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Market power in the global economy: the exhaustion and protection of intellectual property
Saggi, Kamal - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2012
to protect IPR increases global welfare iff such protection is necessary for inducing the firm to export to the South. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603809
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Market power in the global economy: the exhaustion and protection of intellectual property
Saggi, Kamal - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2012
to protect IPR increases global welfare iff such protection is necessary for inducing the firm to export to the South. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010778736
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A Defense of the Current US Tax Treatment of Employer-Provided Medical Insurance
Huang, Kevin X. D.; Huffman, Gregory W. - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2010
results in higher unemployment, lower output, and lower welfare. Furthermore, having the government raise taxes to finance the … provision of medical care results in substantial decreases in employment, output and welfare. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008692913
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Must One Be an Ogre to Rationally Prefer Aiding the Nearby to the Distant Needy?
Weymark, John A - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2013
Caspar Hare ["Rationality and the Distant Needy," Philosophy & Public Affairs 35 (2007): 161-78] has offered two distinct, but related, arguments whose purpose is to show that anyone in a position to help someone in great need at little personal cost who is minimally decent must violate one or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010875552
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Social Welfare Functions
Weymark, John A - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2012
This article provides an introduction to the use of social welfare functions for the comparative evaluation of social … alternatives. Three main approaches are considered: Bergson–Samuelson social welfare functions, Arrovian social welfare functions …, and Sen's social welfare functionals. How the measurability and comparability of utility can be modelled and how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213818
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Conundrums for Nonconsequentialists
Weymark, John A - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2013
There are a number of single-profile impossibility theorems in social choice theory and welfare economics that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010671501
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Citizen Candidates and Voting Over Incentive-Compatible Nonlinear Income Tax Schedules
Brett, Craig; Weymark, John A - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2014
Majority voting over the nonlinear tax schedules proposed by a continuum of citizen candidates is considered. The analysis extends the finite-individual model of Röell (unpublished manuscript, 2012). Each candidate proposes the tax schedule that is utility maximal for him subject to budget and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011246094
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Citizen Candidates and Voting Over Incentive-Compatible Nonlinear Income Tax Schedules
Brett, Craig; Weymark, John A - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2014
Majority voting over the nonlinear tax schedules proposed by a continuum of citizen candidates is considered. The analysis extends the finite-individual model of Röell (unpublished manuscript, 2012). Each candidate proposes the tax schedule that is utility maximal for him subject to budget and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261646
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Developing Country Second-Mover Advantage in Competition Over Standards and Taxes
Groenert, Valeska; Wooders, Myrna; Zissimos, Ben - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2009
We show that, in competition between a developed country and a developing country over environmental standards and taxes, the developing country may have a 'second-mover advantage.' In our model, firms do not unanimously prefer lower environmental-standard levels. We introduce this feature to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013874
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Developing Country Second-Mover Advantage in Competition over Environmental Standards and Taxes
Groenert, Valeska; Wooders, Myrna; Zissimos, Ben - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2010
We show that, in competition between a developed country and a developing country over environmental standards and taxes, the developing country may have a 'second- mover advantage.' In our model, firms do not unanimously prefer lower environmental- standard levels. We introduce this feature to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727242