Mixed Signals on Summary Judgment

Corrected Order on Motion for Summary Judgment (LISA WALSH)

Order on Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment (EZGREEN ASSOCIATES, LLC)

Order on Motion for Summary Judgment (LISA WALSH)

Judgment aggregation without full rationality: a summary

Several recent results on the aggregation of judgments over logically connected propositions show that, under certain conditions, dictatorships are the only independent (i.e., propositionwise) aggregation rules generating fully rational (i.e., complete and consistent) collective judgments. A frequently mentioned route to avoid dictatorships is to allow incomplete collective judgments. We show t...

Mixed Signals

Plans for European Monetary Union are based on the conventional postulate that increasing the independence of the central bank can reduce inflation without any real economic effects. However, the theoretical and empirical bases for this claim rest on models of the economy that make unrealistic information assumptions and omit institutional variables other than the central bank. When the signali...