We study in the laboratory a variant of the house allocation with existing tenants problem where subjects are partitioned into tiers with hierarchical privileges, and they know their position in the priority queue before making their decision. We evaluate the performance of the modified versions of three well-known mechanisms: Top Trading Cycle, Gale-Shapley and Random Serial Dictatorship with ...

Despite the third wave of democratization, dictatorships are still widespread global phenomena. However, in comparative research they are often treated merely as theoretical anomalies and empirical residual categories. By addressing this shortcoming, this research has three overall ambitions which are reached by reviewing, compiling and analyzing earlier research. First, different perspectives ...

In this paper we initiate a quantitative study of the decentralization of the governance structures of Bitcoin and Ethereum. In particular, we scraped the open-source repositories associated with their respective codebases and improvement proposals to find the number of people contributing to the code itself and to the overall discussion. We then present different metrics to quantify decentrali...

M o re t h a n 4 , 7 0 0 n e w a n d slightly used coats for people in n ee d of w in te r c lo th in g w e r e donated la s t s e m e s te r to se t a re c o rd in th e s e v e n th a n n u a l Project W arm th campaign, con­ ducted Oct. 28 to Dec. 6. C o m p e t i t i o n to c o l l e c t t h e coats was strong between some residence halls. Zahm Hall won with 898 coats with nearly four p e r ...

The software engineering discipline faces many challenges; one of the important challenges is managing the complexity of software [5]. We are building increasingly large and complex software systems, enabled by steady improvements in software engineering. Such systems encompass a substantial amount of inherent complexity ; partially inherent in the problem domain, and partially in the solution ...