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Re-Evaluating the Role of Energy Efficiency Standards: A Time-Consistent Behavioral Economics Approach

Tsvetanov, Tsvetan G.; Segerson, Kathleen - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2011

-consistent behavioral model. We adapt the model of temptation and self-control of Gul and Pesendorfer (2001, 2004) to the context of the … purchase of energy-using durable goods. Our results suggest that (i) temptation or self-control might be a contributing factor … consumer choice that stem from temptation, and (iii) in the presence of temptation, a policy that combines standards with a …

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Tiebout Choice and the Voucher

Brunner, Eric J.; Imazeki, Jennifer - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2006

This paper examines who is likely to gain and who is likely to lose under a universal voucher program. Following Epple and Romano (1998, 2003), and Nechyba (2000, 2003a), we focus on the idea that gains and losses under a universal voucher depend on two effects: changes in peer group composition...

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How Decisive Is the Decisive Voter?

Brunner, Eric J.; Ross, Stephen - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2007

deciding how to vote on voting rules …

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Economics and Ideology: Causal Evidence of the Impact of Economic Conditions on Support for Redistribution and Other Ballot Proposals

Brunner, Eric J.; Ross, Stephen; Washington, Ebonya - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2008

. We ask how exogenous shifts to the value of residents. human capital affect voting behavior in California neighborhoods … notably, we find that conservative voting on a wide variety of ballot propositions--from crime to gambling to campaign finance …

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Characterizing Paretian Preferences

Knoblauch, Vicki - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2003

A characterization of a property of binary relations is of type M if it can be stated in terms of ordered M-tuples of alternatives. A characterization of finite type provides an easy test of whether preferences over a large set of alternatives possesses the property characterized. Unfortunately,...

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On Voters' Attitudes Towards Unemployment Insurance Subsidies across Regions: A Canadian Simulation

Pallage, Stephane; Zimmermann, Christian - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2004

The Canadian unemployment insurance program is designed to reflect the varying risk of joblessness across regions. Regions that are considered low-risk areas subsidize higher risk ones. A region's risk is typically proxied by its relative unemployment rate. We use a dynamic, heterogeneous-agent...

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A Model of Rights

Shunda, Nicholas - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2005

In this paper, we develop a simple model of the rights a government provides its citizenry. Rights are treated as public goods and taken as primitives in agents utility functions; each agent has preferences over the entire policy vector. We model the interaction among citi-zens and the...

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Is the Median Voter Decisive? Evidence of 'Ends Against the Middle' From Referenda Voting Patterns

Brunner, Eric J.; Ross, Stephen - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2009

when deciding how to vote on voting rules, but the empirical evidence strongly suggests that an income percentile below the … median is decisive for majority voting rules. This finding is consistent with high income voters with weak demand for public … educational services voting with the poor against increases in public spending on education. …

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Finite Characterizations and Paretian Preferences

Knoblauch, Vicki - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2005

A characterization of a property of binary relations is of finite type if it is stated in terms of ordered T-tuples of alternatives for some positive integer T. A characterization of finite type can be used to determine in polynomial time whether a binary relation over a finite set has the...

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