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Sharing of climate risks across world regions
Emmerling, Johannes - 2014
Uncertainty is prevalent in the context of climate change impacts. Moreover, the distribution across the globe is not uniform. We analyze how climate risks could be reduced via an insurance scheme at the global scale across regions and quantify the potential welfare gains from such a scheme....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404114
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Exploitation as the unequal exchange of labour : an axiomatic approach
Yoshihara, Naoki; Veneziani, Roberto - 2009
positive profits. -- Justice ; Exploitation ; Class ; Convex economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933908
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Equity and justice in global warming policy
Kverndokk, Snorre; Rose, Adam - 2008
aspects, there is a growing literature on equity and justice. Climate change policy has important dimensions of distributive … justice, both within and across generations, but in this paper we survey only studies on the intragenerational aspect, i …. -- Economics of Climate Change ; Intragenerational Equity ; Distributive Justice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008798530
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Incorporating fairness motives into the impulse balance equilibrium and quantal response equilibrium concepts : an application to 2x2 games
Tavoni, Alessandro - 2009
Substantial evidence has accumulated in recent empirical works on the limited ability of the Nash equilibrium to rationalize observed behavior in many classes of games played by experimental subjects. This realization has led to several attempts aimed at finding tractable equilibrium concepts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008811006
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Welfare as simple(x) equity equivalents
Berger, Loïc; Emmerling, Johannes - 2017
Inequity plays a fundamental role in the evaluation of social welfare in many dimensions.We revisit the concept of inequity, whether across states of world (uncertainty), across individuals (inequality) and across generations (intergenerational equity), using a common framework generalizing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622070
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Electrification and socio-economic empowerment of women in India
Sedai, Ashish Kumar; Nepal, Rabindra; Jamasb, Tooraj - 2020
This study examines the effect of quality of electrification on empowerment of women in terms of economic autonomy, agency, mobility, decision-making abilities, and time allocation in fuel collection in India. It moves beyond the consensus of counting electrified households as a measure of...
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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? : the Janus face of Switzerland
Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009 - Rev. version
In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894063
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Economic well-being, social mobility, and preferences for income redistribution : evidence from a discrete choice experiment
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2010 - Revised version
In this paper, preferences for income redistribution in Switzerland are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) performed in 2008. In addition to the amount of redistribution as a share of GDP, attributes also included its uses (working poor, the unemployed, old-age pensioners,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900781
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Do religious beliefs explain preferences for income redistribution? : experimental evidence
Neustadt, Ilja - 2010
Due to the mixed empirical evidence bearing on the economic determinants, beliefs have been at the center of attention of research into preferences for income redistribution. We elicit preferences for income redistribution through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695996
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Is the welfare state sustainable? : experimental evidence on citizens' preferences for redistribution
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008696029