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We develop democratic mechanisms where individual utilities are not observable by other people at the legislative stage. We show that an appropriate combination of three rules can yield efficient provision of public projects: first, flexible and double majority rules where the size of the...
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In this Paper, we design democratic constitutions that can transcend the shortcomings of the unanimity rule. The constitution embeds the unanimity rule in a set of virtue-supporting principles: (a) broad packages with many public projects (bundling) are allowed, but can only be proposed once in...
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between the sexes, including an unbalanced sex ratio, investments are generically excessively relative to Pareto-efficiency …
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-dependent externalities to the non-consumers. Resale markets for such goods are analysed in various institutional settings with complete … independence and efficiency properties are logically unrelated. …
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I consider a model where a principal decides whether to produce one unit of an indivisible good (e.g. a private school) and which characteristics it will contain (emphasis on language or science). Agents (parents) are differentiated along two substitutable dimensions: a vertical parameter that...
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-constrained monetary economy with heterogenous agents and increasing returns to scale due to labour and capital productive externalities … (arbitrarily) small degree of (total) externalities provided that the share of labour externalities exceed a lower bound, which …
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optimal tax could exceed marginal external damages, which implies that externalities generated by oligopolistic firms could be …
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-fulfilling expectations. We consider an overlapping generations economy with capital externalities and we focus on underemployment equilibria …. We find that for wide regions in the parameter space, including an arbitrarily small degree of externalities and a Cobb … that the role of unions in shaping local dynamics depends on technology (externalities and factor's substitutability …
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In many cultures and industries gifts are given in order to influence the recipient, often at the expense of a third party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without incentive or in-formational effects, small gifts strongly...
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-enhancing from the point of view of aggregate world welfare because it helps alleviate externalities arising from cross …
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