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Jack Meyer
Toulouse, France, 12–13 juillet 2012
Miles S. Kimball
Olivier Le Courtois
Richard Watt
Claudio Zoli
3 juillet 2012
Michel Le Breton, Dominique Lepelley et Hatem Smaoui
n° 12-313, juin 2012, révision avril 2014
The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the probability of casting a decisive vote for a class or random electorate models encompassing the celebrated IC and IAC models. The emphasis is on the impact of correlation across votes on the order of magnitude of this event. Our proof techniques use...
Jean-Paul Azam et Véronique Thelen
n° 12-316, juin 2012
A simple game-theoretic model is first presented to bring out the conditions for terrorist organizations to choose to perpetrate their attacks in a host country other than at home. This emphasizes the diluted impact of counter-terrorism measures implemented in the host-country on the number of...
Adrien Blanchet et Guillaume Carlier
n° 12-321, juin 2012
We study a class of games with a continuum of players for which Cournot-Nash equilibria can be obtained by the minimisation of some cost, related to optimal transport. This cost is not convex in the usual sense in general but it turns out to have hidden strict convexity properties in many relevant...
