3 papers
econ.TH2025
Subjective inference
Andrew Mackenzie
An agent observes a clue, and an analyst observes an inference: a ranking of events on the basis of how corroborated they are by the clue. We prove that if the inference satisfies…
econ.TH2025
Dividing a cake for the irrationally entitled
Florian Brandl, Andrew Mackenzie
A perfectly divisible cake is to be divided among a group of agents. Each agent is entitled to a share between zero and one, and these entitlements are compatible in that they sum…
econ.TH2025
Patience ensures fairness
Florian Brandl, Andrew Mackenzie
We revisit the problem of fairly allocating a sequence of time slots when agents may have different levels of patience (Mackenzie and Komornik 2023). For each number of agents, we…