[Econmaster2012] Fwd: Research Seminar in Economics

[Frank Stähler]

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Dear all,

the presenter in tomorrow's Research Seminar in Economics is Stefan
Napel, who is Professor of Economics at the University of Bayreuth
The title of his talk will be

"On the Democratic Weights of Nations"

An abstract is enclosed below.

The schedule for the seminar can be found here:

http://www.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de/forschung0/research-seminars/research-seminar-in-economics.html


A reminder of the new time slot: The seminar starts at 14.15h in Room E09.

I am looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.

We will be going to dinner in the evening. Anyone interested to join us,
please let me know.

Best wishes,
Udo Kreickemeier

Abstract:
Which voting weights ought to be allocated to single delegates of
differently sized groups
from a democratic fairness perspective? We operationalize the ‘one
person, one vote’ principle
by demanding every individual’s influence on collective decisions to be
equal a priori. The
analysis differs from previous ones by considering intervals of
alternatives. New reasons lead
to an old conclusion: weights should be proportional to the square root
of constituency sizes if
voter preferences are independent and identically distributed. This is
knife-edge, however, in
that preference polarization along constituency lines quickly calls for
a Shapley value-based
variation of simple proportionality.