We study the integration of stable marriage problems (SMPs) of equal sizes into an extended society. We show that it is impossible to make every agent weakly better off by merging all SMPs if the matching that occurs before and after integration is stable. We show that integration always weakly benefits at least one-half of the society, which implies that it can be implemented by majority votin...

In short, it depends on the ownership type. We construct an event-based outcome measure of firm-level environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impact for public and private firms globally from 2007 to 2015 using data from RepRisk. Then, we measure the societal impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) engagements using participation in the United Nations Global Compact as a proxy. We d...

Cost-benefit analysis is a process for evaluating the merits of a particular project or course of action in a systematic and rigorous way. Social cost-benefit analysis refers to cases where the project has a broad impact across society – and, as such, is usually carried out by the government. While the cost and benefits may relate to goods and services that have a simple and transparent measure...

This paper examines the benefit of sequentiality in the social networks. We adopt the elegant theoretical framework proposed by Ballester et al. (2006) wherein a fixed set of players non-cooperatively determine their contributions. This setting features payoff externalities and strategic complementarity amongst players. We first analyze the two-stage game in which players in the leader group ma...

abstract in this research, the comparative advantage of cereals including: wheat, barley and corn in cities of kerman, bardsir and baft was investigated by using domestic resource cost (drc), social cost benefit (scb) and effective protection coefficient (epc) index during 2005-2006 and effect of exchange rate changes, price changes and products costs on comparative advantage, were investigated...