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math.PR2025
Simultaneous elections in a polarized society make single-party sweeps more likely
Pradeep Dubey, Siddhartha Sahi
In a country with many elections, it may prove economically expedient to hold multiple elections simultaneously on a common polling date. We show that in a polarized society, in wh…
math.PR2024
Putting all eggs in one basket: some insights from a correlation inequality
Pradeep Dubey, Siddhartha Sahi, Guanyang Wang
We give examples of situations -- stochastic production, military tactics, corporate merger -- where it is beneficial to concentrate risk rather than to diversify it, that is, to p…