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Appraising Diversity with an Ordinal Notion of Similarity: An Axiomatic Approach
Gravel, Nicolas; Bervoets, Sebastian - 2004
This paper provides an axiomatic characterization of two rules for comparing alternative sets of objects on the basis of the diversity that they offer. The framework considered assumes a finite universe of objects and an a priori given ordinal quadernary relation that compares alternative pairs...
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Liberalisation of network industries: Is the electricity sector an exception to the rule?
Coppens, François; Vivet, David - 2004
telecommunications is in line with micro-economic theory, which predicts an increase in efficiency and lower prices when markets are …
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The cluster concept as a multi-dimensional thematic field: Methodological and substantive perspectives
Stahlecker, Thomas; Kroll, Henning - 2012
The empirical sub-sections of this article have shown that the both production and technology oriented clusters are a very diverse and regionally embedded phenomenon. Within this context, the observed diversity of political strategies and support measures whose ultimate goal is to 'generate...
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On the formation of international migration policies when no country has an exclusive policy-setting say
Stark, Oded; Casarico, Alessandra; Devillanova, Carlo; … - 2011
This paper identifies the migration policies that emerge when both the sending country and the receiving country wield power to set migration quotas, when controlling migration is costly, and when the decision how much human capital to acquire depends, among other things, on the migration...
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Minimum Price Guarantees In a Consumer Search Model
Janssen, Maarten; Parakhonyak, Alexei - 2009
This paper is the first to examine the effect of minimum price guaranteesin a sequential search model. Minimum price guarantees are notadvertised and only known to consumers when they come to the shop.We show that in such an environment, minimum price guarantees increasethe value of buying the...
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Voting over Taxes: The Case of Tax Evasion
Traxler, Christian - 2006
This paper studies majority voting on taxes when tax evasion is possible. We characterize the voting equilibrium where the agent with median taxed income is pivotal. Since the ranking of true incomes does not necessarily correspond to the ranking of taxed incomes, the decisive voter can differ...
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Increasing Returns to Scale and Welfare: Ranking the Multiple Deterministic Equilibria
Bambi, Mauro; Saïdi, Aurélien - 2008
We consider a real business cycle model with a productive externality and an aggregate non- convex technology set µa la Benhabib and Farmer embodying capacity utilization, which exhibits indeterminacy of the steady state and multiplicity of deterministic equilibria under plausible values of the...
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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the "Right" Indicator
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...
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Models as Measuring Instruments
Rodenburg, Peter - 2004
in models by analysing the measurement of duration dependence of unemployment. Since search theory can’t be made … - provided the models is calibrated - this suffice for measurement. This paper explores this construction of a measuring device … measurement to take place by modelling behaviour according to some assumptions, which operate as constraints. While this Weibull …
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The measurement of social welfare
Tsuneki, Atsushi - 2007
the present suboptimal economy. We discuss pros and cons of our approach for the measurement of welfare compared with … other approaches to applied welfare economics, especially the measurement of deadweight loss. …
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