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On the private exchange of charitable gifts

Nocetti, Diego - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 1, pp. 73-83

The private exchange of charitable gifts (e.g. charity gift-cards) has recently become an important source of donations to charities. In this paper we study this new phenomenon using the classical model of private provision of public goods, modified to account for exchange of private gifts....

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Stochastic Dominance, Poverty and the Treatment Effect Curve

Verme, Paolo - 2010

The paper proposes a simple framework for the evaluation of anti-poverty programs based on single means differences, FGT poverty measures and stochastic dominance theory. A Treatment Effect Curve (TEC) is derived and its use illustrated with simulated data

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A note on evaluating freedom of opinion

Eckert, Daniel; Klamler, Christian - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 1805-1813

Following the recent generalization of social choice in the literature on judgment aggregation, we extend the analysis of freedom of choice from sets of alternatives to sets of opinions. We establish the analogue of the cardinality based freedom of choice measure and suggest an alternative...

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A straightforward proof of Arrow's theorem

Fey, Mark - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 1792-1797

We present a straightforward proof of Arrow's Theorem. Our approach avoids some of the complexities of existing proofs and is meant to be transparent and easily followed.

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Does prompting for revision influence subjects' offers in willingness to accept â€“ willingness to pay lab experiments?

Kingsley, David C.; Brown, Thomas C. - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2580-2585

The willingness to accept â€“ willingness to pay disparity raises questions about accepted economic theory. Plott and Zeiler (2005) have suggested that the disparity is the result of subject misconception about experimental procedures and, in an experiment designed to control for subject...

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Lower and upper tail concern and the rank dependent social evaluation functions

Puerta, Carmen; Urrutia, Ana - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 3250-3259

state that social evaluation function should be more sensitive to transfers that take place lower down in the distribution … degree upside positional transfer sensitivity which imposes more sensitivity to transfers further up the scale; and therefore … combines the lower tail concern when transfers occur at the low tail of the distribution, and the upper tail concern when they …

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Values, attitudes, and pro-environmental behaviours â€“ is there a link? Results from a Norwegian survey.

Sælen, Håkon; Westskog, Hege; Strumse, Einar - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 486-493

We ask how the strength of the link from values and attitudes and to pro-environmental behaviour varies across different consumption domains. We base our analysis on a survey of the Norwegian population, focusing on values, attitudes, and pro-environmental behaviour relating to waste, food,...

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Happiness and Environmental Degradation: What Determines Happiness?

Tiwari, Aviral Kumar - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 4, pp. 3192-3210

There is much interest among Economists using both theoretical and empirical approaches regarding subjective measures of well being. The present study is an attempt in this direction and it examines if there is a relationship between happiness of people and environmental degradation. We did...

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Contest with cooperative behavior: a note

Caruso, Raul - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 2, pp. 1747-1754

The point of departure of this paper is that players in a contest may have mixed motives. On one hand, players have the interest of winning the contest and taking the prize. On the other hand, they could be better off taking part in a contest which implies some cooperative behaviour. This paper...

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Assessing competitive conditions and welfare losses in the Greek food and beverages manufacturing industry: An extended Hall-Roeger approach

Rezitis, Anthony N; Kalantzi, Maria A. - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 2, pp. 1413-1427

This paper extends the Hall-Roeger methodology in order to investigate the market structure and to measure the degree of market power in the Greek food and beverages manufacturing industry over the period 1984â€“2007 at the three-digit SIC level. The present paper also estimates the net and...

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