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Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers
Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006
This chapter examines the role of altruistic motives in the economic analysis of public social transfers, both from a positive and from a normative point of view. The positive question is to know whether we can fully neglect altruistic considerations to explain the development or sustainability...
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Social Preferences and Skill Segregation
Cabrales, Antonio; Calvo-Armengol, Antoni - 2003
This paper shows that models where preferences of individuals depend not only on their allocations, but also on the well-being of other persons, can produce both large and testable effects. We study the allocation of workers with heterogeneous productivities to firms. We show that even small...
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Why praise inequality? : public good provision, income distribution and social welfare
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009
We consider a two-person Cournot game of voluntary contributions to a public good with identical individual preferences, and examine equilibrium aggregate welfare under a separable, symmetric and concave social welfare function. Assuming the public good is pure, Itaya, de Meza and Myles (Econ....
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Why Praise Inequality? Public Good Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2011
We consider a two-person Cournot game of voluntary contributions to a public good with identical individual preferences, and examine equilibrium aggregate welfare under a separable, symmetric and concave social welfare function. Assuming the public good is pure, Itaya, de Meza and Myles (Econ....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756257
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Violent conflict exposure in Nigeria and economic welfare
Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2019
Several papers have attempted to estimate and document the impact of conflict on several education, health and … socioeconomic outcomes. One lesson from the past research is the heterogeneity in the effect of violent conflict across and within … countries. In this paper we attempt to estimate the casual impact of conflict in Nigeria on welfare related outcomes. The 2009 …
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Manipulation of social choice functions under incomplete information
Gori, Michele - In: Games and economic behavior 129 (2021), pp. 350-369
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Surfing Incognito : Welfare Effects of Anonymous Shopping
Lagerlöf, Johan N. M. - 2019
This paper studies consumers' incentives to hide their purchase histories when the seller's prices depend on previous behavior. Through distinct channels, hiding both hinders and facilitates trade. Indeed, the social optimum involves hiding to some extent, yet not fully. Two opposing effects...
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Uncertainty, Arbitrage and Intra-Industry Trade
Dasgupta, Sudipto; Ray, Tridip; Wong, Kit Pong - 2002
When firms in the same industry located in different regions or countries experience shocks to production costs in their respective industries that are imperfectly correlated, arbitrage opportunities automatically lead to trade. Trade can either stabilize or destabilize the price faced by...
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Additive-Belief-Based Preferences
Dillenberger, David; Raymond, Collin - 2020
We introduce a new class of preferences — which we call additive-belief-based (ABB) —that captures a general and yet tractable approach to belief-based utility, and that encompasses many popular models in the behavioral literature. We show that the general class of ABB preferences and two...
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Resolute Choice in Interaction : A Welfare Comparison
Lotito, Gianna - 2022
In this paper we extend the model of Resolute Choice to a situation of interaction and compare it with the Sophisticated-subgame perfect equilibrium and the Myopic Choice models in terms of welfare implications. The framework adopted is a non-cooperative game in which two players with different...
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