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Optimal Utilitarian Taxation and Horizontal Equity

Jordahl, Henrik; Micheletto, Luca - CESifo - 2003

We impose a horizontal equity restriction on the problem of finding the optimal utilitarian tax mix. The horizontal equity constraint requires that individuals with the same ability have to pay the same amount of taxes regardless of their preferences for leisure. Contrary to normal findings, we...

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The Malleability of Undiscounted Utilitarianism as a Criterion of Intergenerational Justice

Asheim, Geir B.; Buchholz, Wolfgang - CESifo - 2000

Undiscounted utilitarianism as a criterion of intergeneration justice has been questioned for different reasons: It has … allocation must involve discounting, and (2) that undiscounted utilitarianism subjects the present generation to heavy demands …-nologies) that undiscounted utilitarianism is so malleable that any efficient and non-decreasing allocation can be the unique optimum …

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Labor Policies and Capital Mobility in Theory and in EMU

Bertola, Giuseppe - CESifo - 2014

“Race-to-the-bottom” deregulation is to be expected when markets operate across the borders of countries that independently choose and enforce labor policies. Less obviously, in pre-crisis EMU reforms of labor market policies were uneven and related to international imbalances. That pattern...

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Households, Markets and Public Choice

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - CESifo - 2014

We develop a model that combines competitive exchange of private commodities across endogenously formed groups with public good provision and global collective decisions. There is a tension between local and global collective decisions. In particular, we show that group formation and collective...

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Did the Japanese Patient Follow the Doctor's Orders? Mostly no! A Public Choice Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Schemes in Japan before and after the Earthquake

Rudolph, Sven; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2011

The Great Tôhoku-Earthquake and the following nuclear meltdown in Fukushima called the world’s attention to Japans’ energy and climate policy. Japan is one of the biggest emitters of greenhouses gases in the world and still far away from reaching its Kyoto target. Emissions trading systems...

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Privatization in Austria: Some Theoretical Reasons and First Results About the Privatization Proceeds

Belke, Ansgar; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2004

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The Political Economy of Conscription

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2009

Though in decline recently, military conscription is still a widely used mode of staffing armies. Since not many valid economic, social or military arguments in favor of the draft can be put forward, the question emerges why societies choose to rely on it. In this survey we explain the political...

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Tullock Challenges: Happiness, Revolutions and Democracy

Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2011

Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical “Tullock Challenges”. The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...

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