Wolf winners

Wolf Wolf--The Ramifications of Frivolous Appeals

Allowing repeat winners

Unbiased lotteries seem the least unfair and simplest procedures to allocate scarce indivisible resources to those with equal claims. But, when lotteries are repeated, it is not immediately obvious whether prior winners should be included or excluded. As in design questions surrounding single-shot lotteries, considerations of self-interest and distributive social preferences may interact. We in...

Picking the winners

We analyze the problem of choosing the w contestants who will win a competition within a group of n > w competitors when all jurors commonly observe who the w best contestants are, but they may be biased. We study conditions on the con…guration of the jury so that it is possible to induce the jurors to always choose the best contestants, whoever they are. If the equilibrium concept is dominant ...

Merit Award Winners

Background: Metalloproteins are proteins capable of binding one or more metal ions, which may be required for their biological function, for regulation of their activities or for structural purposes. Metal-binding properties remain difficult to predict as well as to investigate experimentally at the whole-proteome level. Consequently, the current knowledge about metalloproteins is only partial....

On Lotteries with Unique Winners

Pr(unique winner) Pr(unique winnerjchoice is good) Pr(choice is good): The probability that the choice is good is at least 1 ? 1 p N , by the previous claim. In such a case we are exactly in the same situation as in the original lottery. By assumption, this lottery guarantees unique winner with probability at least 2=3 for any set of`participants, hence this is certainly true for a random set o...