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Normative Analysis with Societal Constraints

Boadway, Robin; Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - CESifo - 2013

This paper examines the question of achieving a societal consensus around redistributive policies. Its extent is measured by the degree of work participation among the different skill classes that populate the economy. This consensus is driven both by the material incentives and heterogeneous...

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What’s the Monetary Value of Distributive Justice?

Corneo, Giacomo; Fong, Christina M. - CESifo - 2006

This paper proposes a model that can be implemented to estimate the willingness to pay for distributive justice. A formula is derived that allows one to recover the willingness to pay for distributive justice from the estimated coefficients of a probit regression and fiscal data. Using this...

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Responsibility and Redistribution: The Case of First Best Taxation

Tungodden, Bertil - CESifo - 2001

It is not straightforward to define the ethics of responsibility in cases where the consequences of changes in factors … this interpretation of the ethics of responsibility and the ethics of compensation within a broad class of economic … environments. However, on a general basis, even this weaker version of the ethics of responsibility is not compatible with the …

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Let the Market Decide: An Experimental Study of Competition and Fairness

Bartling, Björn; Grieder, Manuel; Zehnder, Christian - CESifo - 2014

Is competition perceived as a fair procedure? We report data from laboratory experiments where a powerful buyer can trade with one of several sellers. Sellers who feel shortchanged can engage in counterproductive behavior to punish the buyer. We find that the same unfavorable terms of trade...

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Globalization and Social Justice in OECD Countries

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2015

Social justice is a topic of importance to social scientists and also political decision makers. We examine the relationship between globalization and social justice as measured by a new indicator for 31 OECD countries. The results show that countries that experienced rapid globalization enjoy...

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The Optimal Babel - An Economic Framework for the Analysis of Dynamic Language Rights

Wickström, Bengt-Arne - CESifo - 2010

We analyze various normatively determined distributions of language rights in multilingual settings. A general model for the analysis of language rights over time in a model with overlapping generations is set up. This model is then first used to find efficient allocations of rights in the...

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