Welfare-maximizing pooled testing by Finster, S, Amador, MG, Lock, E, Cossio, FM, Micha, E, Procaccia, A

“…Under the assumption that samples can be pooled, the question of how to allocate a limited testing budget in the population to maximize the aggregate utility (i.e. welfare) of negatively-tested individuals who return to in-person activities is non-trivial, with a large space of potential testing allocations.…”

The Fisher Market Game: Equilibrium and Welfare. by Brânzei, S, Chen, Y, Deng, X, Filos-Ratsikas, A, Frederiksen, S, Zhang, J

Social Welfare Issues in Britain and Japan by Goodman, R, Smith, T

Social Welfare Issues in Britain and Japan by Goodman, R, Smith, T

Social Welfare in One-Sided Matching Mechanisms. by Christodoulou, G, Filos-Ratsikas, A, Frederiksen, S, Goldberg, P, Zhang, J, Zhang, J

“…We study the Price of Anarchy of mechanisms for the wellknown problem of one-sided matching, or house allocation, with respect to the social welfare objective. We consider both ordinal mechanisms, where agents submit preference lists over the items, and cardinal mechanisms, where agents may submit numerical values for the items being allocated. …”

A dual transformation of the German welfare state? by Seeleib-Kaiser, M

Social welfare in one-sided matching mechanisms by Christodoulou, G, Filos-Ratsikas, A, Frederiksen, S, Goldberg, P, Zhang, J, Zhang, J

“…We study the Price of Anarchy of mechanisms for the wellknown problem of one-sided matching, or house allocation, with respect to the social welfare objective. We consider both ordinal mechanisms, where agents submit preference lists over the items, and cardinal mechanisms, where agents may submit numerical values for the items being allocated. …”

Together at last: Trade costs, demand structure, and welfare by Mrázová, M, Neary, J

Social welfare in one-sided matchings: Random priority and beyond. by Filos-Ratsikas, A, Frederiksen, S, Zhang, J

“…We study the problem of approximate social welfare maximization (without money) in onesided matching problems when agents have unrestricted cardinal preferences over a finite set of items. …”

The Delivery of Personal Social Services and the "Japanese-Style Welfare State" by Goodman, R

Economic globalization and the welfare state in affluent democracies, 1975-2001 by Brady, D, Beckfield, J, Seeleib-Kaiser, M

Budget-feasible maximum nash social welfare is almost envy-free by Wu, X, Li, B, Gan, J

“…The Nash social welfare (NSW) is a well-known social welfare measurement that balances individual utilities and the overall efficiency. …”

The financial lives of families. How credit regimes and welfare states shape household indebtedness by Wiedemann, A

“…Yet we know little about the cross-national dimension of credit markets as a substitute for welfare states. I argue that the interaction of welfare states and credit regimes constrains the ways in which households cope with financial shortfalls, thereby producing and reproducing patterns of indebtedness. …”

Artificial intelligence and organizational memory in government: the experience of record duplication in the child welfare sector in Canada by Vogl, TM

Double standards in spring trap welfare: ending inequality for rats (Rodentia: Muridae), mice (Rodentia: Muridae) and moles (Insectivora: Talpidae) in the United Kingdom by Baker, S, Macdonald, D, Ellwood, S

“…Spring traps require welfare approval in the UK, but break-back traps, for rats and mice, and mole traps are exempt. …”

Approximately Efficient Two-Sided Combinatorial Auctions by Colini-Baldeschi, R, Goldberg, P, De Keijzer, B, Leonardi, S, Roughgarden, T, Turchetta, S

“…A mechanism is given prior distributions on the agents’ valuations of the items, but not the actual valuations; thus the aim is to maximise the expected social welfare over these distributions. As in previous work, we are interested in the worst-case ratio between the social welfare achieved by a truthful mechanism, and the best social welfare possible. …”

Optimal Fiscal Feedback on Debt in an Economy with Nominal Rigidities. by Kirsanova, T, Wren-Lewis, S

“…However this fiscal stabilisation is less efficient than monetary policy, and so welfare declines. In contrast, if fiscal feedback falls below some critical value, either the model becomes indeterminate, or optimal monetary policy becomes strongly passive, and this passive monetary policy leads to a sharp deterioration in welfare.…”

Simple pricing schemes for the cloud by Kash, I, Key, P, Suksompong, W

“…In this paper, we consider a stochastic model and show that it is possible to obtain good welfare and revenue guarantees with simple mechanisms that do not make use of the information on some of these parameters. …”

Price of pareto optimality in hedonic games by Elkind, E, Fanelli, A, Flammini, M

“…Price of Anarchy measures the welfare loss caused by selfish behavior: it is defined as the ratio of the social welfare in a socially optimal outcome and in a worst Nash equilibrium. …”

Online trading as a secretary problem by Koutsoupias, E, Lazos, P

“…We give competitive algorithms for two objectives: welfare and gain-from-trade.…”