Actual voting power of the IMF members based on their political-economic integration

Mathematical and Computer Modelling

Volumn 48, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 1554-1569

  Aleskerov, Fuad ^a   Kalyagin, Valeriy ^a   Pogorelskiy, Kirill ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Agents' preferences; International Monetary Fund; Power indices; Voting power

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; VOTING MACHINES;

AGENTS' PREFERENCES; COLEMAN; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; EXECUTIVE BOARDS; INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND; MAJORITY VOTING; MAXIMUM POWER; NETHERLANDS; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; POWER INDICES; SIMPLE MAJORITY; SMALL VARIATIONS; TOTAL POWER; VOTING POWER; WEIGHT COEFFICIENTS;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 52949087161     PISSN: 08957177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcm.2008.05.020     Document Type: Article

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