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Opportunity analysis of newborn screening programs

HERRERO, Carmen; MORENO-TERNERO, Juan D. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2007

There exist congenital diseases that reduce newborns' potential opportunities. This reduction is sometimes alleviated …

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Opportunities as chances: maximising the probability that everybody succeeds

Marco, Mariotti; Roberto, Veneziani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Opportunities in society are commonly interpreted as `chances of success'. Within this interpretation, should … opportunities be equalised? We show that a liberal principle of justice and a limited principle of social rationality imply that …

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On compensation schemes for data sharing within the european REACH legislation

Béal, Sylvain; Deschamps, Marc - Centre de Recherche sur les Stratégies Économiques … - 2014

). For such problems, compensation schemes specify how the data owners should be compensated by the agents in needs of data …. On the class of data games, the Core, the Nucleolus and the Shapley value provide relevant compensation schemes. We … provide three comparable axiomatic characterizations of the set of all (additive) compensation schemes belonging to the Core …

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Optimal Income Taxation and Public Good Provision in a Two-Class Economy

Bierbrauer, Felix - 2006

This paper combines the problem of optimal income taxation with the free-rider problem in public good provision. There are two groups of individuals with private information on their earning ability and their valuation of a public good. Adjustments of the transfer system are needed to discourage...

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Optimal income taxation and public good provision in a two-class economy

Bierbrauer, Felix - 2005

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Distortionary taxation and the free-rider problem

Bierbrauer, Felix - 2006

This paper derives a version of the Samuelson rule, which takes not only the marginal costs of public funds into account but also the desirability of preference revelation. Under a linear income tax more able individuals suffer from a larger utility loss if taxes are raised to cover the cost of...

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Collectively incentive compatible tax systems

Bierbrauer, Felix - 2006

This paper assumes that individuals possess private information both about their abilities and about their valuation of a public good. Individuals can undertake collective actions on order to manipulate the tax system and the decision on public good provision. Consequently, an implementable...

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Optimal income taxation and public goods provision in a large economy with aggregate uncertainty

Bierbrauer, Felix - 2009

We study a large economy model in which individuals have private information about their productive abilities and their preferences. Moreover, there is aggregate uncertainty so that the social benefits from taxation and public goods provision are a priori unknown. The analysis is based on a...

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Optimal income taxation, public goods provision and robust mechanism design

Bierbrauer, Felix - 2008

This paper extends the model of optimal income taxation due to Mirrlees (1971) and includes private information on public goods preferences. A mechanism design approach is used to establish the following result: If policies are required to be robustly implementable in the sense of Bergemann and...

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A unified approach to the revelation of public goods preferences and to optimal income taxation

Bierbrauer, Felix - 2008

We study a large economy model in which individuals have private information about their productive abilities and their preferences for public goods. A mechanism design approach is used to characterize implementable tax and expenditure policies. A robustness requirement in the sense of Bergemann...

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