Matthew D Rablen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5735231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew D Rablen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew D |
| FAMILY NAME | Rablen |
| SIGNATURE | RABLEN M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3521-096X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Self‐reporting and Market Structure
Many regulators utilize self‐reporting, that is, wrongdoers reporting their own crimes to the authority, to enforce regulations in a variety of market contexts. This paper studies the effectiveness of self‐reporting within the context of an oligopoly. We identify two important consequences of implementing self‐reporting (relative to no‐reporting) for a welfare‐maximizing regulator. First, if the regulator can control only the audit probability an…
Reform of the United Nations Security Council
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is critical to global peace and security, yet more than 20 years of negotiations over its reform have proved fruitless. We use recent advances in the theory of a priori voting power to present a formal quantitative appraisal of the implications for democratic equity and efficiency of the “structural reforms” contained within 11 current reform proposals, as well as the separate effect of expansion of the …
Equitable representation in councils
We analyze democratic equity in council voting games (CVGs). In a CVG, a \nvoting body containing all members delegates decision-making to a (time-varying) subset \nof its members, as describes, e.g., the relationship between the United Nations General \nAssembly and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). We develop a theoretical \nframework for analyzing democratic equitability in CVGs at both the country and region \nlevels, and for differ…
Social networks and occupational choice
The paper analyses the emergence of group-specific attitudes and beliefs about tax compliance when individuals interact in a social network. It develops a model in which taxpayers possess a range of individual characteristics – including attitude to risk, potential for success in self-employment, and the weight attached to the social custom for honesty – and make an occupational choice based on these characteristics. Occupations differ in the pos…
The determinants of election to the United Nations Security Council
Performance targets, effort and risk-taking
Relativity, Rank and The Utility of Income
Relative utility has become an important concept in several disjoint areas of economics. I present a cardinal model of income utility based on the supposition that agents care about their rank in the income distribution and that utility is subject to adaptation over time. Utility levels correspond to the Leyden Individual Welfare Function while utility differences yield a version of the prospect theory value function, thereby providing a new and …
The determinants of election to the United Nations Security Council
Social networks and occupational choice
The paper analyses the emergence of group-specific attitudes and beliefs about tax compliance when individuals interact in a social network. It develops a model in which taxpayers possess a range of individual characteristics – including attitude to risk, potential for success in self-employment, and the weight attached to the social custom for honesty – and make an occupational choice based on these characteristics. Occupations differ in the pos…
Equitable representation in councils
We analyze democratic equity in council voting games (CVGs). In a CVG, a \nvoting body containing all members delegates decision-making to a (time-varying) subset \nof its members, as describes, e.g., the relationship between the United Nations General \nAssembly and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). We develop a theoretical \nframework for analyzing democratic equitability in CVGs at both the country and region \nlevels, and for differ…
Relativity, Rank and The Utility of Income
Relative utility has become an important concept in several disjoint areas of economics. I present a cardinal model of income utility based on the supposition that agents care about their rank in the income distribution and that utility is subject to adaptation over time. Utility levels correspond to the Leyden Individual Welfare Function while utility differences yield a version of the prospect theory value function, thereby providing a new and …
Reform of the United Nations Security Council
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is critical to global peace and security, yet more than 20 years of negotiations over its reform have proved fruitless. We use recent advances in the theory of a priori voting power to present a formal quantitative appraisal of the implications for democratic equity and efficiency of the “structural reforms” contained within 11 current reform proposals, as well as the separate effect of expansion of the …
Relativity, Rank and The Utility of Income
Relative utility has become an important concept in several disjoint areas of economics. I present a cardinal model of income utility based on the supposition that agents care about their rank in the income distribution and that utility is subject to adaptation over time. Utility levels correspond to the Leyden Individual Welfare Function while utility differences yield a version of the prospect theory value function, thereby providing a new and …
Performance targets, effort and risk-taking
Social networks and occupational choice
The paper analyses the emergence of group-specific attitudes and beliefs about tax compliance when individuals interact in a social network. It develops a model in which taxpayers possess a range of individual characteristics – including attitude to risk, potential for success in self-employment, and the weight attached to the social custom for honesty – and make an occupational choice based on these characteristics. Occupations differ in the pos…
The determinants of election to the United Nations Security Council
Equitable representation in councils
We analyze democratic equity in council voting games (CVGs). In a CVG, a \nvoting body containing all members delegates decision-making to a (time-varying) subset \nof its members, as describes, e.g., the relationship between the United Nations General \nAssembly and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). We develop a theoretical \nframework for analyzing democratic equitability in CVGs at both the country and region \nlevels, and for differ…
Reform of the United Nations Security Council
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is critical to global peace and security, yet more than 20 years of negotiations over its reform have proved fruitless. We use recent advances in the theory of a priori voting power to present a formal quantitative appraisal of the implications for democratic equity and efficiency of the “structural reforms” contained within 11 current reform proposals, as well as the separate effect of expansion of the …
Self‐reporting and Market Structure
Many regulators utilize self‐reporting, that is, wrongdoers reporting their own crimes to the authority, to enforce regulations in a variety of market contexts. This paper studies the effectiveness of self‐reporting within the context of an oligopoly. We identify two important consequences of implementing self‐reporting (relative to no‐reporting) for a welfare‐maximizing regulator. First, if the regulator can control only the audit probability an…
Economics (6 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Security council (3 works) · Accounting (2 works) · Audit (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (2 works)