Seminario 20/08: David Rodríguez-Justicia (URV): Voting with tax compliance: Ideological stances and tax morale

Votación_del_Congreso_Nacional_de_Chile_(1826)

Based on predictions from a theoretical model in which voters’ tax compliance behavior is driven by fairness concerns we empirically analyze the channels through which ideological stances influence citizens’ willingness to pay taxes. By using heteroskedasticity-based instrumental variables we find that ideological differences between citizens and their governments cause a decrease in tax morale. An…

Seminario 20/06: Jose Carlos Rodríguez Alcantud (Universidad de Salamanca): Simple majorities with voice but no vote

Votación_del_Congreso_Nacional_de_Chile_(1826)

Oligarchic majority rules bring the voice but no vote principle into effect. We prove characterizations of the oligarchic majority rules for both fixed and unrestricted societies and a binary agenda. This is a general class of rules that includes  the simple majority rule as well as dictatorships. Suitable sets of axioms identify a subsociety whose members have…

Seminario 20/01: Matilde Lafuente Lechuga( U. Murcia) ¿Son eficientes las comunidades autónomas en su gasto social?

Budget

Abstract: Las disparidades regionales en los niveles de riesgo social amenazan la cohesión social en España, sin que puedan ser explicadas por las diferencias territoriales en el gasto social per cápita. Se estiman cuatro modelos DEA, uno por cada gran área de la política de gasto social (salud, educación y protección social) y para el…

Seminario 19/36: Martine Labbé (Computer Science Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles INRIA, Lille) Bilevel optimisation and pricing problems

optimization

A bilevel optimization problem consists in an optimization problem in which some of the constraints specify that a subset of variables must be an optimal solution to another optimization problem. This paradigm is particularly appropriate to model competition between agents, a leader and a follower, acting sequentially. In this talk I will first focus the…

Seminario 19/29: Annick Laruelle (UPV/EHU). Cost-Benefit analysis in participatory budgeting

Presupuestos

Abstract: In participatory budgeting, citizens are invited to vote on different projects. Those with the most votes are chosen and implemented. The voting rules used in practice are usually based on single winner elections. A shortcoming of using these rules is that they do not take into account the costs of the projects, although those…

Seminario 19/28: Jose Luis García Lapresta (UVLL) – Escalas cualitativas no uniformes: un enfoque ordinal

Alternativas

Algunas de las escalas cualitativas utilizadas por diferentes instituciones y organismos no son uniformes: los agentes pueden percibir que la proximidad psicológica entre cada par de términos consecutivos de la escala no sea idéntica. En esta charla se abordan las escalas cualitativas no uniformes a través de la noción de medida de proximidad ordinal y…

Seminario 19/26: Javier Rubio-Herrero, St. Mary’s University,Texas (USA) Estimación de flujos desagregados de mercancías por medio de un algoritmo genético

genes

Presentamos un método para estimar de manera indirecta las cantidades transportadas de ciertos productos entre dos regiones en aquellos casos en los que solamente están disponibles los datos de la suma de sus flujos. Este método se basa en la aplicación de un modelo gravitacional clásico introducido en un problema de optimización. El objetivo de…

Seminario 19/23: Overqualification and skills mismatches among immigrants: the impact of host language proficiency

inmigracion

Abstract: Examining the determinants of qualification and skills mismatches has become a recurrent theme in the literature. Educational mismatches have serious consequences for individuals and can seriously hamper wages, job satisfaction and labour market prospects. These effects can be drammatical among immigrants, since they add up to an already disadvantaged position in the labour market….

Seminario 19/19: Carmen Herrero (Universidad de Alicante) The balanced worth: a procedure to evaluate performance in terms of ordered attributes

decision

There are many problems in the social sciences that refer to the evaluation of the relative performance of some populations when their members’ achievements are described by a distribution of outcomes over a set of ordered categories. A new method for the evaluation of this type of problems is presented here. That method, called balanced…

Seminario 19/13: Francisco Cabo (U. Valladolid) – Interaction and imitation between Sanchos and Quixotes: A misleading evolutionary equilibrium

Monumento_al_Quijote_y_Sancho

The paper analyzes the interaction between individuals belonging to two distinct populations, who share the same strategy set but differ in their payoff matrices. A two-population evolutionary game describes this interaction, that presents a double dimension. On the one hand, agents in one population play a game against individuals within their own and also the…