Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 36
Cover Image
Public providers, versus private providers, of public goods: A general equilibrium study of the role of the state
Economides, George; Philippopoulos, Apostolis; … - 2011
switch to private provision welfare improving for all agents including public employees. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277041
Cover Image
On the Provision of Excludable Public Goods - General Taxes or User Prices?
Economides, George; Philippopoulos, Apostolis - 2021
This paper compares some of the most common and debated ways of financing the provision of impure public goods/services in a unified dynamic general equilibrium framework. We study and rank a wide variety of ways ranging from provision without any user charges, to provision with full user...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314888
Cover Image
Public good provision with robust decision making
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Economides, George; … - 2012
associated with free riding on public good provision, implying that there are welfare benefits from robust policies even when the … the other country may discourage the implementation of robust policies, despite their welfare superiority. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290749
Cover Image
The Macroeconomic Effects of Funding U.S. Infrastructure
Malley, James; Philippopoulos, Apostolis - 2022
critically depends on the Frisch labour supply elasticity. Finally, when we compute differences in welfare across different … public financing regimes, the net welfare gains and losses are relatively minor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177564
Cover Image
The Macroeconomic Effects of Funding U.S. Infrastructure
Malley, James R.; Philippopoulos, Apostolis - 2022
critically depends on the Frisch labour supply elasticity. Finally, when we compute differences in welfare across different … public financing regimes, the net welfare gains and losses are relatively minor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013307758
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794141
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269528
Cover Image
Populism and Social Polarization in European Democracies
Ginsburgh, Victor - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826060
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866386
Cover Image
Welfare implications of public education spending rules
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Malley, Jim; … - 2008
In this paper, we quantitatively assess the welfare implications of alternative public education spending rules. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264526