A number of studies have evaluated the social welfare impact of price and income changes using equivalent incomes that are computed at some reference price vector, and an aggregator with these equivalent incomes as arguments in place of a social welfare function. This paper investigates the...

Im Dezember 2007 hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht entschieden, dass die derzeitige Verwaltung der Empfänger von Arbeitslosengeld II nicht verfassungsmäßig ist. Wie sollte die Organisationsstruktur umgebaut werden?

Public policies often involve choices of alternatives in which the size and the composition of the population may vary. Examples are the allocation of resources to prenatal care and the design of aid packages to developing countries. In order to assess the corresponding feasible choices on...