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I consider an extension of the Borda count to the case when individuals can have weak preferences, and I show that it satisfies several normatively appealing axioms. The first axiom is an extension to the case of weak preferences of the Modified Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives axiom...
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beliefs on penalty and detection probabilities for one tax after watching the deterrence actions the tax agency took on …
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tax taxpayers beliefs regarding the levels of enforcement, equity, and fairness of the tax system in a municipality in … average effects are found for the treatments designed to affect beliefs about the equity and fairness of the system. However …, the evidence also points out that not every taxpayer updates his or her beliefs in the same direction, as relevant …
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We consider any network environment in which the "best shot game" is played. This is the case where the possible actions are only two for every node (0 and 1), and the best response for a node is 1 if and only if all her neighbors play 0. A natural application of the model is one in which the...
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We use a controlled laboratory experiment to study the causal impact of income decreases within a time period on redistribution decisions at the end of that period, in an environment where we keep fixed the sum of incomes over the period. First, we investigate the effect of a negative income...
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This paper considers the environmental policy and welfare implications of a merger between environment firms (i.e., firms managing environmental resources or supplying pollution abatement goods and services). The traditional analysis of mergers in Cournot oligopolies is extended in two ways....
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