The first part of this paper presents a coalition formation method for multi-agent systems which finds a Pareto optimal solution without aggregating the preferences of the agents. This protocol is adapted to problems requiring coordination by coalition formation, where it is undesirable, or not possible, to aggregate the preferences of the agents. The second part proposes an extension of this m...

Over the last two decades, some Australian States and Territories have introduced Indigenous Justice Agreements (IJAs) and related strategic frameworks in the hope of addressing consistently high rates of Indigenous incarceration and improving justice service delivery to Indigenous people. Drawing on earlier research by the authors,3 this Research Brief provides an overview and analysis of the ...

The paper considers collective agreements that are signed by a government agency and an industry which have an energy saving target. The target achievement is observable, but the energy saving actions undertaken by firms in the industry are not. We consider such agreements as firm contracts that depend on whether the industry complies with the target or not. We show that first best regulation c...


 This study aims to analyze the factors that cause collaborative governance in relaxing UN collection for taxpayers affected by COVID-19 Bekasi City which has not run well and optimally. The research method used this is a mixed method, approach model combines qualitative quantitative approach. As result, efforts can be made so of land building taxes Covid-19 have optimally, namely providi...

Indonesia is a developing country with various kinds of economic development. Bound by government regulations, the community cannot act arbitrarily and must follow applicable norms. The in an effort to equalize welfare its people frees manage their funds or loans collateral. purpose this study understand legal construction non-contractual debt agreements collateral analyze protection for partie...

We study the incentives of oligopolistic firms to share private information on demand parameters. Differently from previous studies, we consider bilateral sharing agreements, by which firms commit at the ex-ante stage to truthfully share information. We show that if signals are i.i.d., then pairwise stable networks of sharing agreements are either empty or made of fully connected components of ...

I. PRIVACY AS FINAL GOOD AND INTERMEDIATE GOOD .............. 251 II. TREATING PRIVACY AS A FINAL GOOD WITH CONSUMER SOVEREIGNTY: INITIAL AGREEMENTS ....................................... 253 A. How Initial Agreements Can Work Well ............................. 254 B. How Initial Agreements Can Fail ....................................... 256 III. MODIFYING POLICIES LATER ........................

many countries are turning their attention to the use of explicit financial incentives to drive desired improvements in healthcare performance. however, we have only a weak evidence-base to inform policy in this area. the research challenge is to generate robust evidence on what financial incentives work, under what circumstances, for whom and with what intended and unintended consequences.

The aim of this paper is to show that conventions are sources of tacit agreements. Such agreements are tacit in the sense that they are implicated by what the agents do (or forbear to do) though without that any communication between them be necessary. Conventions are sources of tacit agreements under two substantial assumptions: (1) that there is a salient interpretation, in some contexts, of ...

A formal framework for the treatment of hierarchical coalition formation and hierarchical agreements under both the bargaining and blocking approaches to coalition formation is introduced, and some first positive results on the possibility of full agreement and the efficiency of hierarchical agreements in face of externalities are given. In particular, it is shown that the possibility of hierar...