We examine the consequences of vote buying, assuming this practice were allowed and free of stigma. Two parties compete in a binary election and may purchase votes in a sequential bidding game via up-front binding payments and/or campaign promises (platforms) that are contingent upon the outcome of the election. We analyze the role of the parties’and voters’preferences in determining the winner...

A vote-buying mechanism is such that each agent chooses a quantity of votes x to cast for an alternative at a cost c(x), and the outcome is determined by the total number of votes cast for each alternative. In the context of binary decisions, we prove that the welfare optima that can be implemented by vote-buying mechanisms in large societies are parameterized by a positive parameter ρ, which m...

this study is a try to explore effects of buyer impulsivity and in-store environment factors on impulse buying in chain stores. path analyses technique was used for analyzing the model and structural equation model and t-value test for evaluating hypothesis. statistical society of this study is consumers of chain stores in tehran. by cochran method 384 people were selected as a sample.450 quest...

Recently, there has been increased attention on finding solutions for double-sided markets with strategic buying and selling agents. We present and evaluate the first dynamic double-sided combinatorial market, named DYCOM, that allows truthful and individually-rational behavior for both buying and selling agents, keeps the market budget balanced and approximates social welfare efficiency. We ex...

This paper deals with the construction of a discrete mathematical model for addictive buying. Firstly, identifications of consumers buying behavior are performed by using multivariate statistical techniques based on real data bases and sociological approaches. Then population is divided into appropriate groups according to the level of overbuying and a discrete compartmental model is constructe...

impulse buying behavior has a determinable role in developing the power of computability in the current consumer markets. hence, recognizing and improving the facilitating factors of impulse behavior is a necessity for increasing the profitability of such businesses. this research examines the effects of individual, environmental and fashion involvement factors by considering the mediator effec...

BACKGROUND A novel avian-origin influenza A(H7N9) caused a major outbreak in Mainland China in early 2013. Exposure to live poultry was believed to be the major route of infection. There are limited data on how the general public changes their practices regarding live poultry exposure in response to the early outbreak of this novel influenza and the frequency of population exposure to live poul...

The novel COVID-19 has halted almost every sector across the globe, Yet, outbreak of pandemic appeared different for E-Commerce in terms persistence online activities. Unlike offline shopping, usage various web-based platforms have remained unchanged due to rising demand shopping and a shift consumers buying behavior amid COVID-19. impetus conducting this research was investigate impact on cons...

This paper introduces an alternative to the lobbying literature’s standard assumption that “money buys policies”. Our model – in which influence-seeking requires both money to “buy access” and managerial time to “utilize access” — offers three significant benefits. First, it counters criticism that the “money-buys-policies” assumption is at odds with reality. Second, its much stronger lobbying ...

Negotiation events in industrial procurement involving multiple, highly customisable goods pose serious challenges to buying agents when trying to determine the best set of providing agents’ offers. Typically, a buying agent’s decision involves a large variety of constraints that may involve attributes of a very same item as well as attributes of multiple items. In this paper we describe iBundl...