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Liberal principles for social welfare relations in infinitely-lived societies

Lombardi, Michele; Veneziani, Roberto - 2009

This paper extends the analysis of liberal principles in social choice recently proposed by Mariotti and Veneziani (2009a) to infinitely-lived societies. First, a novel characterisation of the inegalitarian leximax social welfare relation is provided based on the Individual Benefit Principle,...

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Tax Rules

Gersbach, Hans; Hahn, Volker; Imhof, Stephan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We examine the provision of public projects under tax and subsidy rules. We find that tax rules separated from project cum subsidy decisions exhibit several advantages when incentive problems of the agenda-setter are taken into account. In particular, tax rules may prevent the proposal of...

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Debt-sensitive Majority Rules

Becker, Johannes Gerd; Gersbach, Hans; Grimm, Oliver - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We examine debt-sensitive majority rules. According to such a rule, the higher a planned public debt, the higher the parliamentary majority required to approve it. In a two-period model we compare debt-sensitive majority rules with the simple majority rule when individuals differ regarding their...

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Flexible Majority Rules for Central Banks

Gersbach, Hans; Pachl, Bernhard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We propose a flexible majority rule for central bank councils where the size of the majority depends monotonically on the change in interest rate within a particular time frame. Small changes in interest rate require a small share of supporting votes, even less than 50%. We show that flexible...

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Tax Contracts and Government Formation

Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We introduce tax contracts and examine how they affect government formation and welfare of voters in a democracy with proportional elections. A tax contract specifies a range of tax rates a party is committed to if in government. We develop a new model of party competition in which parties...

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Strong subjectivism in the Marxian theory of exploitation : a critique

Veneziani, Roberto; Yoshihara, Naoki - 2009

This paper critically analyses the strongly subjectivist approach to exploitation theory recently proposed by Matsuo … exploitation index can be constructed. It is argued that a minimal objectivism is necessary in exploitation theory, whereby … related to the 'New Interpretation' ([1]; [3]). It is argued that it captures the core intuitions of exploitation theory and …

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Exploitation as the unequal exchange of labour : an axiomatic approach

Yoshihara, Naoki; Veneziani, Roberto - 2009

Roemer's (1982, 1988) classical approach and all the crucial insights of exploitation theory are generalised, proving that …

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A product-market theory of industry-specific training

Gersbach, Hans (contributor); Schmutzler, Armin (contributor) - 2006

We develop a product market theory that explains why firms provide their workers with skills that are sufficiently …

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Social democracy and distributive conflict in the UK : 1950 - 2010

Fiorio, Carlo V.; Mohun, Simon; Veneziani, Roberto - 2013

In the last three decades, two questions have been central for the Left. Is there a future for electoral socialism and social democracy? And, is it any longer possible to promote a significant redistribution of income in favour of labour? Political and economic events seem to suggest negative...

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The measurement of labour content : a general approach

Yoshihara, Naoki; Veneziani, Roberto - 2013

theory. …

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