New World Council

Dimension of the Lisbon voting rules in the EU Council: a challenge and new world record

The new voting system of the Council of the European Union cannot be represented as the intersection of six or fewer weighted games, i.e., its dimension is at least 7. This sets a new record for real-world voting bodies. A heuristic combination of different discrete optimization methods yields a representation as the intersection of 13 368 weighted games. Determination of the exact dimension is...

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Creating a New Design for the Council

http://www.eipa.nl The Council of the European Union has visibly changed in the Union of 25 Member States. Indeed, its increased diversity can be seen as soon as one enters the newlydecorated cafeteria on floor 50 of the Council’s headquarters in the Justus Lipsius building in Brussels, where every Member State contributed to the ‘new look’ by selecting one particular chair each. Diversity in c...

O Brave New World: The Dark Side of Cyberspace

This article focuses on some of the negative aspects of cyberspace andcyberculture. First, it offers an examination of the impact of our use ofsocial media, and Facebook in particular, on our psyches, pointing out thatusers of social media can be thought of as audiences. These audiencesand information about them can be sold to marketers and advertisers.Next, it offers a case study of a widespre...

Old World Econometrics and New World Theory

This paper summarizes recent work on the econometrics of identification in rational expectations models by myself and Andreas Beyer. In this work, we discuss the relationship between structure and reduced form in linear rational expectations models and we apply our analysis to a class of new Keynesian models that are frequently used to inform the policy debate. We argue that the identifying ass...