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Is inequality harmful for the environment in a growing economy ?

Kempf, Hubert; Rossignol, Stéphane - HAL - 2006

In this paper we investigate the relationship between inequality and the environment in a growing economy from a … and show that inequality is harmful for the environment : the poorer the median voter relative to the average individual …

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The three worlds of welfare capitalism revisited

Brockhoff, Sarah; Rossignol, Stéphane; Taugourdeau, … - HAL - 2012

distribution of risks inside society, the Liberal system wins if the inequality of income is low, and the Beveridgean system wins … if the inequality of income is high. Using a utilitarian criterion, the Beveridgean system always dominates and the …

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On policy interactions among nations : when do cooperation and commitment matter ?

Kempf, Hubert; Thadden, Leopold Von - HAL - 2008

This paper offers a framework to study commitment and cooperation issues in games with multiple policymakers. To reconcile some puzzles in the recent literature on the nature of policy interactions among nations, we prove that games characterized by different commitment and cooperation schemes...

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Asymptotic and bootstrap inference for inequality and poverty measures

Davidson, Russell; Flachaire, Emmanuel - HAL - 2007

bootstrapping a commonly used index of inequality leads to inference that is not accurate even in very large samples, although … inference with poverty indices is satisfactory. We find that the major cause is the extreme sensitivity of many inequality …

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Inference on Income Distributions

Davidson, Russell - HAL - 2010

distributions. Two main approaches can be distinguished: one in which the object of interest is some index of income inequality or …

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