Michael C. Munger

Conference Proceedings of the American Control Conference · January 1, 2024 Preferences, fundamental in all forms of strategic behavior and collective decision-making, in their raw form, are an abstract ordering on a set of alternatives. Agents, we assume, revise their preferences as they gain more information about other agents. ... Full text Cite

Max-Plus Synchronization in Decentralized Trading Systems

Conference Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control · January 1, 2023 We introduce a decentralized mechanism for pricing and exchanging alternatives constrained by transaction costs. We characterize the time-invariant solutions of a heat equation involving a (weighted) Tarski Laplacian operator, defined for max-plus matrix-w ... Full text Cite

Investigating the incidence of killer amendments in congress

Conference Journal of Politics · January 1, 2003 While much empirical research has been devoted to the study of "killer amendments" in recent years, few studies have explicitly examined the theoretical foundations of the phenomenon. The goal of this paper is to investigate why some killer amendment attem ... Full text Cite