Browsing by Author "Bugarin, Maurício Soares"

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    • Convexity in multidimensional mechanism design 

      Bugarin, Maurício Soares
      1999-03-18
      The present article initiates a systematic study of the behavior of a strictly increasing, C2 , utility function u(a), seen as a function of agents' types, a, when the set of types, A, is a compact, convex subset of iRm . ...

    • Electoral control in the presence of gridlocks 

      Bugarin, Maurício Soares
      2001-11-29
      This article presents a game-theoretic partisan model of voting and political bargaining. In a two-period setup, voters ¯rst elect an executive incumbent and the legislators from a pool of candidates belonging to di®erent ...

    • Political budget cycles in a fiscal federation : the effect of partisan voluntary transfers 

      Bugarin, Maurício Soares
      2006-04-27
      This article first presents an econometric study suggesting that intergovernmental transfers to Brazilian municipalities are strongly partisan motivated. In light of that stylized fact, it develops an extension to Rogoff ...