Suppose an urn contains n sets of beads, each set of size k. Beads are drawn from the urn one at a time without replacement. We derive a closed-form expression for the expected number of draws required to completely remove the first k-set, the second, the third, etc. We accomplish this by recasting the problem as a special kind of random walk through the integer points in [0, k]n and exploiting...

Do affirmative action measures for women in politics change the way constituents view and interact with their female representatives? A subnational randomized policy experiment in Lesotho with single-member districts reserved for female community councilors provides causal evidence to this question. Using survey data, I find that having a quota-mandated female representative either has no effec...

Quota restrictions on United States imports of apparel and textiles under the multifiber arrangement (MFA) ended abruptly in January 2005. This change in policy was large, predetermined, and fully anticipated, making it an ideal natural experiment for testing the theory of trade policy. Prices of quota-constrained categories from China fell by 38% in 2005, with smaller declines from other expor...

We compare taxes and quotas where a regulator and a non-strategic firm have asymmetric information about a pollution-producing activity. In previous studies, optimal quotas are generally assumed to bind with probability one. We analyze the conditions under which a quota that binds with probability less than one is optimal. A quota that may be slack can be targeted towards some firms whilst allo...

In this paper we compare and contrast the political viability of bilateral Free Trade Area (FTA) Agreements in the presence of tariffs and quotas. Assuming that the government maximizes a weighted sum of welfare and producer profits, we show that the political viability of FTAs varies according to whether trade restrictions take the form of tariffs or quotas. A key result is that whereas an FTA...

A proposal in a weighted voting game is accepted if the sum of the (non-negative) weights of the “yea” voters is at least as large as a given quota. Several authors have considered representations of weighted voting games with minimum sum, where the weights and the quota are restricted to be integers. In [Freixas and Molinero(2009)] the authors have classified all weighted voting games without ...

For the many-to-one matching model in which firms have substitutable and quota q−separable preferences over subsets of workers we show that the workers-optimal stable mechanism is group strategy-proof for the workers. Therefore, in centralized markets like entry-level professional labor markets if the proposed matching is the workers-optimal stable matching then, no group of workers can never b...

Optimal tariffs and quotas are comgared for a large country under uncertainty. If the import supply schedule has constant elastjcity and is subject to multiplicative uncertainty and domestic demand is random then the optimal policy is a fixed +.d valorem tariff. If the supply schedule has constant elasticity but this elasticity is random then the optimal tariff is superior to the optimal quota....

We propose a new method for conducting Single Transferable Vote (STV) elections and provide a unified method for describing classic STV procedures (the Gregory Method, the Inclusive Gregory Method and the Weighted Inclusive Gregory Method) as an iterative procedure. We also propose a modification for quota definition that improves the theoretical properties of the procedures. The method is just...

Penrose's limit theorem (PLT, really a conjecture) states that the relative power measure of two voters tends asymptotically to their relative voting weight (number of votes). This property approximately holds in most of real life and in randomly generated WVGs for various measures of voting power. Lindner and Machover prove it for some special cases; amongst others they give a condition for th...