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Infinite Population Utilitarian Criteria
Asheim, Geir B.; Kamaga, Kohei; Zuber, Stéphane - 2022
how a novel criterion, Strongly Anonymous Utilitarianism, can be characterized by combining Strong Anonymity with other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013300869
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Globalisation and the Slope of the Phillips Curve
Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild - 2021
We study the effects of globalisation on the slope of the New Keynesian Phillips curve for CPI inflation, based on a broad panel of 35 countries and controlling for possibly non-linear exchange rate effects. We find that the output gap generally has a significant positive effect on inflation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322779
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Justifying social discounting: The rank-discounted utilitarian approach
Zuber, Stéphane; Asheim, Geir B. - 2010
utilitarianism on non-decreasing streams, but it treats all generations impartially: discounting becomes the mere expression of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274972
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Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism
Dietz, Simon; Asheim, Geir B. - 2011
utilitarianism (DU). DU is controversial, both due to the conditions through which it is justified and due to its consequences for … measures to justify their present costs. In this paper, we propose sustainable discounted utilitarianism (SDU) as an … alternative principle for evaluation of climate policy. Unlike undiscounted utilitarianism, which always assigns zero relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277391
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Please Bring Me the New York Times - On the European Roots of Richard Abel Musgrave
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021
Richard Musgrave was one of the around 200 academic economists who emigrated from Germany when Fascism came to dominate the country. This memorial lecture traces the German and European roots of Richard Musgrave's oeuvre, trying to shed light on his family background as well as on the political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316948
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Escaping the repugnant conclusion: Rank-discounted utilitarianism with variable population
Asheim, Geir B.; Zuber, Stéphane - 2012
out the space between critical-level utilitarianism and (a version of) critical-level leximin. Moreover, it satisfies many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288457
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A Fairness Justification of Utilitarianism
Piacquadio, Paolo Giovanni - 2016
critiques to utilitarianism by satisfying the following three fairness axioms: possibility of trade-offs sets a limit to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451415
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Age-Related Taxation of Bequests in the Presence of a Dependency Risk
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre - 2020
This paper studies the design of the optimal linear taxation of bequests when individuals differ in wage as well as in their risks of both mortality and old-age dependence. We assume that the government cannot distinguish between bequests motives, that is whether bequests resulted from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425548
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Infinite Population Utilitarian Criteria
Asheim, Geir B.; Kamaga, Kohei; Zuber, Stéphane - 2022
how a novel criterion, Strongly Anonymous Utilitarianism, can be characterized by combining Strong Anonymity with other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177610
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The Optimal Design of Assisted Reproductive Technologies Policies
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2022
with the postulated social welfare criterion. Utilitarianism redistributes only between individuals with unequal fecundity … information and in order to solve for the incentive problem, utilitarianism recommends also to either tax or subsidize ART …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013353415