On Kickstarter only 36% of crowdfunding campaigns successfully raise sufficient funds for their projects. In this paper, we explore the possibility of redistribution of crowdfunding donations to increase the chances of success. We define several intuitive redistribution policies and, using data from a real crowdfunding platform, LaunchGood, we assess the potential improvement in campaign fundra...

s t lcm lcm*2 lcm*4 gcd gcd/2 gcd/4 s t lcm lcm*2 lcm*4 gcd gcd/2 gcd/4 Table 1: Execution times (ms) for cyclic(s) to cyclic(t) redistribution on 32 processors. other block sizes t. Fig. 3 shows the total times in milliseconds for a cyclic(192) to cyclic(8) redistribution on 32 processors for increasing data sizes. This redistribution corresponds to the cyclic(Y t) to cyclic(t) case with Y = 2...

In a number of countries one observes a steady decline in defined benefits pensions schemes, public or private, funded or unfunded, and a simultaneous expansion of defined contributions plans. One of the consequences of this trend is to deprive individuals at the time of their retirement from the benefit of collective annuitization. Collective annuities can be distinguished from individual ones...

To what extent do preferences for redistribution reflect the private self-interest of the voter? Many political economy models assume that once private self-interest is properly accounted for, the residual variation in preferences for redistribution is negligible. Many theories outside of the traditional political economy literature assume that private self-interest is one among several motivat...