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My philosophical case study concerns textbook presentations of the theory of demand. Does this theory contain anything more than just a collection of tautologies? In order to determine its empirical content, it must be viewed holistically. But then, the theory implies false factual claims. We...
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A number of studies have applied non-market valuation techniques to measure the value of cultural goods. Virtually all of these studies are single case applications and rely mostly on stated preferences, such as contingent valuation techniques. We compare the relative value of multiple,...
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interest-rate change.Our main findings are: First, a well-designed flexible majority rule can improve welfare compared to a … introduce a simple dynamic setup. Second, transparency regarding the rule has ambiguous effects on welfare and it may not be …
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stakeholders. The method evaluates infrastructure project alternatives based on a proposed sustainable construction social welfare …
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Este artículo analiza el problema de un planificador benevolente que desea controlar una población de agentes heterogéneos sujetos a perturbaciones idiosincrásticas. Esto es equivalente a un problema de control determinista en el que la variable de estado pertinente es la distribución de...
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A major area of concern for sociologists and economists who study poverty and inequality is the financial well being of low-income individuals as measured by their opportunities to participate in what is considered the "mainstream financial market." Scholars suggest that a myriad of factors,...
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This dissertation presents and estimates a model that examines the economic causes of intergenerational welfare … recipiency. Previous literature in this area has found that daughters of welfare recipients have a higher incidence of receiving … welfare than daughters of non-recipients. My dissertation measures the possible economic causes underlying this phenomenon by …
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instruments in altering diets and improving health. However, little is known about the welfare impacts of fiscal food policies on … society. This paper fills a gap in the literature byassessing the distributional impacts and welfare effects resulting from a … welfare economics framework is developed allowing the calculation of the distributional characteristics of various food groups …
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This paper focuses on the estimation of changes in economic welfare (real income) on different groups (income deciles … rise in food prices has resulted in a welfare loss for all income deciles, particularly for those in the lower income … economic welfare (real income) on different groups (income deciles) of Hungarian and Romanian consumers following food price …
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and welfare, we analyze the welfare from the agents economic that show the externalities negatives deriving from of the …
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