We investigate the voting rules in the Council of the European Union. It is known that both the current system, according to the Treaty of Nice, and the voting system proposed in the Lisbon treaty deviate strongly from the square root law by Penrose which is known to be the ideal voting rule under certain assumptions. In 2004 S lomczynski and Życzkowski designed a voting system, now known as th...

Variability in admissions and lengths of stay inherently leads to variability in bed occupancy. The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of these sources of variability on the required amount of capacity and to determine admission quota for scheduled admissions to regulate the occupancy pattern. For the impact of variability on the required number of beds, we use a heavy-traffic limit the...

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The paper studies a single-server queueing system with autonomous service and l priority classes. Arrival and departure processes are defined by marked point processes. There are l buffers corresponding to priority classes, and upon arrival a unit of the kth priority class occupies the place in the kth buffer. Let N , k = 1, 2, . . . , l denote the quota for the total kth buffer content. The va...

Government budget balance forces the endogenous use of distortionary tax instruments when an exogenous reform is implemented. The aggregate efficiency of such reforms is based on comparisons of simple summary measures of the Marginal Cost of Funds of the various tariff or quota changes with the Marginal Cost of Funds of the alternative taxes, or of the Marginal Benefit of Government supplied go...

We study many-to-many matching markets in which agents from a set A are matched to agents from a disjoint set B through a two-stage non-revelation mechanism. In the first stage, A-agents, who are endowed with a quota that describes the maximal number of agents they can be matched to, simultaneously make proposals to the B-agents. In the second stage, B-agents sequentially, and respecting the qu...