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On the Equivalence between Progressive Taxation and Inequality Reduction
Ju, Biung-Ghi - 2008
traditional literature on taxation, the equivalence between inequality reduction and the combination of progressivity and income …We establish the precise connections between progressive taxation and inequality reduction, in a setting where the … order preservation does not always hold in this setting. However, we show that, among rules satisfying consistency and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012726599
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On the Equivalence between Progressive Taxation and Inequality Reduction
Ju, Biung-Ghi - 2008
traditional literature on taxation, the equivalence between inequality reduction and the combination of progressivity and income …We establish the precise connections between progressive taxation and inequality reduction, in a setting where the … order preservation does not always hold in this setting. However, we show that, among rules satisfying consistency and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771839
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Harnessing Reciprocity to Promote Cooperation and the Provisioning of Public Goods
Rand, David G.; Yoeli, Erez; Hoffman, Moshe - 2015
How can we maximize the common good? This is a central organizing question of public policy design, across political parties and ideologies. The answer typically involves the provisioning of public goods such as fresh air, national defense, and knowledge. Public goods are costly to produce but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014037089
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The 'As if' Approach to Game Theory: 3 Positive Results and 4 Obstacles
Weibull, Jörgen W. - 1993
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The right of withdrawal in the treaty of Lison : a game theoretic reflection on different decision processes in the EU
Lechner, Susanne (contributor); Ohr, Renate (contributor) - 2008
The ways of decision making within the EU have significantly changed in the last decades: the rule of unanimity has been more and more substituted by majority voting in order to speed up decision-making processes in a Union of 27 heterogeneous member states. A third possibility is now offered by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003776195
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Computational complexity in additive hedonic games
Dimitrov, Dinko; Sung, Shao Chin - 2008
We investigate the computational complexity of several decision problems in hedonic coalition formation games and demonstrate that attaining stability in such games remains NP-hard even when they are additive. Precisely, we prove that when either core stability or strict core stability is under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799165
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Collective commitment
Roessler, Christian; Shelegia, Sandro; Strulovici, Bruno - 2014
We consider collective decisions made by agents whose preferences and power depend on past events and decisions. Faced with an ineffcient equilibrium and an opportunity to commit to a policy, can the agents reach an agreement on such a policy? Under an intuitive condition linking power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375836
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Measuring the power of nodes in digraphs
Herings, Peter Jean-Jacques; Laan, Gerard van der; … - 2001
Many economic and social situations can be represented by a digraph. Both axiomatic and iterativemethods to determine the strength or power of all the nodes in a digraph have been proposed inthe literature. We propose a new method, where the power of a node is determined by both thenumber of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318587
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Agreeing on efficient emissions reduction
Bos, Olivier; Roussillon, Béatrice; Schweinzer, Paul - 2013
We propose a simple mechanism providing incentives to reduce harmful emissions to their efficient level without infracting upon productive efficiency. The mechanism employs a contest creating incentives among participating nations to simultaneously exert efficient productive and efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009772819
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The value of technology improvements in games with externalities : a fresh look at offsetting behavior
Hoy, Michael; Polborn, Mattias - 2014
How should we evaluate the welfare implications of improvements to safety technologies in the presence of offsetting behavior? We model this problem as a symmetric game in which each player's payoff depends on his own action and the average action of the other players, and analyze under which...
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