The acquisition and dispersion of information, a critical aspect of economic decisions, can occur through a network of agents (Jackson, 2009). Empirical and theoretical findings suggest that an efficient information dispersion network takes the form of a star: small numbers of agents gather information and distribute it to a large group. Despite these findings, controlled tests of this theory f...

We investigate the incentive and project screening effects of anonymity in the peerreview process. If the process is “blind”, then the applicant’s (payoff relevant) type is hidden from the reviewer. If the process is nonblind or “informed”, then the reviewer observes the applicant’s type directly. In either case, the evaluator receives a noisy signal on the quality of the agent’s project and de...

Egalitarianism and meritocracy are competing principles to distribute the joint bene…ts of cooperation. We examine the consequences of letting members of society vote between those two principles, in a context where groups of a certain size must be formed in order for individuals to become productive. Our setup induces a hedonic game of coalition formation. We study the existence of core stable...

This paper applies a novel methodology to measure corruption levels in U.S. states, leading to insights which could be useful to policymakers in their effort to reduce unethical behavior. The level of public corruption is difficult to quantify because much of it goes undetected and because different cultures and jurisdictions have different definitions and different degrees of tolerance for cor...

ABSTRACT The Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS) is an ongoing high-completeness, deep spectroscopic survey of ∼60 000 galaxies to Y < 21.2 mag, over ∼6 deg2 in three well-studied extragalactic fields: D10 (COSMOS), D02 (XMMLSS), and D03 (ECDFS). Numerous DEVILS projects all require consistent, uniformly derived state-of-the-art photometric data with which measure galaxy pr...

The expansion of the research on nanoscale particles demonstrates several advantages in terms stability and an increased surface area to volume ratio compared micron-sized particles. Based this, present work explores addition aluminum hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), alternative jet fuel. To evaluate influence particle sizes, nano micron (40 nm 5 ?m) a concentration 0.5 wt.% were stably suspen...

Abstract. This paper presents a three-dimensional variational (3DVAR) data assimilation (DA) system for aerosol optical properties, including thickness (AOT) retrievals and lidar-based profiles, developed the Model Simulating Aerosol Interactions Chemistry (MOSAIC) within Weather Research Forecasting model coupled to (WRF-Chem) model. For computational efficiency, 32 variables in MOSAIC_4bin sc...