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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Voter Model"”.
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Permanent misperceptions and the public sector: the median voter model
… argued that because of the rational ignorance of voters and the costs of information about marginal tax-costs, individual voter-taxpayers could be fooled permanently about their respective tax-prices of public goods and services, In comparison, such misperceptions of prices were considered …
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Competition within random growth models
… with introducing competition into random models. It can be observed that there are two natural mechanisms for the evolution of a random model; either by growth or by self interactions. What we do is look at two types of models and introduce competition within them. The first model, the …
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Influence maximization over a network : static and dynamic policies
… inside a network, and then under the classical "Voter Model". In the former case, we design a policy that a controller can follow in order to spread an opinion inside a network with the smallest possible cost. In the latter case, we consider networks whose underlying graph is the d-dimensional …
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Essays in Experimental and Public Economics
… data to examine the effectiveness of the models. In the following I briefly summarize each of the papers.</p><p>Economists have long understood the challenges of providing proper incentives to groups, such as divisions or teams of a firm, that produce a joint product. The first paper …
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Applications of Spatial Models to Ecology and Social Systems
… particle systems have been applied to model the spread of infectious diseases and opinions, interactions between competing species, and evolution of forest landscapes. In this thesis, we study three spatial models arising from from ecology and social sciences. First, in a model …
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Collective Bargaining and Public Education Expenditures: Do Teachers’ Unions Propose and Voters Dispose?
… influence of the budget-maximizing bureaucracy model and the median voter model in explaining variations in public education expenditures. Drawing on existing classifications, it creates a more comprehensive classification of the strength of collective bargaining laws in different states. Using …
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Study of Critical Phenomena with Monte Carlo and Machine Learning Techniques
… dynamical properties of systems belonging to the Voter or the Directed Percolation (DP) universality class. To be more precise, we focus on the aging properties of two-state and three-state Potts models with absorbing states and we determine temporal scaling of autocorrelation and autoresponse …
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The Political Economy of U.S. Public Pension Plans and Their Unfunded Liabilities
… methodology of Congleton and Shughart (1990) to model underfunding of state-level public pension plans using the median voter theorem, along with the theory of "capture" by special interest groups, and a combined model of the two. With panel data from 2001 to 2009, the paper finds that the …
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Tax expenditure and tax prices
… as a welfare cost, can be incorporated into a model of individual tax-price determination. On the other hand, other authors have emphasized another tax-price implication of tax expenditures: that the introduction or extension of a tax expenditure changes the cost-shares faced by each taxpayer, …
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Μοντέλα ψηφοφόρων με παράμετρο εμπιστοσύνης
Με την βοήθεια τεχνικών για συστήματα αλληλεπιδρώντων σωματιδίων, σκιαγραφήθηκαν και αποδείχθηκαν θεωρήματα για μοντέλα γνώμης και πολιτιστικής δυναμικής. Τα χωρικά αυτά στοχαστικά μοντέλα εξετάζονται ως γενικεύσεις με μια παράμετρο εμπιστοσύνης ε του γνωστού μοντέλου ψηφοφόρου. Το κεντρικό ερώτημα …