In the present work we built a simulation in which a some reactive agents at each step take a binary; the agents in the minority win and get a payoff. The Minority Gamem in its original formulation, states that there is no communication among the agents involved in the simulation; the idea in this paper is to introduce in the model a sort of a social network, in order to see how the links among...

This paper is the first to examine the causal relationship between trade openness and government size using both aggregate and disaggregated government expenditure data, including data on social security. Our results indicate that examining the relationship separately for functional categories of government expenditures and based on differences in incomes across countries provide important deta...

On Monday January 19, 2015 a story broke that the National Football League (NFL) had started an investigation into whether the New England Patriots deliberately deflated the footballs they used during their championship win over the Indianapolis Colts. Like an infectious disease, discussion regarding Deflategate grew rapidly on social media sites in the hours and days after the release of the s...

of thesis The prospect of a justification defence in cases of direct sex discrimination is universally criticised by academic commentators on the ground that it would subvert the goal of equality that underlies sex discrimination and equal treatment legislation. At the outset the thesis examines the differences between the sexes, how these differences can be used to explain the distinction betw...

In this paper we develop a framework of pro-social behaviour for understanding and explaining soccer fans’ intentions to buy shares from their club in order to provide assistance in times of financial need. Based on the theory of norms, two alternative versions of the framework are empirically tested. Our results yield support for a mediating role of personal norms in the relationship between s...

social determinants of health is one of the topics that has attracted researchers' attention in recent decades, which is consistent with it, the public health, as one of the influencing factors to quality of life is taken into consideration. the purpose of this study was to examine the impact of social well-being on quality of life among meshginshahr pnu students with using survey method. ...

In this paper we use data on five social inclusion indicators (poverty, inequality, unemployment, education and health) to assess and compare the performance of 15 European welfare states (EU15) over a twelve-year period from 1995 to 2006. Aggregate measures of performance are obtained using index number methods similar to those employed in the construction of the widely used Human Development ...

In this paper we ask whether some aspects of social security, namely its role as providing insurance against uncertain life spans is welfare enhancing. We pose and calibrate models with agents differing in age, sex and marital histories where we compare the implications of different social security policies under a variety of market structures. We find no support for social security policies fo...