4 papers
Pareto Efficient Insurance with Multiple Policyholders, Multiple Insurers, and Multiple Indemnity Environments
Zijun Meng
This paper proves a sum-minimization characterization of Pareto efficient insurance with multiple policyholders, multiple insurers, and multiple indemnity environments. We also pro…
Cramming and Credibility: Strategic Test Announcements in the Classroom
Zijun Meng
This paper studies a cheap-talk model of strategic test announcements. A teacher observes the day of the test of the next week decided by the nature and makes an announcement to hi…
Continuous Classification Aggregation
Zijun Meng
We prove that any optimal, independent, and zero unanimous fuzzy classification aggregation function of a continuum of individual classifications of objects into $2\le p\l…
Combinatorial Courant-Fischer-Weyl Minimax Principle on Cheeger -constants of Weighted Forests
Zijun Meng, Dong Zhang
We establish novel max-min and minimax characterizations of Cheeger -constants in weighted forests, thereby providing the first combinatorial analogue of the Courant-Fischer-Wey…