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Some fine-tuning for dominant diagonal matrices
(Elsevier, 1989-09)
Given a linear system Ax = b, where A is a dominant diagonal matrix with positive diagonals and non-positive off-diagonals, but b has both positive and negative components, necessary and sufficient conditions on bj are ...
Counting Groves-Ledyard equilibria via degree theory
(Elsevier, 1983-10)
We study the Groves-Ledyard mechanism for determining optimal amounts of public goods in economies whose agents have the most general class of preferences for which a Pareto amount of public goods can be computed independently ...
The spread and persistence of infectious diseases in structured populations
(Elsevier, 1988)
A basic assumption of many epidemic models is that populations are composed of a homogeneous group of randomly mixing individuals. This is not a realistic assumption. Most actual populations are divided into a number of ...
Electoral and welfare consequences of political manipulation of the economy
(Elsevier, 1985-06)
This paper examines the long-term electoral and welfare consequences of repeated strategies whereby a political office-holder induces cycles in economic variables to maximize his chances of re-election. Unlike other studies ...
Investigating the causal association between unionism and organizational effectiveness
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Agathon Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1985-12)
In an earlier study, a negative relationship was found between faculty unionism and organizational effectiveness in colleges and universities. No research, however, has ever investigated potential causality in this ...