In this note we show that in a pure exchange economy with two agents and a finite number of goods, there exists no strategy-proof, Pareto efficient and nondictatorial social choice allocation function on any local Cobb-Douglas preference domain. This is a slight extension of a result proved by Hashimoto (2008).

This paper presents a continuous one parameter family of multivariate generalized Pareto distributions which describe the asymptotic behaviour of exceedances over linear thresholds. The one–dimensional theory has proved to be important in insurance, finance and risk management. The multivariate limit theory presented here is developed with similar applications in mind.

We consider the problem of designing a mechanism to allocate objects to agents when each agent has a quota that must be filled exactly. Agents are assumed to have responsive preferences over items. We show that the only strategy-proof, Pareto optimal, and nonbossy mechanisms are sequential dictatorships. We also show that the only strategy-proof, Pareto optimal, nonbossy, and neutral mechanisms...

In his pioneering article, (in ‘‘Decision and Organization’’ (C. B. McGuire and R. Radner, Eds.), pp. 297–336, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1972) Hurwicz establishes that there is no strategy-proof, Pareto-efficient, and individually rational rule for pure exchange economies with two agents and two goods, provided that the domain includes a sufficiently wide class of classical preferences. In this...

this study was conducted to evaluate the current management of furrow and border irrigation systems in the dez irrigation network. of the eight farms studied, three grew wheat and one each grew corn, sugar beets, lettuce, sesame and mung beans. the study found water application efficiency in the five farms with furrow irrigation systems to be 25.8% and for the three farms with border irrigation...

the first goal of the current research is to investigate the relation between the management styles and the managerial efficiency. the second goal of the research is to rank managers according to their managerial styles in the executive agencies in mazandaran. consequently, the data were gathered using questionnaires. the sample size was 150. the collected data were further analyzed by spss and...

the aim of this study was to assess the relative efficiency of the iranian forest management plans using the non-parametric method – data envelopment analysis (dea) as a well-known and robust technique for measuring the relative efficiency of organizations. the relative efficiency of forest management plans was calculated using the most frequency dea models such as global technical efficiency (...

We present a technique for adding global context to fully convolutional networks for semantic segmentation. The approach is simple, using the average feature for a layer to augment the features at each location. In addition, we study several idiosyncrasies of training, significantly increasing the performance of baseline networks (e.g. from FCN Long et al. (2014)). When we add our proposed glob...