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Ju, Biung-Ghi; Moreno-Ternero, Juan D. - 2016

We model problems of allocating disputed properties as generalized exchange economies. Therein, agents have preferences and claims over multiple goods, and the social endowment of each good may not be sufficient to satisfy all individual claims. We focus on market-based allocation rules that...

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Voting for compromises: Alternative voting methods in polarized societies

Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Buckenmaier, Johannes - 2021

methods (Approval Voting and Borda Count) reduce the support for egoistic options and favor equity and efficiency, avoiding … extreme outcomes. Those methods differ in whether they favor equity or efficiency when the latter benefits a majority. Our …'s lives and contribute to social instability. Even if political compromises based on social conventions as equity or economic …

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Strategy-Proof and Fair Wages

Svensson, Lars-Gunnar - 2004

". The efficiency loss due to fairness and strategy-proofness becomes measurable in monetary terms. Two interpretations of …

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Overlapping Multiple Assignments

Kratz, Jörgen - 2014

efficiency, non-bossiness, group-monotonicity and group-invariance. It is also demonstrated that the characterization in Pápai …

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Interpreting the will of the people: A positive analysis of ordinal preference aggregation

Ambuehl, Sandro; Bernheim, Bert Douglas - 2021

We investigate how individuals think groups should aggregate members' ordinal preferences - that is, how they interpret "the will of the people." In an experiment, we elicit revealed attitudes toward ordinal preference aggregation and classify subjects according to the rules they apparently...

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Interpreting the will of the people: Social preferences over ordinal outcomes

Ambuehl, Sandro; Bernheim, Bert Douglas - 2024

We investigate the nature of social preferences when a decision maker's information is limited to group members' ordinal rankings. By studying choices made on behalf of others, we identify social choice rules that embody the normative values decision makers implicitly favor. Few people are...

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Pivotality and responsibility attribution in sequential voting

Bartling, Björn; Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon - 2015

This paper analyzes responsibility attributions for outcomes of collective decision making processes. In particular, we ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process. We conduct an experimental voting game in which...

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Inequality reducing properties of progressive income tax schedules: The case of endogenous income

Carbonell-Nicolau, Oriol; Llavador, Humberto - 2015

The case for progressive income taxation is often based on the classic result of Jakobsson (1976) and Fellman (1976), according to which progressive and only progressive income taxes - in the sense of increasing average tax rates on income-ensure a reduction in income inequality. This result has...

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Further results on the inequality reducing properties of income tax schedules

Carbonell-Nicolau, Oriol; Llavador, Humberto G. - 2018

Carbonell-Nicolau and Llavador (forthcoming) extend the classic result of Jakobsson (1976) and Fellman (1976) - according to which average-rate progressive, and only average-rate progressive income taxes, reduce income inequality - to the case of endogenous income. There it is shown that...

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Inequality reducing properties of progressive income tax schedules: The case of endogenous income

Carbonell-Nicolau, Oriol; Llavador, Humberto - 2016

The case for progressive income taxation is often based on the classic result of Jakobsson (1976) and Fellman (1976), according to which progressive and only progressive income taxes - in the sense of increasing average tax rates on income - ensure a reduction in income inequality. This result...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011687919

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