The transfer paradox describes the situation in which transfers of initial endowments within competitive market make the donor better off and (or) the recipient worse off. Advantageous redistribution, strong transfer paradox, and Chichilnisky paradox are the three cases of the transfer paradox...

With heterogeneity of risk aversion, a representative agent does not exist so both individuals' and aggregate risk premium cannot be expressed by relative/absolute risk aversion. This paper suggests a new way to calculate the risk premium with market contingent-claim prices without the...

We propose generalized versions of strong equity and Pigou-Dalton transfer principle. We study the existence and the real valued representation of social welfare relations satisfying these two generalized equity principles. Our results characterize the restrictions on one period utility domains...

This paper develops a game theoretic model of corruption in tax assessments. Bureaucrats are assumed to be heterogeneous in the level of corruption and the favors they offer to the public. Our first result establishes the optimal amount of bribe public offers to the bureaucrat in the simplified...

This paper considers a one-sector economic growth model with several infinitely - lived heterogeneous households, who differ both in the discount factors as well as preferences over consumption. Unlike the extreme form of borrowing constraint observed in the classical Ramsey model, recently...

This paper examines the problem of aggregating infinite utility streams with a social welfare function that respects the Hammond Equity and Weak Pareto Axioms. The paper provides a complete characterization of domains (of the one period utilities) on which such an aggregation is possible. A...

We consider effects of quota or “affirmative action” for women at work-places on the societal outcomes. A simple model of household decision making with production and endogenously determined female power is studied. We show that even under standard economic modeling specifications, as a...

This paper studies the nature of social welfare orders on infinite utility streams, satisfying the efficiency principle known as Monotonicity and the consequentialist equity principle known as Strong Equity. It provides a complete characterization of domain sets for which there exists such a...

This paper studies the nature of social welfare orders on infinite utility streams, satisfying the consequentialist equity principles known as Hammond Equity and Pigou-Dalton transfer principle. The first result shows that every social welfare order satisfying Hammond Equity and the Strong...

We investigate the convergence property of the capital stock sequence in Ramsey equilibria with limited borrowing by the households. In our model, at the beginning of each period, households are allowed to borrow against their end of the period wage income. Under this assumption the capital...