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Shmuel Nitzan

Shmuel Nitzan

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
36
Citations
6906
World Ranking
2781
National Ranking
19

Overview

Shmuel Nitzan is affiliated with Bar-Ilan University in Israel and conducts research primarily at the intersection of economics, social sciences, and decision sciences. Their work broadly addresses topics within game theory, voting systems, auction theory, and behavioral economics, with additional focus on electoral systems, law, and judicial studies.

Their recent publications include:

  • Envy-Free Division of Land (2020, Mathematics of Operations Research)
  • One person, one weight: when is weighted voting democratic? (2022, Social Choice and Welfare)
  • Skill, power and marginal contribution in committees (2021, Journal of Theoretical Politics)
  • Sovereign debt assistance and democratic decision-making (2023, Journal of Public Economic Theory)
  • Optimal favoritism and maximal revenue: A generalized result (2021, European Journal of Political Economy)

Nitzan frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Social Choice and Welfare
  • Theory and Decision
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Mathematics of Operations Research
  • Journal of Public Economic Theory

Their most frequent co-authors include Chen Cohen, Roy Darioshi, Erel Segal-Halevi, Roy Baharad, and Ruth Ben-Yashar. This collaboration network reflects ongoing engagements within the fields of economics and political decision-making.

Their main fields of study center around:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Social Sciences
  • Decision Sciences

Subfields of particular focus are:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Safety Research
  • Law

The central themes in their research work cover:

  • Game Theory and Voting Systems
  • Auction Theory and Applications
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • Sports Analytics and Performance

This range of topics indicates a multidisciplinary approach that combines theoretical modeling, behavioral analysis, and institutional design. Their work addresses the mechanisms of decision-making in committees, voting structures, and economic incentives as they apply to both political and economic environments.

Best Publications

  • Modelling rent-seeking contests

    Shmuel Nitzan

  • Collective Rent Dissipation

    Shmuel Nitzan

  • Optimum Contracts for Research Personnel, Research Employment, and the Establishment of "Rival" Enterprises

    Ariel Pakes;Shmuel Nitzan

  • Optimal Decision Rules in Uncertain Dichotomous Choice Situations

    Shmuel Nitzan;Jacob Paroush

  • Rent-seeking for pure public goods*

    Eliakim Katz;Shmuel Nitzan;Jacob Rosenberg

  • Electoral outcomes with probabilistic voting and Nash social welfare maxima

    Peter Coughlin;Shmuel Nitzan

  • Dynamic voluntary provision of public goods

    Chaim Fershtman;Chaim Fershtman;Shmuel Nitzan

  • Collective Decision Making: An Economic Outlook

    Shmuel Nitzan;Jacob Paroush

  • The Optimal Decision Rule for Fixed-Size Committees in Dichotomous Choice Situations--The General Result

    Ruth C. Ben-Yashar;Shmuel I. Nitzan

  • The vulnerability of point-voting schemes to preference variation and strategic manipulation

    Shmuel Nitzan

  • A further characterization of Borda ranking method

    Shmuel Nitzan;Ariel Rubinstein

  • Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests

    Gil S. Epstein;Gil S. Epstein;Gil S. Epstein;Yosef Mealem;Shmuel Nitzan;Shmuel Nitzan

  • Directional and local electoral equilibria with probabilistic voting

    Peter Coughlin;Shmuel Nitzan

  • Rent-seeking with non-identical sharing rules

    Shmuel Nitzan

  • Private provision of a discrete public good with uncertain cost

    Shmuel Nitzan;Richard E. Romano

  • Political culture and discrimination in contests

    Gil S. Epstein;Yosef Mealem;Shmuel Nitzan

  • Strategic restraint in contests

    Gil S Epstein;Gil S Epstein;Shmuel Nitzan

  • Endogenous Public Policy and Contests

    Gil S Epstein;Shmuel Nitzan

  • Some measures of closeness to unanimity and their implications

    Shmuel Nitzan

  • Contest Efforts in Light of Behavioural Considerations

    Eyal Baharad;Shmuel Nitzan

  • Median-based extensions of an ordering over a set to the power set: An axiomatic characterization

    Shmuel I Nitzan;Prasanta K Pattanaik

  • Optimum Contracts for Research Personnel, Research Employment, and the Establishment of

    Ariel Pakes;Ariel Pakes;Shmuel Nitzan;Shmuel Nitzan

Frequent Co-Authors

Gil S. Epstein
Gil S. Epstein Bar-Ilan University
Mark Gradstein
Mark Gradstein Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Avinatan Hassidim
Avinatan Hassidim Bar-Ilan University
Jacob Goldberger
Jacob Goldberger Bar-Ilan University
Chaim Fershtman
Chaim Fershtman Tel Aviv University
Moshe Koppel
Moshe Koppel Bar-Ilan University
Werner Güth
Werner Güth Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Ariel Pakes
Ariel Pakes Harvard University
Ariel Rubinstein
Ariel Rubinstein Tel Aviv University
Prasanta K. Pattanaik
Prasanta K. Pattanaik University of California, Riverside

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