile regression models
Quantile regression is an extension of linear regression which estimates a conditional quantile of interest. In this paper, we propose an empirical...
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Accrual Quality, Cost of Debt, and Credit Spread and Loss
Our study presents a method to dissect bond excess returns into components influenced by credit spreads and credit losses. Analyzing data spanning...
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Feudal political economy
How is order achieved in a realm in which every elite commands both economic and military resources, and no stable institutions of power exist? We...
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Probabilistic models of profiles for voting by evaluation
Considering voting rules based on evaluation inputs rather than preference rankings modifies the paradigm of probabilistic studies of voting...
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Partitionable choice functions and stability
We consider the two-sided many-to-one matching problem and introduce a class of preferences reflecting natural forms of complementarities. For...
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A Time-Periodic Parabolic Eigenvalue Problem on Finite Networks and Its Applications
In this paper, we investigate the eigenvalue problem of a time-periodic parabolic operator on a finite network. The network under consideration can...
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Calling “Gevald”: on the emergence of negative election forecasts in partisan communications
Individuals were found to anonymously predict positive election outcomes for their preferred candidate. Yet, there is little scientific knowledge...
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Blame and praise: responsibility attribution patterns in decision chains
How do people attribute responsibility when an outcome is not caused by an individual but results from a decision chain involving several people? We...
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Simulating the industrial revolution: a history-friendly model
In this paper, we present a first modelization of Allen’s argument on the British industrial revolution with a history-friendly model heuristic. To...
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Padding and pruning: gerrymandering under turnout heterogeneity
Padding is the practice of adding nonvoters (e.g., noncitizens or disenfranchised prisoners) to an electoral district in order to ensure that the...
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Persistence or decay of strategic asymmetric dominance in repeated dyadic games?
In a dyadic game, strategic asymmetric dominance occurs when a player’s preference for one strategy A relative to another B is systematically...
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Sophisticated reasoning, learning, and equilibrium in repeated games with imperfect feedback
We analyze the infinite repetition with imperfect feedback of a simultaneous or sequential game, assuming that players are strategically...
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Dynamically consistent menu preferences
We provide a unified analysis of dynamically consistent menu preferences in which an agent may exhibit a preference for flexibility, a preference for...
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Generalized welfare lower bounds and strategyproofness in sequencing problems
In an environment with private information, we study the class of sequencing problems with welfare lower bounds. The “generalized welfare lower...
