Two agents are like-minded when their beliefs are equal once conditioned on knowledge of both of their types. Assuming the existence of an outside observer that is commonly known to be likeminded and uninformative about the insiders, we derive the existence of a common prior among the insiders, with the outsiders beliefs (appropriately conditioned) serving as the common prior. A key advantage o...

This paper focuses on newspapers as a scientific research source in the humanities. The purpose of this paper is to present a portion of the results obtained in the nationwide study which explored how Croatian humanities academics and scholars perceive and use (historical and current) newspapers. The study presented in this paper focused on two groups of researchers, historians and linguists, a...

The current art in optimal combinatorial auctions is limited to handling the case of single units of multiple items, with each bidder bidding on exactly one bundle (single minded bidders). This paper extends the current art by proposing an optimal auction for procuring multiple units of multiple items when the bidders are single minded. The auction minimizes the cost of procurement while satisf...