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Following a long-standing philosophical tradition, impartiality is a distinctive and determining feature of moral judgments, especially in matters of distributive justice. This broad ethical tradition was revived in welfare economics by Vickrey, and above all, Harsanyi, under the form of the...
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Several authors have indicated a contradiction between consistent aggregation of subjective beliefs and tastes, and a Pareto condition. We argue that the Pareto condition that implies the contradiction is not compelling. Society should not necessarily endorse a unanimous choice when it is based...
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discrimination ensures efficient output decisions given product characteristics, coordination failures may prevent efficiency in the …
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This paper develops a model of pricing and advertising in a matching environment with capacity constrained sellers. Sellers' expenditure on directly informative advertising attracts consumers only probabilistically. Consumers who happen to observe advertisements randomize over the advertised...
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Using a large firm level panel data set from four Asian countries, this paper compares the returns to various internal and external funds. A novel feature of our analysis is that we distinguish between financially constrained and unconstrained firms and determine selectivity-corrected estimates...
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The efficiency of speculative markets, as represented by Fama's 1970 fair game model, is tested on weekly price index … efficiency of nervous systems. In particular, the stationarity and independence of the price innovations are tested over ten … stock market efficiency is: Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Singapore's stock market pricing …
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Suppose an altruistic person, A, is willing to transfer resources to a second person, B, if B comes upon hard times. If B anticipates that A will act in this manner, B will save too little from both agents' point of view. This is the Samaritan's dilemma. The logic of the dilemma has been...
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, subsidies and efficiency the of animal farming. To this end we first have to identify the production frontier and relative … efficiency level for each animal oriented type of farm in the sample. The production frontier and efficiency index for each type … between relative efficiency, farm size and environmentally friendly behavior realizing a non parametric regression of …
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industry’s financial performance, efficiency and quality of service (though it does not attempt to benchmark private hospitals …
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