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Sharing the Cost of a Public Good without Subsidies

FLEURBAEY, Marc; SPRUMONT, Yves - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2006

We study the construction of a social ordering function for the case of a public good financed by contributions from the population, and we extend the analysis of Maniquet and Sprumont (2004) to the case when contributions cannot be negative, i.e. agents cannot receive subsidies from others.

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A Mixed Bentham-Rawls Criterion for Intergenerational Equity : Theory and Implications

ALVAREZ-CUADRADO, Francisco; LONG, Ngo Van - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2007

Ranking development programs using integrals of discounted utilities can yield drastic consequences that offend our sense of justice. New alternative social welfare criteria should be considered. A reaction to discounted utilitarianism is to moderate its effects by adding to the social welfare...

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Sharing the Cost of a Public Good without Subsidies

FLEURBAEY, Marc; SPRUMONT, Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2006

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Determinants of Insurers’ Performance in Risk Pooling, Risk Management, and Financial Intermediation Activities

Dionne, Georges; Gagné, Robert; Nouira, Abdelhakim - Institut d'Économie Appliquée, HEC Montréal (École … - 2007

Corporate finance theory predicts that firms’ characteristics affect agency costs and hence their efficiency. Cummins … et al (2006) have proposed a cost function specification that measures separately insurer efficiency in handling risk …. Independent agents and high capitalization reduce the cost efficiency of risk pooling. Certain characteristics such as being a …

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Should we Abandon the Intermediation Approach for Analyzing Banking Performance?

Fortin, Mario; Leclerc, Andre - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2007

that measures of banking efficiency and productivity are biased when there is an incomplete coverage of assets and …

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Malmquist indexes with quasi-fixed inputs: An application to school districts in Québec

Ouellette, Pierre; Vierstraete, Valérie - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2008

In a non-market environment, there is no pressure coming from competitors that leads firms toward efficiency. Public …

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Economic Effects of Risk Classification Bans

Dionne, Georges; Rothschild, Casey G. - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2014

classification may reduce informational asymmetry-induced adverse selection and improve insurance market efficiency. It may also have …

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A recursive core for cooperative games with overlapping coalitions

Agbaglah, Messan - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2014

This paper develops an extension of the recursive core to the setting of overlapping coalitions. We show that the cooperative game theoretical traditional way of separating a deviant coalition from the game played by the ones left behind is no more satisfactory. We therefore introduce a new...

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The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives

Dostie, Benoit; Jayaraman, Rajshri - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2009

improving efficiency. …

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Determinants of Insurers' Performance in Risk Pooling, Risk Management, and Financial Intermediation Activities

Dionne, Georges; Gagné, Robert; Nouira, Abdelhakim - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2007

Corporate finance theory predicts that firms' characteristics affect agency costs and hence their efficiency. Cummins … et al. (2006) have proposed a cost function specification that measures separately insurer efficiency in handling risk …. Independent agents and high capitalization reduce the cost efficiency of risk pooling. Certain characteristics such as being a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015328