, whereas the conventional 100 % tax view holds under the standard utilitarian social welfare criterion, it does not hold under … the ex post egalitarian criterion, which assigns a strong weight to the welfare of unlucky short-lived individuals. From …

postulated social welfare criterion. We first characterize optimal lockdown under utilitarianism, and we show that this social … further reduces average utility, but leads to a larger aggregate welfare. The optimal lockdown under utilitarianism is also …

the excessive entry prediction. Tax evasion raises the number of firms in market equilibrium and can alter their welfare … the direct welfare consequences of tax evasion and the relationship between evasion and the tax base. We also determine … conditions which imply that overall welfare declines with tax evasion. …

Trade unions are often argued to cause allocative inefficiencies and to lower welfare. We analyze whether this … welfare. We find that an increase in the union's bargaining power raises welfare if the (inverse) demand curve is …

than compensate the welfare reducing impact of market power, irrespective of whether the number of firms is given … exogenously or determined endogenously by a profit constraint. We further show that welfare in a setting with adverse selection … may be higher than the maximized welfare level attainable in a world with perfect observability. …

profits decline. Overall welfare rises. Our theoretical results have implications for estimating the elasticity of the labor …