effects of alternative government debt levels and adjustment policies on macroeconomic aggregates and welfare. We find that …

analyses the effects both on consumers' welfare and on total emissions of some pollutants; for a thorough assessment of the …

goal generally implies lower taxes than do efficiency or welfare maximization. In fact, the optimal paternalistic tax is …

This study provides an ex-ante analysis of the welfare effect from the improvement of border road infrastructure in … local prices of imported rice taking into consideration the simulated price changes effect on household welfare across … rural than urban households. Such policies would likely produce larger welfare gains for poorer households than richer …

We investigate the welfare effect of increasing competition in an anonymous two-sided matching market, where matched … welfare because more agents find themselves in a cooperative relationship. We characterize the conditions for which increasing … competition increases overall welfare. In particular, this is always the case when the incentives for defection are high. …

We investigate the welfare effect of increasing competition in an anonymous two-sided matching market, where matched … welfare because more agents find themselves in a cooperative relationship. We characterize the conditions for which increasing … competition increases overall welfare. In particular, this is always the case when the incentives for defection are high. …

setting the two policy instruments have different welfare effects. For a strong green policy (a severe reduction of the dirty …

This paper develops a framework for evaluating the welfare impact of various interventions designed to increase take … optimization frictions that are greater for needier individuals, suggesting that the poor targeting properties of the interventions … reduce their welfare gains. …