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Why praise inequality? : public good provision, income distribution and social welfare
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009
We consider a two-person Cournot game of voluntary contributions to a public good with identical individual preferences, and examine equilibrium aggregate welfare under a separable, symmetric and concave social welfare function. Assuming the public good is pure, Itaya, de Meza and Myles (Econ....
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A model of dynamic conflict in ethnocracies
Bakshi, Dripto; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2015
We model an infinitely repeated Tullock contest, over the sharing of some given resource, between two ethnic groups. The resource is allocated by a composite state institution according to relative ethnic control; hence the ethnic groups contest the extent of institutional ethnic bias. The...
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A subscription vs. appropriation framework for natural resource conflicts
Bakshi, Dripto; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2020
We examine how cross-community cost or benefit spillovers, arising from the consumption of group-specific public goods, affect both inter-group conflicts over the appropriation of such goods and decentralized private provision for their production. Our model integrates production versus...
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Between-group contests over group-specific public goods with within-group fragmentation
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Neogi, Ranajoy Guha - 2017
We model a contest between two groups of equal population size over the division of a group-specific public good. Each group is fragmented into sub-groups. Each sub-group allocates effort between production and contestation. There is perfect coordination within sub-groups, but sub-groups cannot...
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A rent-seeking perspective on imperial peace
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2024
We model a rent-seeking contest among two "identity ideologues", differentially located along a uni-dimensional identity continuum, and a "mercenary", who can choose any location in-between. The contest jointly awards an identity-relevant good ("religion") and an identity-irrelevant good...
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Supply theory sans profit-maximization
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009
predictive content of the traditional theory of competitive supply. A number of key results in the deterministic theory follow as … predictive content of the classical theory of competitive firm behavior from its a priori roots in profit maximization, while … subsuming the traditional theory as a special case. -- Supply aggregation ; stochastic supply function ; stochastic consistency …
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Mother or child? : intra-household redistribution under gender-asymmetric altruism
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009
In developing societies, social norms typically ascribe differential weights to paternal, maternal and communal (or state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of voluntary contribution to children's goods in a two-adult...
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Comparative statics for a consumer with possibly multiple optimum consumption bundles
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Pattanaik, Prasanta K. - 2010
in the standard revealed preference theory of consumers’ behaviour. These results are however derived for demand … preference approach to the theory of consumers' behaviour, this note establishes such results for demand correspondences; the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942309
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Contraction consistent stochastic choice correspondence
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009
-317, 1971) and Dasgupta and Pattanaik (Econ Theory 31: 35-50, 2007) fall out as corollaries. Thus, conditions are established … axiomatic foundation for a general revealed preference theory of choice behaviour. -- Stochastic choice correspondence …
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Repayment versus investment conditions and exclusivity in lending contracts
Bougheas, Spiros P.; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Morrissey, Oliver - 2009
Lenders condition future loans on some index of past performance. Typically, banks condition future loans on repayments of earlier obligations whilst international organizations (official lenders) condition future loans on the implementation of some policy action (‘investment’). We build an...
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