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Repeated interaction and its impact on cooperation and surplus allocation—an experimental analysis Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This paper investigates how the possibility of affecting group composition combined with the possibility of repeated interaction impacts cooperation within groups and surplus distribution. We developed and tested experimentally a Surplus Allocation Game where cooperation of four agents is needed to produce surplus, but only two have the power to allocate it among the group members. Three matching procedures (corresponding to three separate ...
The rise of cooperative surplus taxation Universiteit Antwerpen
The world’s tax policy leaders are currently engaged in debate over who should tax the income streams produced with the help of cross-border regulatory coordination—the cooperative surplus over the gains that, in a counterfactual world, would be available if investments were confined to the domestic economy. To the extent there ever was a coherent relationship between consensus tax policy norms and the distribution of cooperative surplus, that ...
Responses to Joe Trapido, "Masterless Men" Riots, Patronage, and the Politics of the Surplus Population in Kinshasa. KU Leuven
On the basis of fieldwork in Kinshasa, this essay makes a link between riots, the recent anthropology of “surplus populations,” and distributive politics in low-income countries, especially Africa. Tracing the history of a political demonstration turned riot, it shows how distribution structures the interactions between rich and poor in the city. Situating the riot in a context in which subjects are dependent on the market for goods but are not ...
From Surplus Fairness to Prospect Fairness: Why a Deeply Egalitarian Social Union is Indispensable for a Free Europe KU Leuven
Which ideal of distributive justice is suitable for the European Union? Is surplus fairness, that is, distributing the surplus of European integration between Member States, the most we can hope for? I argue that building on the normative commitment to freedom of movement, a deeper, more demanding, egalitarian conception can be defended, I call prospect fairness. I first argue that for cross-border labour migration to result in a fair ...
Distribution Grid Tariff Design - Analysis of the Economic Efficiency of Tariff Structures and Forward-Looking Cost Models KU Leuven
One characteristic of the ongoing transition towards a sustainable energy system is the emergence of distributed energy resources (DERs), e.g., rooftop photovoltaics (PV) and home batteries. Residential consumers are no longer passive end-users with an inelastic demand but they can also generate and store electricity, and thereby actively participate in the electricity system. This paradigm shift introduces new challenges for the design of ...
An Engagement-related Behaviour Change Approach for SavingFood in Greece Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Food waste is a global problem that has moved up on the political agenda because of its negative social, environmental and economical impact. To prevent food waste, food banks and food rescue charities are collecting edible surplus food from food donors, and match it with welfare organisations to feed people in need. However, these food redistribution organisations face challenges in terms of efficiency, capacity and scale. This paper presents ...
The Great Rural Transformation: Land Reform and Rural livelihoods in China KU Leuven
The second half of the 21st century has witnessed China’s economic miracle and social transformation. Peasants, however, have experienced a complicated transformation process with both triumph and suffering. On one hand, the decentralisation of the previous plan system stimulated agricultural growth; on the other, the surplus extraction from agriculture first by the state industry from the 1950s to the 1970s, then by the urban expansion of ...
Reinsurance: Optimal Combinations of Reinsurance Protections and Benchmarking of Excess of Loss Rates KU Leuven
The research is focused on reinsurance. Most simply, reinsurance can be described as insurance of insurance portfolios written by insurers. In our research, two aspects which are of importance in the daily practice of reinsurance will be considered. The combination of two reinsurance methods will be considered, by which will be looked for, on the basis of the “main-variance” principle, how the two methods can be combined in an optimal way in ...
Utility of inclusions for interpreting reservoir thresholds for tight sandstone gas accumulation in the Longfengshan and Dongling sags, Southeast China KU Leuven
© 2018 To better understand the thresholds for hydrocarbon migration in tight sandstone, we studied the gas migration and accumulation processes in the Longfengshan and Dongling sags in the Songliao Basin by determining the ancient pore pressure evolution and gas fractionation. The trapping pressure of coeval aqueous inclusions can be used to identify systematic overpressure trends, which increase during gas charging. Early formation of ...