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Populism and Social Polarization in European Democracies

Ginsburgh, Victor; Perelman, Sergio; Pestieau, Pierre - 2020

The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...

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Premature Deaths, Accidental Bequests and Fairness

Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - 2017

, 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 …

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Populism and Social Polarization in European Democracies

Ginsburgh, Victor - 2020

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Fair Long-Term Care Insurance

Leroux, M.‐L. - 2019

The study of optimal long-term care (LTC) social insurance is generally carried out under the utilitarian social criterion, which penalizes individuals who have a lower capacity to convert resources into well-being, such as dependent elderly individuals or prematurely dead individuals. This...

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Efficient nonanthropocentric nature protection

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2004

This paper analyzes nature protection by a social planner under different ?utilitarian? social welfare functions. For … efficient allocations when social welfare is anthropocentric (only consumers have positive welfare weights), and when social … welfare is nonanthropocentric (all species have positive welfare weights). Not surprisingly, biocentric social welfare calls …

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Optimal Lockdown and Social Welfare

Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2021

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 …

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Economic land use, ecosystem services and microfounded species dynamics

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2004

In an integrated economy-ecosystem model humans choose their land use and leave the residual land as habitat for three species forming a food chain. The size of habitat determines the diversity and abundance of species. That biodiversity generates, in turn, a flow of ecosystem services with...

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Fair long-term care insurance

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Grégory - 2019

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Estate taxation with both accidental and planned bequests

Pestieau, Pierre; Sato, Motohiro - 2006

Actual inheritances are an hybrid of canonical types of bequests and in particular of accidental bequests and altruistic bequests. In this paper, bequeathed estate consists of two components: an amount intended by altruistic parents and an amount which results from the premature death of...

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Income taxation of couples and the tax unit choice

Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie; Pestieau, Pierre - 2007

This paper studies the optimal non linear income tax of couples. We build a general unitary model of labor supply and allow multidimensional heterogeneity in a discrete type framework. We concentrate our analysis on the resulting intra-family labor allocation of labor supplies and show that this...

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