Recent literature on computational notions of fairness has been broadly divided into two distinct camps, supporting interventions that address either individual-based or group-based fairness. Rather than privilege a single de€nition, we seek to resolve both within the particular domain of employment discrimination. To this end, we construct a dual labor market model composed of a Temporary Labo...

We propose a pseudo-market mechanism for no-transfer allocation of indivisible objects that honors priorities such as those in school choice. Agents are given token money, face priority-specific prices, and buy utility-maximizing assignments. The mechanism is asymptotically incentive compatible, and the resulting assignments are fair and constrained Pareto efficient. Hylland and Zeckhauser (197...

Pattanaik and Peleg (1986) imposed regularity, ex-post Pareto optimality and independence of irrelevant alternatives on a probabilistic voting procedure and showed that: (i) the distribution of coalitional power for decisiveness in two-alternative feasible sets is subadditive in general, but additive if the universal set has at least four alternatives; and (ii) the distribution of coalitional p...

This paper introduces a new similarity measure called weighted profile intersection (WPI) for profile-based authorship attribution (PBAA). Authorship attribution (AA) is the task of determining which, from a set of candidate authors, wrote a given document. Under PBAA an author’s profile is created by combining information extracted from sample documents written by the author of interest. An un...

The stock market, take-over bidders, executive pay setters, perhaps Stephen Littlechild himself, even last summer’s weather, all seem to have been undermining RPI–X price-cap regulation. Until recently, price-cap regulation was regarded as demonstrably superior to US-style rate-of-return regulation, and regulatory reform in several countries has embraced price-cap regulation. But in Britain, wh...

In recent contributions to the theory of public pension systems it was argued that a Paretoimproving transition from an established unfunded pension system to a funded one is possible. This result is derived in an overlapping-generations model with identical individuals. In the present study an extended model, with differing individuals, of an intragenerationally fair unfunded pension scheme is...

When aggregating preferences of agents via voting, two desirable goals are to incentivize agents to participate in the voting process and then identify outcomes that are Pareto efficient. We consider participation as formalized by Brandl, Brandt, and Hofbauer (2015) based on the stochastic dominance (SD) relation. We formulate a new rule called RMEC (Rank Maximal Equal Contribution) that satisf...

Most legal academics and policymakers believe that weight should be accorded to conceptions of fairness in evaluating legal policies. We explain, however, that adherence to any notion of fairness will sometimes lead to a conflict with the Pareto principle. That is, to endorse a notion of fairness is to endorse the view that it can be desirable to adopt a legal rule that will reduce the well-bei...

We consider turn-based stochastic games whose winning conditions are conjunctions of satisfaction objectives for long-run average rewards, and address the problem of finding a strategy that almost surely maintains the averages above a given multi-dimensional threshold vector. We show that strategies constructed from Pareto set approximations of expected energy objectives are ε-optimal for the c...

For any multilateral matching problem with dichotomous preferences, in the sense that agents are indifferent between all acceptable teams, there exist some strategy proof, individually rational and efficient mechanisms. Moreover some random matching mechanisms simultaneously satisfy the three crucial desiderata of mechanism design: efficiency, fairness and strategyproofness, which typically con...