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Whereas studies on the optimal taxation under endogenous longevity assume a fixed heterogeneity of lifestyles, this paper considers the optimal tax policy in an economy where unequal longevities are the unintended outcome of differences in lifestyles, and where lifestyles are transmitted across...
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mortality patterns. To examine that issue, this paper develops an overlapping generations model where a healthy lifestyle and an … unhealthy lifestyle are transmitted vertically or obliquely across generations. It is shown that there must exist a locally …
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behaviour change towards a lower individual carbon footprint are part of the response. However, barriers are numerous for … individuals to change their behaviour and actually reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Even individuals with positive attitudes …
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Based on Hume's major philosophical works and on some of his Essays, this paper discusses formally the feasibility, from a Humean point of view, of a welfare policy which would aim at promoting the highest individual happiness whereas individual decisions, like individual happiness, are...
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inclination to choose one of the actions. Due to influence among players, the final decision of a player, i.e., his choice of one … influence another player with different inclination, and as a result of this influence, the decision of the player is closer to …
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each agent is inclined to make a particular decision, but due to a possible influence of the others, his final decision may …
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We develop an axiomatic approach to decision under uncertainty that explicitly takes into account the information … available to the decision maker. The information is described by a set of priors and a reference prior. We define a notion of … imprecision for this informational setting and show that a decision maker who is averse to information imprecision maximizes the …
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We review recent advances in the field of decision making under uncertainty or ambiguity. …
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This paper provides a general framework for a unifying treatment of stochastic dominance of any degree and of any type (direct or inverse for each final or intermediary level). It gives the conditions for the congruence between stochastic dominance and classes of utility functions in this...
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Facing R. Sugden's criticism of our interpretation, it is shown in this paper that rationality appears as a possible consequence of Hume's theory of choice. We first argue that Sugden's dismissal of the preference relation from the type of rationality through which Hume's theory is apprehended,...
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