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SCW
2012
IEEE
12 years 6 months ago
Index-number tests and the common-scaling social cost-of-living index
For a change in prices, the common-scaling social cost-of-living index is the equal scaling of each individual’s expenditure level needed to restore the level of social welfare ...
David I. Donaldson, Krishna Pendakur
SCW
2012
IEEE
12 years 6 months ago
Linear cost share equilibria and the veto power of the grand coalition
We consider pure exchange economies with finitely many private goods involving the choice of a public project. We discuss core-equivalence results in the general framework of non...
Maria Gabriella Graziano, Maria Romaniello
SBP
2012
Springer
12 years 6 months ago
Creating Interaction Environments: Defining a Two-Sided Market Model of the Development and Dominance of Platforms
Interactions between individuals, both economic and social, are increasingly mediated by technological systems. Such platforms facilitate interactions by controlling and regularizi...
Walter E. Beyeler, Andjelka Kelic, Patrick D. Finl...
SBP
2012
Springer
12 years 6 months ago
The Impact of Network Structure on the Perturbation Dynamics of a Multi-agent Economic Model
Complex adaptive systems (CAS) modeling has become a common tool to study the behavioral dynamics of agents in a broad range of disciplines from ecology to economics. Many modelers...
Marshall A. Kuypers, Walter E. Beyeler, Robert J. ...
SBP
2012
Springer
12 years 6 months ago
Addiction Dynamics May Explain the Slow Decline of Smoking Prevalence
The prevalence of cigarette smoking in the United States has declined very slowly over the last four decades, despite much effort by multiple governmental and non-governmental ins...
Gaurav Tuli, Madhav V. Marathe, S. S. Ravi, Samart...
SBP
2012
Springer
12 years 6 months ago
Opinion Dynamics in Gendered Social Networks: An Examination of Female Engagement Teams in Afghanistan
International forces in Afghanistan have experienced difficulties in developing constructive engagements with the Afghan population, an experience familiar to a wide range of inter...
Thomas W. Moore, Patrick D. Finley, Ryan J. Hammer...
SBP
2012
Springer
12 years 6 months ago
Lessons Learned in Using Social Media for Disaster Relief - ASU Crisis Response Game
In disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti and the tsunami in Japan, people used social media to ask for help or report injuries. The popularity, efficiency, and ease of use of s...
Mohammad Ali Abbasi, Shamanth Kumar, Jose Augusto ...
SBP
2012
Springer
12 years 6 months ago
Modeling Infection with Multi-agent Dynamics
Developing the ability to comprehensively study infections in small populations enables us to improve epidemic models and better advise individuals about potential risks to their h...
Wen Dong, Katherine Heller, Alex Pentland
SAC
2012
ACM
12 years 6 months ago
Local bandwidth selectors for deconvolution kernel density estimation
We consider kernel density estimation when the observations are contaminated by measurement errors. It is well known that the success of kernel estimators depends heavily on the c...
Achilleas Achilleos, Aurore Delaigle