scholarly journals Opening the Black Box of Intrahousehold Decision Making: Theory and Nonparametric Empirical Tests of General Collective Consumption Models

2009 ◽  
Vol 117 (6) ◽  
pp. 1074-1104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurens Cherchye ◽  
Bram De Rock ◽  
Frederic Vermeulen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Empirical Tests ◽  
Intrahousehold Decision Making

Islands of Stability: Engaging Emergence from Cellular Automata to the Occupy Movement

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Pickering
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cellular Automata ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Collective Decision ◽  
Collective Decision Making ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

"Instead of considering »being with« in terms of non-problematic, machine-like places, where reliable entities assemble in stable relationships, STS conjures up a world where the achievement of chancy stabilisations and synchronisations is local.We have to analyse how and where a certain regularity and predictability in the intersection of scientists and their instruments, say, or of human individuals and groups, is produced.The paper reviews models of emergence drawn from the history of cybernetics—the canonical »black box,« homeostats, and cellular automata—to enrich our imagination of the stabilisation process, and discusses the concept of »variety« as a way of clarifying its difficulty, with the antiuniversities of the 1960s and the Occupy movement as examples. Failures of »being with« are expectable. In conclusion, the paper reviews approaches to collective decision-making that reduce variety without imposing a neoliberal hierarchy. "

scholarly journals Intrahousehold Decision Making and Fertility

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Doepke ◽  
Fabian Kindermann
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Utility Function ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Important Determinant ◽  
Household Formation ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Considerable Heterogeneity ◽  
Unitary Model ◽  
Fertility Choices ◽  
Intrahousehold Decision Making

This chapter analyzes the implications of modeling fertility choices as outcomes of intrahousehold conflict and bargaining. It argues for a reformulation of fertility theories that are embedded in more realistic theories of household formation and joint decision making within the household. Empirical evidence suggests that disagreement regarding fertility choices is commonplace. In addition to a level difference in the desired fertility of women and men, there is evidence of considerable heterogeneity across households. The data on fertility preferences suggests at least the possibility that within-household disagreement on fertility is an important determinant of fertility outcomes. The chapter also shows how the vast majority of economic models of fertility have been based on a unitary model of the household, where the household is conceived as a single entity with a single utility function.

scholarly journals Opening the Black Box of CSR Decision Making: A Policy-Capturing Study of Charitable Donation Decisions in China

2014 ◽  
Vol 128 (3) ◽  
pp. 665-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuo Wang ◽  
Yuhui Gao ◽  
Gerard P. Hodgkinson ◽  
Denise M. Rousseau ◽  
Patrick C. Flood
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Policy Capturing ◽  
Charitable Donation

From Monetary to Nonmonetary Mechanism Design via Artificial Currencies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artur Gorokh ◽  
Siddhartha Banerjee ◽  
Krishnamurthy Iyer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Mechanism Design ◽  
Real World ◽  
Price Of Anarchy ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Two Agents ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Artificial Currency

Nonmonetary mechanisms for repeated allocation and decision making are gaining widespread use in many real-world settings. Our aim in this work is to study the performance and incentive properties of simple mechanisms based on artificial currencies in such settings. To this end, we make the following contributions: For a general allocation setting, we provide two black-box approaches to convert any one-shot monetary mechanism to a dynamic nonmonetary mechanism using an artificial currency that simultaneously guarantees vanishing gains from nontruthful reporting over time and vanishing losses in performance. The two mechanisms trade off between their applicability and their computational and informational requirements. Furthermore, for settings with two agents, we show that a particular artificial currency mechanism also results in a vanishing price of anarchy.

Measuring Performance of Dynamic and Network Structures by SBM Model

2015 ◽  
pp. 527-558
Author(s):  
N. Aghayi ◽  
Z. Ghelej Beigi ◽  
K. Gholami ◽  
F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Dynamic Network ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Network Efficiency ◽  
Sbm Model ◽  
Radial Model ◽  
Decision Making Units

The conventional Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model considers Decision Making Units (DMUs) as a black box, meaning that these models do not consider the connection and the inner structures of DMUs. Moreover, these models consider that the activities of DMUs in each time are independent of other times, but in the real world, the inner structures of DMUs are complicated, and the activities of DMUs are dependent on other times. Therefore, in this chapter, the authors consider DMUs with network structure and the activity of each DMU in each time dependent to activity of other times, so they call this structure a dynamic network. To this end, in this chapter, models are suggested to evaluate the dynamic network efficiency based on the SBM model, which is a non-radial model of three types with respect to orientation: input-oriented, output-oriented, and non-oriented.

MOU Convergence

2019 ◽  
pp. 197-219 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Black Box ◽  
The Political ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Monitoring Committee ◽  
Actor Networks ◽  
Discourse Practice ◽  
Political Divide

The Monitoring Committee (MC), consisting of both government and union officials institutionalized dialogue as a practice in the governance of the implementation of the MOU. The MC demonstrated value by becoming a responsive mechanism and sounding board for preventative, dispute resolution, and for engaging in joint decision making. The unions rejuvenated their own discourse practice and acquired new avenues of influence in relation to public administration policy decisions. While the private sector occupied a position of self-exclusion, leadership engendered collaborative governance obfuscating the political divide, enabling the Monitoring Committee to consolidate the accord. The inclusion of discourse as a moment in actor networks is advocated as a means to reveal the inner operations and network interactions within the “black box,” rendering the impenetrable, penetrable.

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