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Micheletto, Luca - 2009

inequality averse social welfare function and the agents’ market ability is private information. The analysis points out that the …

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Competitive altruism and endogenous reference group selection in private provision of environmental public goods

Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2012

We develop and test a model of social comparison in which individuals gain status through pro-social behavior (competitive altruism) and in which they endogenously choose the reference group and associated reference standard involved in signaling status (reference group selection). In our...

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Ramsey, Pigou, Heterogenous Agents, and Non-Atmospheric Consumption Externalities

Wendner, Ronald - 2011

This paper analyzes the effects of non-atmospheric consumption externalities on optimal commodity taxation and on the social cost and optimal levels of public good provision. A negative consumption externality, by lowering the social cost of public good provision, may require the second-best...

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Equity aversion, inequality aversion and economic welfare : on the macroeconomic substantiation of microeconomic utility functions

Sell, Friedrich L.; Stratmann, Felix - 2009

conclusions concerning economic policy in different areas. -- economic welfare ; inequity aversion ; fairness concepts … findings of selected fairness models which include social preferences change when equity aversionʺ is integrated into the … sich die Eigenschaften, Zielfunktionen und Ergebnisse von ausgewählten Fairness-Modellen mit sozialen Präferenzen bei …

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What makes us want to have more than others? : explaining relative consumumption effects of public and private goods

Hillesheim, Inga; Mechtel, Mario - 2011

We conduct a survey with 264 participants to test for relative consumption effects of national and local public goods as well as private goods. In contrast to previous results, we find that relative consumption effects are more pronounced for private goods than for public goods. Our second...

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Relative consumption concerns or non-monotonic preferences?

Hillesheim, Inga; Mechtel, Mario - 2012

We conduct a classroom survey to investigate the willingness to sacrifice consumption in absolute terms in order to ascend above others in terms of consumption levels. In contrast to other studies using survey methodologies, participants are divided into a treatment and a control group. This...

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Consumption Externalities and Pigouvian Ranking - A Generalized Cobb-Douglas Example

Wendner, Ronald - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of consumption externalities on the quot;Pigouvian ranking,'quot; according to which the second-best level of public good provision is smaller than the first-best level. Consumption externalities introduce exceptions to the Pigouvian ranking. Two necessary and...

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Ramsey, Pigou, and a Consumption Externality

Wendner, Ronald - 2010

This paper analyzes the effects of consumption externalities on optimal taxation and on the social cost and optimal levels of public good provision. If public and private goods are Hicksian complements and no lump sum taxes are available, the second-best level of public good provision can exceed...

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Essays on political economy and social preferences

Mechtel, Mario - 2012

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Noblesse oblige? : determinants of survival in a life and death situation

Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Savage, David A. (contributor) - 2008

This paper explored the determinants of survival in a life and death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested to see whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...

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