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Small states, large unitary states and federations

Wrede, Matthias - 2002

-ences, it analyzes strong Nash equilibria and coalition-proof equilibria at the union formation stage. …

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Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2018

Economists recommend to partly redistribute gains to losers from a structural reform, which in many cases may be required for making the reform politically viable. However, taxation is distortionary. Then, it is unclear that compensatory transfers can support a Pareto-improving reform. This...

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Self-enforcing international environmental agreements and trade : taxes versus caps

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2014

This paper studies within a multi-country model with international trade the stability of international environmental agreements (IEAs) when countries regulate carbon emissions either by taxes or caps. Regardless of whether coalitions play Nash or are Stackelberg leaders the principal message is...

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Strategic delegation in the formation of modest international environmental agreements

Spycher, Sarah; Winkler, Ralph - 2021 - This version: December 2020

policy. To this end, we expand the modest coalition formation game, in which countries first decide on whether to join an … and emissions. We find that strategic delegation crowds out all efforts to increase coalition sizes by less ambitious …

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Strategic delegation in the formation of modest international environmental agreements

Spycher, Sarah; Winkler, Ralph - 2020

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Distributional preferences in probabilistic and share contests

Hoffmann, Magnus; Kolmar, Martin - 2013

We analyze Nash equilibria of share and probabilistic contests when players have distributional preferences. If players are sufficiently similar, distributional preferences create multiple equilibria. For the case of only mildly heterogeneous players, equilibrium effort can be lower as well as...

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Volatility and resilience of democratic public-good provision

Gersbach, Hans; Pitsuwan, Fikri; Bolgè, Giovanni Valvassori - 2024

coalition with the agents who most desire, or least desire, the public good, and we may observe 'strange bedfellow' coalitions …

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Stable climate coalitions (Nash) and international trade

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2012

non-coalition countries with regard to emissions and welfare and compare business as usual with the coalition … liberalization by moving from autarky to free trade. Although the coalition steps up its mitigation effort, world emissions rise … environment as well as for the coalition countries' welfare and the aggregate welfare of all countries; it reduces the range of …

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Afriat's theorem for indivisible goods

Forges, Françoise; Iehlé, Vincent - 2013

We identify a natural counterpart of the standard GARP for demand data in which goods are all indivisible. We show that the new axiom (DARP, for “discrete axiom of revealed preference”) is necessary and sufficient for the rationalization of the data by a well-behaved utility function. Our...

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Distribution-neutral welfare ranking-extending pareto principle

Marjit, Sugata; Sarkar, Sandip - 2017

The well known Pareto criterion used in the context of efficiency and welfare has to do with absolute changes whereas in every domain of economic behaviour inequality or relative changes has become a major concern. We propose an inequality-preserving or distribution neutral Pareto criterion-the...

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