The intractability in cooperative, decentralized control models is mainly due to prohibitive memory requirements in both optimal policies and value functions. The complexity analysis has emerged as the standard method to estimating the memory needed for solving a given computational problem, but complexity results may be somewhat limited. This paper introduces a general methodology— structural ...

We study whether people fail to choose e¢ cient policies (or institutions) and the reasons why such failure may arise. More precisely, we experimentally show that a large proportion of people vote against policies that would help them overcome social dilemmas. In addition, we show that this is linked to subjects failing to fully anticipate the equilibrium e¤ects of policies. By eliciting subjec...

Larger units, vertical integration, and other structural changes to the swine industry are controversial in Minnesota as elsewhere. I'm frequently asked how public policies might be modified in order to influence these changes. My response is that we need to understand how government policies may have played a role in triggering past changes in the livestock industry so that we are in a better ...

This chapter reviews the evidence on the potential effect of pro-growth structural reforms on wage dispersion and household income inequality and examines whether specific policies driving GDP growth over the past decades may have also contributed to widening inequalities. In doing so, it distinguishes between the main channels via which policies affect growth and income distribution and identi...

INTRODUCTION Attention to the negative effects of structural barriers on HIV efforts is increasing. Reviewing national legal and policy environments with attention to the international human rights commitments of states is a means of assessing and providing focus for addressing these barriers to effective HIV responses. METHODS Law and policy data from the 171 countries reporting under the De...