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This paper studies the impact of a key feature of competitive markets on moral behavior: the possibility that a competitor will step in and conclude the deal if a conscientious market actor forgoes a profitable business opportunity for ethical reasons. We study experimentally whether people...
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how a novel criterion, Strongly Anonymous Utilitarianism, can be characterized by combining Strong Anonymity with other …, separability, and population ethics. We relate it to other strongly anonymous utilitarian criteria and demonstrate its …
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Many tasks can only be completed if several people contribute. Likewise, many institutions, e.g. voting rules, require the support of several people to implement specific decisions. In such situations, individual costs from supporting may decrease in the number of supporters. This holds true for...
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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 …
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critiques to utilitarianism by satisfying the following three fairness axioms: possibility of trade-offs sets a limit to the …
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We impose a horizontal equity restriction on the problem of finding the optimal utilitarian tax mix. The horizontal equity constraint requires that individuals with the same ability have to pay the same amount of taxes regardless of their preferences for leisure. Contrary to normal findings, we...
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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...
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Undiscounted utilitarianism as a criterion of intergeneration justice has been questioned for different reasons: It has … allocation must involve discounting, and (2) that undiscounted utilitarianism subjects the present generation to heavy demands …-nologies) that undiscounted utilitarianism is so malleable that any efficient and non-decreasing allocation can be the unique optimum …
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This paper studies the design of an optimal non linear inheritance taxation when individuals differ in wage as well as in their risks of both mortality and old-age dependance. We assume that the government cannot distinguish between bequests motives, that is whether bequests result from...
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We propose and axiomatize probability adjusted rank-discounted critical-level generalized utilitarianism (PARDCLU). We … thus generalize rank-discounted utilitarianism (RDU) (proposed by Zuber and Asheim, 2012) to variable population and risky … other policy issues with long-run consequences. We illustrate how PARDCLU yields rank-dependent expected utilitarianism …
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