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How are Income and Non-Income Factors Different in Promoting Happiness? An Answer to the Easterlin Paradox

Tian, Guoqiang; Yang, Liyan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper develops a formal economic theory to explain the Easterlin paradox-average happiness levels do not … promoting people's happiness, and provides a foundation for studying happiness from the perspectives of social welfare … paradox appears depends on the level of non-income factors. Happiness rises with income only up to a critical point that is …

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A formula for the optimal taxation in Probabilistic Voting Models characterized by Single Mindedness

Canegrati, Emanuele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This work intends to specify a formula for the optimal taxation in Probabilistic Voting Models with Single Mindedness Theory. The goal is to find an equivalent expression to the Ramsey’s rule for a political economy environment where Governments are assumed to be Leviathans rather than...

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The single-mindedness of labor unions when transfers are not Lump-Sum

canegrati, emanuele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In this paper I analyse a labour market where the wage is endogenously determined according to an Efficient Bargaining process between a firm and a labour union whose members are partitioned into two social groups: the old and the young. Furthermore, I exploit the Single-Mindedness theory, which...

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A Single-Mindedness model with n generations

Emanuele, Canegrati - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In this paper I will analyse the redistribution of income amongst n generations using the Single-mindedness Theory. I will introduce a new expression for the balanced-budget constraint, no longer based on lump- sum transfers as in the traditional literature, but rather on more realistic labour...

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Is the Welfare State Sustainable? Experimental Evidence on Citizens' Preferences for Redistribution

Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The sustainability of the welfare state ultimately depends on citizens' preferences for income redistribution. They are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its uses (the unemployed, old-age pensioners, people...

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Efectos heterogéneos en la demanda ante un impuesto al refresco en México

Cahuana-Hurtado, Lucero; Sosa-Rubí, Sandra; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The increasing burden of obesity and related non-communicable diseases in the world has encouraged the design of effective policies in order to contain this trend. Excise taxes on low-nutritious food and sugar-sweetened beverages consumption, such as soft-drinks, have been proposed. Currently, a...

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Equity and justice in global warming policy

Kverndokk, Snorre; Rose, Adam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Many countries are implementing or at least considering policies to counter increasingly certain negative impacts from climate change. An increasing amount of research has been devoted to the analysis of the costs of climate change and its mitigation, as well as to the design of policies, such...

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Conundrums in public distribution system in India: an assessment by states and social groups

Goli, Srinivas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Growing number of studies accentuated enigmas in PDS system, many of them provided evidences based on National Sample Survey (NSS) and other official statistics, more particularly by major states. Many of them also highlighted theoretical and operational difficulties in existing policy...

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The rights and wrongs of intergenerational externalities

Spash, Clive L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992

Neither environmental economics nor environmental philosophy have adequately examined the moral implications of imposing environmental degradation and ecosystem instability upon our descendants. A neglected aspect of these problems is the supposed extent of the burden that the current generation...

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Negative externalities as the engine of growth in an evolutionary context

Antoci, Angelo; Bartolini, Stefano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

We present a simple growth model which has two original features: the strategic context considered, which is an evolutionary game, and the growth mechanism described, in which growth is caused by negative externalities. The emphasis in this growth mechanism is evidently different from that...

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