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Aspek Pajak Pertambahan Nilai Pada Biro Perjalanan Wisata (Studi Kasus Pt V), Elsie Sylviana Kasim, Fildza Virginia Dec 2019

Aspek Pajak Pertambahan Nilai Pada Biro Perjalanan Wisata (Studi Kasus Pt V), Elsie Sylviana Kasim, Fildza Virginia

Jurnal Administrasi Bisnis Terapan

This study discusses the aspects of Value Added Tax on travel bureau (case study of PT V). Data collection techniques used in this study is literature studies (Library Research) and field studies (Field Research). The results of research and analysis can be concluded as follows The amount of tax base for submission which includes brokerage and/or agency services is replacement, amounting to 100% of the total cost. The amount of tax base of services that do not include brokerage services and/or agency using other values as the basis for the tax is 10%. Obstacles is the limitation of insight and …

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Kualitas Pelayanan Dalam Pengelolaan Surat Pd Pasar Jaya, Mohammad Ridha1, Desideria Eka Istiqomah Dec 2019

Kualitas Pelayanan Dalam Pengelolaan Surat Pd Pasar Jaya, Mohammad Ridha1, Desideria Eka Istiqomah

Jurnal Administrasi Bisnis Terapan

The Government of the Republic of Indonesia has established several business units in the form of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) and Regional-Owned Enterprises (BUMD). The management of BUMN and BUMD is the government's effort to directly control the business sectors which are very influential on the economy. To develop BUMN and BUMD, the government continuously conducts revitalization of business entity management, including in the administration sector. Good administration management is the key to success of BUMN and BUMD in order to become an institution that is able to develop. PD Pasar Jaya is one of the DKI Jakarta Province Regional-Owned Enterprises …

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Analisis Pemangku Kepentingan (Stakeholder) Pada Unit Hubungan Masyarakat (Humas) Dan Kesekretariatan Pt Semen Padang, Sherly Dwi Fedora, Risca Fleureta Hudiyono Dec 2019

Analisis Pemangku Kepentingan (Stakeholder) Pada Unit Hubungan Masyarakat (Humas) Dan Kesekretariatan Pt Semen Padang, Sherly Dwi Fedora, Risca Fleureta Hudiyono

Jurnal Administrasi Bisnis Terapan

This research aims to analyze stakeholders mapping of PT Semen Padang, related to financial assistance (sponsorship) event. Stakeholders data obtained from interviewing staff of Public Relation and Secretary Unit. Data then classified into stakeholder matrix based on their power and interest to the company. Interview result shows that PT Semen Padang has provided lots of financial assistance to its stakeholders who submit the proposal through Public Relation and Secretary Unit. Unfortunately, the company still doesn’t have stakeholder map as a basis for consideration of granting this financial assistance. However, based on the mapping/grouping result of company’s stakeholders, we find that …

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Diffusing New Media As Know-How Digital Communication In Troubleshoot Maintenance Of Pico Hydro Technology In Bengkulu, Indonesia, Naldo Naldo, Hardika Widi Satria, Dendy Adanta Departement Of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty Of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Warjito Warjito Dec 2019

Diffusing New Media As Know-How Digital Communication In Troubleshoot Maintenance Of Pico Hydro Technology In Bengkulu, Indonesia, Naldo Naldo, Hardika Widi Satria, Dendy Adanta Departement Of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty Of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Warjito Warjito

Jurnal Administrasi Bisnis Terapan

Communication has an important role for spreading messages and ideas through various mediums. This research explains the important role of new media in community engagement activities and the dissemination of new information, innovations and technologies that have been done in 2017, especially for the graphic design via the internet on Pico Hydro's information technology in Batu Roto village, Bengkulu province, Indonesia. Community involvement itself is based on a special multidisciplinary perspective of communication and engineering. Pico Hydro is commonly used worldwide to generate electricity in rural areas, making it very useful for rural electrification. We conduct research to meet the …

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Program Arsip Vital Sebagai Langkah Antisipasi Bencana Bagi Organisasi, Dyah Safitri Dec 2019

Program Arsip Vital Sebagai Langkah Antisipasi Bencana Bagi Organisasi, Dyah Safitri

Jurnal Administrasi Bisnis Terapan

The purpose of this article is to review the implementation of ANRI Regulation No. 49 of 2015 concerning the Vital Archive Program Guidelines. Use qualitative models and case studies by comparing the application of vital archive programs with state and other regulatory bodies such as the United Nations. It was found that there was no significant difference in the rules of the vital archive program only for access to vital archives. It was categorized that people were entitled to access vital archives, especially after a disaster. The practical purpose of this article is to show that a vital archive program …

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Tinjauan Waktu Penyediaan Berkas Rekam Medik Rawat Jalan Rumah Sakit X Di Tangerang Selatan, Supriadi Supriadi, Dian Putri Damayanti Dec 2019

Tinjauan Waktu Penyediaan Berkas Rekam Medik Rawat Jalan Rumah Sakit X Di Tangerang Selatan, Supriadi Supriadi, Dian Putri Damayanti

Jurnal Administrasi Bisnis Terapan

This study looked at the description of the time of the provision of medical records and the factors that cause delays in provision at X Hospital South Tangerang.This research is descriptive with a qualitative approach. The data used were 242 outpatient medical records which were measured at the time they were provided. The file was obtained for 6 days, starting Monday-Saturday from 09.30-12.00. Data is grouped into provision time groups ≤ 10 minutes and provision time groups >10 minutes. Then an in-depth interview with the head of the Medical Record Installation to get an overview of the causes of the …

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Cohesiveness Dan Peran Literasi Keuangan Dalam Meningkatkan Competitive Advantages Bumdes Merealisasikan Produk Unggulan Wisata Situ Cisanti, Deni Danial Kesa Dec 2019

Cohesiveness Dan Peran Literasi Keuangan Dalam Meningkatkan Competitive Advantages Bumdes Merealisasikan Produk Unggulan Wisata Situ Cisanti, Deni Danial Kesa

Jurnal Administrasi Bisnis Terapan

This paper discusses the ability of Village-Owned Enterprises (Bumdes) to use financial literacy instruments operating in Situ Cisanti. According to research findings Bumdes financial literacy increases with financial training, where the training trains management in making strategic decisions. The level of financial literacy or financial literacy of the stakeholders participating in this study is higher, and the tendency of participation rates is quite high when it is associated with investment and a sense of concern in actively advancing Village Owned Enterprises (cohesiveness). Communication and information barriers between organisations and the production department support the formation of superior products derived from …

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Analisis Beban Kerja Dengan Metode Time And Emotion Study Di Unit Sekretariat Rumah Sakit X, Nur Fadilah Dewi, Dwi Yulisty Cahya Hidayat Dec 2019

Analisis Beban Kerja Dengan Metode Time And Emotion Study Di Unit Sekretariat Rumah Sakit X, Nur Fadilah Dewi, Dwi Yulisty Cahya Hidayat

Jurnal Administrasi Bisnis Terapan

The mismatch between workload and number of secretarial staff is a problem that needs to be examined. This research aims to determine the workforce needs of the workload of employees in the X Hospital secretariat unit with the time and motion study method. Methodology: the study was conducted by cross sectional observational activity of the activities and workload of the secretariat personnel (three people) using the time and motion study method, observations were made on three activities namely productive, unproductive and personal activities. Form / check list and stopwatch are used to calculate the time needed for each activity, and …

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The Doors Of Perception, Gary Charness, Alessandro Sontuoso Dec 2019

The Doors Of Perception, Gary Charness, Alessandro Sontuoso

ESI Working Papers

We investigate how a player’s strategic behavior is affected by the set of notions she uses in thinking about the game, i.e., the “frame”. To do so, we consider matching games where two players are presented with a set of objects, from which each player must privately choose one (with the goal of matching the counterpart’s choice). We propose a novel theory positing that different player types are aware of different attributes of the strategy options, hence different frames; we then rationalize why differences in players’ frames may lead to differences in choice behavior. Unlike previous theories of framing, our …

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An Exploration Of Communication Ethics Scholarship And Economic Spheres, Andrew Tinker Dec 2019

An Exploration Of Communication Ethics Scholarship And Economic Spheres, Andrew Tinker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This project examines communication ethics scholarship to understand how economics is understood within the field and to establish coordinates for scholars to discuss economic spheres as phenomena that affect communication ethics. Scholars draw from the tradition of virtue ethics to mark communication ethics inquiry as that which explores the practices that protect and promote the “good.” Philosophers of communication and communication ethicists have developed paradigmatic metaphors for the field that allow us to understand the formation of ethical guidelines within communities both familial, corporate, and national, that promote and protect various goods. These metaphors include “hierarchy” and “sameness” from Charles …

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Working Paper No. 37, The American Opium Trade, Karson M. Pence Dec 2019

Working Paper No. 37, The American Opium Trade, Karson M. Pence

Working Papers in Economics

This inquiry seeks to establish that American merchants exacerbated China’s 19th century opium epidemic. Circumventing Britain’s monopoly of Indian opium, three men, Thomas Perkins, John Cushing, and Robert Forbes, played a key role in American consolidation of Turkish opium production. With malice and blatant disregard, numerous Americans pumped tens of thousands of chests of opium into China, creating fabulous riches and incredibly influential familial dynasties while simultaneously destroying the minds and bodies of an untold number of Chinese.

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Working Paper No. 40, The Rise And Fall Of Georgist Economic Thinking, Justin Pilarski Dec 2019

Working Paper No. 40, The Rise And Fall Of Georgist Economic Thinking, Justin Pilarski

Working Papers in Economics

This inquiry seeks to establish that Henry George’s writings advanced a distinct theory of political economy that benefited from a meteoric rise in popularity followed by a fall to irrelevance with the turn of the 20th century. During the depression decade of the 1870s, the efficacy of the laissez-faire economic system came into question, during this same timeframe neoclassical economics supplanted classical political economy. This inquiry considers both of George’s key works: Progress and Poverty [1879] and The Science of Political Economy [1898], establishing the distinct components of Georgist economic thought. This rise in ‘Georgism’ is evinced through the …

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Working Paper No. 42, Commodity Production As An Explanatory Variable In The Outbreak Of The American Civil War, Andrew Pope Dec 2019

Working Paper No. 42, Commodity Production As An Explanatory Variable In The Outbreak Of The American Civil War, Andrew Pope

Working Papers in Economics

This inquiry seeks to establish that the American South’s comparative advantage in primary commodity production can be identified as an explanatory variable in the outbreak of the American Civil War. In addition, this inquiry seeks to illustrate the positive historical correlation between a state’s reliance on primary commodity production and its propensity to generate extreme outcomes—namely, institutional inequality, conflict, and civil war. Furthermore, this inquiry seeks to demonstrate that civil wars can be primarily understood as a function of a rebelling force’s economic motivations and explores the concept of King Cotton, westward expansion, and the South’s ultimate secession from the …

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Working Paper No. 50, Alexis De Tocqueville On American 'Exceptionalism', Zachary Mckinster Dec 2019

Working Paper No. 50, Alexis De Tocqueville On American 'Exceptionalism', Zachary Mckinster

Working Papers in Economics

From early settlers to the sophisticated nuances and concerns facing Americans in his time, Alexis de Tocqueville authored a definitive piece on democracy as it emerged and was practiced in 19th century America. This inquiry seeks to establish that Tocqueville’s penetrating insights into the United States in its early decades assisted him in arriving at the notion of what is widely touted as American ‘Exceptionalism’. In the first half of the 19th century Tocqueville travelled widely, seeking to understand this republic and its constitutional emphases upon principles of democracy. Completing his tour, in 1835 Tocqueville published Democracy in America. It …

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An Inclusive Economic Paradigm Shift, Jonathan Talbot Dec 2019

An Inclusive Economic Paradigm Shift, Jonathan Talbot

Capstone Collection

In this paper, the author begins with the question of how we can recognize whether or not we are in an opportune time to re-evaluate our current economic system. Through a literature review the canvas is set for the surveys of 63 people from across the United States about the way they feel about the economic system within which we currently find ourselves. Through the survey, he establishes that people who report having had a harder time during the “economic recovery” of the Great Recession were more likely to act in the hopes of bettering their community than those who …

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Working Paper No. 39, Neoliberalism As A Variant Of Capitalism, Justin Pilarski Dec 2019

Working Paper No. 39, Neoliberalism As A Variant Of Capitalism, Justin Pilarski

Working Papers in Economics

Economic systems evolve over time in adapting to the needs and deficiency of the system. This inquiry seeks to establish Neoliberalism as—in the language of Barry Clark—a variant of capitalism that evolved out of retaliation of the regulated variant of capitalism. We utilize Barry Clark’s work on the evolution of economic systems in establishing the pattern of adaptation in American capitalism. Then we establish and analyze the neoliberal variant of capitalism in how this evolution retaliated against the existing system rather than adapting the preceding variant. We then consider how the economics profession reacted when the neoliberal economic policies failed …

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Predicting Market Trends: Effects Of Gdp And Pmi On Changes In Stock Closing Prices, Charley Renna Dec 2019

Predicting Market Trends: Effects Of Gdp And Pmi On Changes In Stock Closing Prices, Charley Renna

Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters

In an effort to learn more about the impact of certain economic variables on the stock market, I chose to analyze the impact that the Purchasing Managers’ Index and U.S. Gross Domestic Product have on three major stock indices: S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and Nasdaq 100. The PMI is an index of the direction of economic trends in the manufacturing and services sector. Released on the first business day of every month, it consists of a diffusion index that summarizes whether market conditions are expanding, staying the same, or contracting. An index level greater than 50 percent suggests …

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Analyzing The Necessity And Feasibility Of The Freedom Dividend, Patrick Hodson Dec 2019

Analyzing The Necessity And Feasibility Of The Freedom Dividend, Patrick Hodson

Theses/Capstones/Creative Projects

Job displacement stemming from automation has already taken away millions of jobs in the United States. Andrew Yang fears that future advancements could replace further jobs and exacerbate the wealth inequality already prevalent in our country. This has motivated his plan for change, the Freedom Dividend. This paper was designed to begin with an analysis of the motives for Yang’s plan. It then goes on to cover the details of his plan and assess the economic and administrative feasibility. The paper is concluded by looking at the potential outcomes of the plan and identifying major problem areas that need to …

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Using Behavior Economic Nudges To Facilitate Client Follow-Through In Financial Coaching, Charlene Hurst Dec 2019

Using Behavior Economic Nudges To Facilitate Client Follow-Through In Financial Coaching, Charlene Hurst

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

While benevolence-based programs have been a large part of meeting immediate financial needs of the poor, they lack the relational aspect needed to facilitate long-term behavior change. Recently many social service organizations have adopted financial coaching as a promising replacement for benevolence programming. The field of coaching has dealt with its own challenges. Most coaching practitioners surveyed in 2016 and 2019 acknowledged lack of client follow-through as their number one challenge. Behavior economics offered nudges as a solution. Nudges are cues placed within the physical environment to prod clients toward behavior change. A quantitative field study was conducted to evaluate …

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Harnessing The Power Of Social Incentives To Curb Shirking In Teams, Brice Corgnet, Brian C. Gunia, Roberto Hernán González Dec 2019

Harnessing The Power Of Social Incentives To Curb Shirking In Teams, Brice Corgnet, Brian C. Gunia, Roberto Hernán González

ESI Working Papers

We study several solutions to shirking in teams that trigger social incentives by reshaping the workplace social context. Using an experimental design, we manipulate social pressure at work by varying the type of workplace monitoring and the extent to which employees engage in social interaction. This design allows us to assess the effectiveness as well as the popularity of each solution. Despite similar effectiveness in boosting productivity across solutions, only organizational systems involving social interaction (via chat) were at least as popular as a baseline treatment. This suggests that any solution based on promoting social interaction is more likely to …

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News-Driven Expectations And Volatility Clustering, Sabiou M. Inoua Dec 2019

News-Driven Expectations And Volatility Clustering, Sabiou M. Inoua

ESI Working Papers

Financial volatility obeys two well-established empirical properties: it is fat-tailed (power-law distributed) and it tends to be clustered in time. Many interesting models have been proposed to account for these regularities, notably agent-based computational models, which typically invoke complicated mechanisms, however. It can be shown that trend-following speculation generates the power law in an intrinsic way. But this model cannot exaplain clustered volatility. This paper extends the model and offers a simple explanation for clustered volatility: the impact of exogenous news on traders’ expectations. Owing to the famous no-trade results, rational expectations, the dominant model of news-driven expectations, is hard …

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Price Signaling And Bargain Hunting In Markets With Partially Informed Populations, Mark Schneider, Daniel Graydon Stephenson Nov 2019

Price Signaling And Bargain Hunting In Markets With Partially Informed Populations, Mark Schneider, Daniel Graydon Stephenson

ESI Working Papers

Classical studies of asymmetric information focus on situations where only one side of a market is informed. This study experimentally investigates a more general case where some sellers are informed and some buyers are informed. We establish the existence of semiseparating perfect Bayesian equilibria where prices serve as informative signals of quality to uninformed buyers, while informed buyers can often leverage their informational advantage by purchasing high quality items from uninformed sellers at bargain prices. These models provide a rational foundation for the co-existence of bargains, price signaling, and Pareto efficiency in markets with asymmetric information. We test these theoretical …

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Identity And The Self-Reinforcing Effects Of Norm Compliance, Mark A. Pickup, Erik O. Kimbrough, Eline A. Rooij Nov 2019

Identity And The Self-Reinforcing Effects Of Norm Compliance, Mark A. Pickup, Erik O. Kimbrough, Eline A. Rooij

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

When making political and economic decisions (e.g., voting, donating money to a cause), individuals consider the expectations of groups with which they identify. These expectations are injunctive norms, shared beliefs about appropriate behavior for identity group members, and individuals' choices reflect trade‐offs between adherence to these norms and other preferences. We show that when those who identify moderately/strongly with the group pay a cost as a consequence of avoiding a norm violation, they subsequently view the norms as stronger than those that paid no cost. This is evident in their greater willingness to pay an additional cost to punish/reward other …

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Morocco’S Makhzen And The Challenge Of National Development, Zakaria Fatih Nov 2019

Morocco’S Makhzen And The Challenge Of National Development, Zakaria Fatih

Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective

This article explores the question of national development in Morocco considering the institution of the makhzen. It asserts that to adequately assess Morocco’s national development as a post-colonial country, it is necessary to rely on an economic model based in politics rather than in theories exclusively informed by classical and neoclassical economics. Among the key economists called upon to investigate the validity of politics in discussions of national development and income inequality are the following: Simon Kuznets, Thomas Piketty, W. A. Lewis, and the duo Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, all of whom continue a long tradition of economic …

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Do Appeals To Donor Benefits Raise More Money Than Appeals To Recipient Benefits? Evidence From A Natural Field Experiment With Pick.Click.Give., John A. List, James J. Murphy, Michael K. Price, Alexander G. James Nov 2019

Do Appeals To Donor Benefits Raise More Money Than Appeals To Recipient Benefits? Evidence From A Natural Field Experiment With Pick.Click.Give., John A. List, James J. Murphy, Michael K. Price, Alexander G. James

ESI Working Papers

We partnered with Alaska’s Pick.Click.Give. Charitable Contributions Program to implement a statewide natural field experiment with 540,000 Alaskans designed to explore whether targeted appeals emphasizing donor benefits through warm glow impact donations. Results highlight the relative import of appeals to self. Individuals who received such an appeal were 4.5 percent more likely to give and gave 20 percent more than counterparts in the control group. Yet, a message that instead appealed to recipient benefits had no effect on average donations relative to the control group. We also find evidence of long-run effects of warm glow appeals in the subsequent year.

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A Class Of N-Player Colonel Blotto Games With Multidimensional Private Information, Christian Ewerhart, Dan Kovenock Nov 2019

A Class Of N-Player Colonel Blotto Games With Multidimensional Private Information, Christian Ewerhart, Dan Kovenock

ESI Working Papers

We consider a class of incomplete-information Colonel Blotto games in which N ≥ 2 agents are engaged in (N + 1) battlefields. An agent’s vector of battlefield valuations is drawn from a generalized sphere in Lp-space. We identify a Bayes-Nash equilibrium in which any agent’s resource allocation to a given battlefield is strictly monotone in the agent’s valuation of that battlefield. In contrast to the single-unit case, however, agents never enjoy any information rent. We also outline an extension to networks of Blotto games.

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Cooperation In Indefinitely Repeated Helping Games: Existence And Characterization, Gabriele Camera, Alessandro Gioffré Nov 2019

Cooperation In Indefinitely Repeated Helping Games: Existence And Characterization, Gabriele Camera, Alessandro Gioffré

ESI Working Papers

Experiments that investigate the spontaneous emergence of money in laboratory societies rely on indefinitely repeated helping games with random matching (Camera et al., 2013; Camera and Casari, 2014). An important open issue is the lack of a general proof of existence of an equilibrium capable of supporting the efficient allocation under private monitoring, without money. Here, we fill this gap by offering a general proof, as well as by characterizing the efficient non-monetary equilibrium. This technique can be extended to study games with simultaneous actions.

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Kick-Starting Economic Growth: An Interview With Dr K. V. Subramanian, India's Chief Economic Advisor, K V Subramanian, Havovi Joshi Nov 2019

Kick-Starting Economic Growth: An Interview With Dr K. V. Subramanian, India's Chief Economic Advisor, K V Subramanian, Havovi Joshi

Asian Management Insights

Dr K. V. Subramanian emphasises the importance of higher investment rates, good quality loans, and structural reforms for boosting India’s economic growth.

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Rationalizable Implementation Of Correspondences, Takashi Kunimoto, Roberto Serrano Nov 2019

Rationalizable Implementation Of Correspondences, Takashi Kunimoto, Roberto Serrano

Research Collection School Of Economics

A new condition, which we call uniform monotonicity, is shown to be necessary and almost sufficient for rationalizable implementation of corre-spondences. Uniform monotonicity is much weaker than Maskin monotonic-ity and reduces to it in the case of functions. Maskin monotonicity, the key condition for Nash implementation, had also been shown to be necessary for rationalizable implementation of social choice functions. Our conclusion is that the conditions for rationalizable implementation are not only starkly different from, but also much weaker than those for Nash implementation, when we consider social choice correspondences. Thus, dropping rational ex-pectations significantly expands the class of rules …

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Strategically Simple Mechanisms, Tilman Börgers, Jiangtao Li Nov 2019

Strategically Simple Mechanisms, Tilman Börgers, Jiangtao Li

Research Collection School Of Economics

We define and investigate a property of mechanisms that we call "strategic simplicity," and that is meant to capture the idea that, in strategically simple mechanisms, strategic choices require limited strategic sophistication. We define a mechanism to be strategically simple if choices can be based on first-order beliefs about the other agents' preferences and first-order certainty about the other agents' rationality alone, and there is no need for agents to form higher-order beliefs, because such beliefs are irrelevant to the optimal strategies. All dominant strategy mechanisms are strategically simple. But many more mechanisms are strategically simple. In particular, strategically simple …

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