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    • Cartwright, Edward; Wooders, Myrna (Vanderbilt University, 2005)
      Is conformity amongst similar individuals consistent with self-interested behavior? We consider a model of incomplete information in which each player receives a signal, interpreted as an allocation to a role, and can make ...
    • Daughety, Andrew F.; Reinganum, Jennifer F. (Vanderbilt University, 2006)
      Can the presence of private information in a transaction yield a Pareto-improvement over complete information? In this paper we show that the combination of multi-agent simultaneous signaling of private information, and ...
    • Buenrostro, Lucia; Dhillon, Amrita; Wooders, Myrna (Vanderbilt University, 2006)
      Protests take place for a variety of reasons. In this paper we focus on protests that have a well defined objective, that is in conflict with the objectives of the government. Hence the success or failure of a protest ...
    • Brett, Craig; Weymark, John A. (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-06)
      Comparative static properties of the solution to an optimal nonlinear income tax problem are provided for a model in which the government both designs an income tax schedule for redistributive purposes and provides a public ...
    • Weymark, John A. (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-04)
      A social choice function satisfies the tops-only property if the chosen alternative only depends on each person's report of his most-preferred alternatives on the range of this function. On many domains, strategy-proofness ...