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Environmental, redistributive and revenue effects of policies promoting fuel efficient and electric vehicles
Bigler, Patrick; Radulescu, Doina - 2022
We analyze welfare implications of policies promoting environmentally friendly vehicles employing rich Swiss micro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167161
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Nonparametric welfare analysis for discrete choice : levels and differences of individual and social welfare
Capéau, Bart; De Sadeleer, Liebrecht; Maes, Sebastiaan; … - 2021
Empirical welfare analyses often impose stringent parametric assumptions on individuals' preferences and neglect … unobserved preference heterogeneity. In this paper, we develop a framework to conduct individual and social welfare analysis for … discrete choice that does not suffer from these drawbacks. We first adapt the broad class of individual welfare measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012513281
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The connexion between old and new approaches to financial satisfaction
Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2004
In this paper we compare the new satisfaction evaluation approach, developed in the nineties by Oswald, Clark, Blanchflower and others with the older income evaluation (IEQ) approach, developed by Van Praag and Kapteyn in the seventies of the previous century. We find that both approaches yield...
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Rank dependent utility, tax evasion and labor supply
Eide, Erling; Simson, Kristine von; Strøm, Steinar - 2010
In the simple Allingham-Sandmo portfolio model of tax evasion an expected utility maximizer will cheat more than what is estimated in empirical studies. Two main types of explanation have been suggested as solutions to this puzzle: (1) Tax payers act according to some non-expected utility...
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An exponential class of dynamic binary choice panel data models with fixed effects
Sadoon, Majid M. al-; Li, Tong; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2012
This paper develops a model for dynamic binary choice panel data that allows for unobserved heterogeneity to be arbitrarily correlated with covariates. The model is of the exponential type. We derive moment conditions that enable us to eliminate the unobserved heterogeneity term and at the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687207
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Emigration prospects and educational choices : evidence from the Lorraine-Luxembourg corridor
Beine, Michel; Fromentin, Vincent; Bachiller, Javier … - 2024
An extensive literature has documented the incentive effect of emigration prospects in terms of human capital accumulation in origin countries. Much less attention has been paid to the impact on specific educational choices. We provide some evidence from the behavior of students at the...
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The biological standard of living in the two Germanies
Komlos, John; Kriwy, Peter - 2001
Physical stature is used as a proxy for the biological standard of living in the two Germanies before and after unification in an analysis of a cross-sectionalsample (1998) of adult heights, as well as among military recruits of the1990s. West Germans tended to be taller than East Germans...
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The cost of well-being
Pettini, Anna; Patrizi, Vincenzo; Resce, Giuliano - 2015
Since measures of well-being are meant to be an exercise in documentation, but also a tool for policies and priorities, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the...
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A matter of taste : the negative welfare effect of expert judgments
Lagios, Nicolas; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2024
We study how experts influence consumer behavior and welfare by focusing on the Booker Prize. Leveraging the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015051678
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Do stringent environmental policies deter FDI? : M&A versus Greenfield
Bialek, Sylwia; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2015
This study examines how environmental stringency affects the location decision of foreign direct investments. We analyze a firm-level data set on German outbound FDI and innovate on previous studies by controlling for the mode of entry and applying the mixed-logit analysis. The results show that...
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