This paper presents an Arrow-type result which can be simply demonstrated to hold within the standard domain of welfare economics: in the (m×n) Edgeworth Box, a best allocation must assign all goods to a single individual. Allowing the Social Welfare Function to take account of envy-freeness,...

We examine the estimation of the memory parameter d of I(d) series, by fitting an auto-regressive AR(k) representation where k approaches infinity simultaneously with the observed series length n. Under some conditions on the growth of k with respect to n, and on the short memory component of...

Timing-independence implies that individuals are indifferent between a sequential choice problem and a planned choice problem which are strategically equivalent except for the timing of resolution of the uncertainty. This paper reports an experiment in which we investigate whether the timing of...