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. We test whether a democratic context influences the social preferences of decision makers in terms of efficiency …, altruism and concern for inequality. We find that decision makers who are selected democratically are generally more efficiency … distribution sometime conflict, efficiency is no higher with democratic leaders, although payoffs are more equal. We interpret our …
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In this paper, we study intertemporal social welfare evaluations when agents have heterogeneous preferences that are interpersonally noncomparable. We first show that even if all agents share the same preferences, there is a conflict between the axioms of Pareto principle, time consistency, and...
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-to-poorer transfers that preserve the overall efficiency of the distribution. This transfer principle - together with the basic axioms of …
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In this paper, we propose a comprehensive Public Choice framework to identify and categorize barriers to efficient public climate adaptation. Specifically, we distinguish three dimensions of public adaptation: extent, structure (form and timing) and organisation (vertical and horizontal). Within...
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Committee voting has mostly been investigated from the perspective of the standard Baron-Ferejohn model of bargaining over the division of a pie, in which bargaining ends as soon as the committee reaches an agreement. In standing committees, however, existing agreements can be amended. This...
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