Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama 338-8570, Japan Iwate Biotechnology Research Center, Kitakami, Iwate 024-0003, Japan Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Tech...

We consider a Bayesian public goods environment with independent private valuations. We fully characterize interim e cient allocation rules and prove that they correspond to decision rules based on a virtual cost-bene t criterion, together with the appropriate incentive taxes. Compared to the classical Lindahl-Samuelson solution there are generally distortions that depend on the welfare weights...

INRB-IP, Laboratório Nacional de Investigação Veterinária, Serviço de Micologia, Estrada de Benfica 701, 1549-011 Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologia, Campo Grande 376, 1749-024 Lisboa Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril, Avenida Condes de Barcelona, 2769-510 Estoril CIISA Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária TULisbon. Av. da Uni...

The Thick-Restart Lanczos (TRLan) method is an effective method for solving large-scale Hermitian eigenvalue problems. On a modern computer, communication can dominate the solution time of TRLan. To enhance the performance of TRLan, we develop CA-TRLan that integrates communication-avoiding techniques into TRLan. To study the numerical stability and solution time of CA-TRLan, we conduct numeric...

Since the publication of Chalmer’s influential work, The Conscious Mind (1996), it has been customary to divide the philosophical problems of consciousness into two groups. Whereas the so-called ‘hard problem’ of consciousness concerns the nature of phenomenal awareness and the first-person perspective, the ‘easy problems of consciousness’ mainly concern the notion of intentionality. But is it ...