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Share the Gain, Share the Pain? Almost Transferable Utility, Changes in Production Possibilities, and Bargaining Solutions
Gugl, Elisabeth; Leroux, Justin - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2009
Consider an n-person economy in which efficiency is independent of distribution but the cardinal properties of the agents’ utility functions precludes transferable utility (a property we call “Almost TU”). We show that Almost TU is a necessary and sufficient condition for all agents to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528565
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Share the Gain, Share the Pain? Almost Transferable Utility, changes in production possibilities, and bargaining solutions
Gugl, Elisabeth; Leroux, Justin - Institut d'Économie Appliquée, HEC Montréal (École … - 2009
We consider an n-person economy in which efficiency is independent of distribution but the cardinal properties of the agents’ utility functions preclude transferable utility (a property we call "Almost TU"). We show that Almost TU is a necessary and sufficient condition for all agents to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592376
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Sharing the Cost of a Public Good: An Incentive-Constrained Axiomatic Approach
SPRUMONT, Yves; MANIQUET, François - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2006
partial, is possible. We search for incentive-constrained efficient allocation rules that display fairness properties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008617048
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Social Choice: Recent Developments
BOSSERT, Walter; WEYMARK, J.A. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2006
In the past quarter century, there has been a dramatic shift of focus in social choice theory, with structured sets of alternatives and restricted domains of the sort encountered in economic problems coming to the fore. This article provides an overview of some of the recent contributions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008617079
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Budget-Balance, Fairness and Minimal Manipulability
ANDERSSON, Tommy; EHLERS, Lars; SVENSSON, Lars-Gunnar - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2010
group of agents. Fairness requires that each agent weakly prefers his consumption bundle to any other agent’s bundle. Under … fairness, efficiency is equivalent to budget-balance (all the available money is allocated among the agents). Budget …-balance and fairness in general are incompatible with non-manipulability (Green and Laffont, 1979). We propose a new notion of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671538
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Budget-Balance, Fairness and Minimal Manipulability
ANDERSSON, Tommy; EHLERS, Lars; SVENSSON, Lars-Gunnar - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2010
group of agents. Fairness requires that each agent weakly prefers his consumption bundle to any other agent’s bundle. Under … fairness, efficiency is equivalent to budget-balance (all the available money is allocated among the agents). Budget …-balance and fairness in general are incompatible with non-manipulability (Green and Laffont, 1979). We propose a new notion of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933673
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Social Choice: Recent Developments
BOSSERT, Walter; WEYMARK, J.A. - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2006
In the past quarter century, there has been a dramatic shift of focus in social choice theory, with structured sets of alternatives and restricted domains of the sort encountered in economic problems coming to the fore. This article provides an overview of some of the recent contributions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005353335
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Sharing the Cost of a Public Good: an Incentive-Constrained Axiomatic Approach
SPRUMONT, Yves; MANIQUET, François - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2006
partial, is possible. We search for incentive-constrained efficient allocation rules that display fairness properties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005353508
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Are Foster Children Made Better Off by Informal Fostering Arrangements?
Kana, Legrand Yémélé; Dessy, Sylvain; Ewoudou, Jacques - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2010
Research on the effects of informal child fostering arrangements on the welfare of the children involved highlights cross-country disparities. Why may there be differences across countries with regard to the effects of informal child fostering arrangements? If in all countries reporting a high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008630016
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Le calcul de la valeur statistique d'une vie humaine
Dionne, Georges; Lebeau, Martin - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2010
Notre société fait face à de nombreux risques qui affectent des vies humaines. Les autorités publiques doivent donc déterminer le budget optimal à consacrer à chaque projet visant à diminuer ces risques sociaux. L’analyse avantages-coûts est un outil très utilisé pour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008692989