Migration with local public goods and the gains from changing places

Local Public Goods and Clubs1

“ Duplication of Public Goods : An Evaluation of the Welfare Gains from the proposed

Echostar and DirecTV, the two primary Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) companies serving the US, claim that efficiencies from their proposed merger would result from the redeployment of transmission capacity to avoid signal duplication. Currently, both companies use transmission capacity to deliver most of same television channels to many US cities. In particular, they both transmit the local p...

Coalition formation with local public goods and group-size effect

Many public goods that are provided by coalitions have a group-size e¤ect. Namely, people prefer to consume a public good in a larger coalition. This paper studies local public goods games with anonymous and separable group-size e¤ect. The core is nonempty when coalition feasible sets are monotonic and players’preferences over public goods satisfy a condition called cardinal connectedness. More...

Changing places

The announcement this spring followed months of speculation: Kim Nasmyth will assume the Whitley Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford at the start of 2006, taking over from Ed Southern. Nasmyth is presently Director of the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna and is well known for his work on the yeast cell cycle and chromosome segregation (for more details see Curr. Bi...

Changing Places

By allowing any social institution to structure activity in any place, wireless information services break down the traditional mapping between institutions and places. This phenomenon greatly complicates the analysis of context for purposes of designing context-aware computing systems. Context has a physical, architectural aspect, but most aspects of context will also be defined in institution...