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Fairness and the unselfish demand for redistribution by taxpayers and welfare recipients

Sabatini, Fabio; Ventura, Marco; Yamamura, Eiji; … - 2017

We illustrate how the desire to live in a fair society that rewards individual effort and hard work triggers an unselfish though rational demand for redistribution. This leads the well off to prefer higher taxes and the poor to reject extreme progressivity. We then provide evidence of these...

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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

considerations to explain the development or sustainability of these transfers. Such is the implicit ambition of efficiency theories … of the Welfare State. However, while these theories may be suited for explaining the development of public insurance or … explained by pure efficiency motives, but less than what would be predicted under the extended insurance hypothesis. One …

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Classification of Network Formation Models

Möbert, Jochen - Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2006

welfare properties. Here, we concentrate on welfare criteria and define properties of utility function which are causal for …

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The dark side of friendship: envy

Cobo-Reyes, Ramón; Jiménez, Natalia - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2007

This paper studies the e¤ect of social relations on the convergence to the e¢ cient equilibrium in a 2x2 coordination game. We employ a 2x2 factorial design in which we explore two di¤erent games with asymmetric payo¤s and two matching protocols: .friends.versus .strangers.. In the .rst game...

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Trucks, triangles and a quiet life: Welfare implications of the European trucks cartel

Beyer, Christian; Kottmann, Elke; von Blanckenburg, … - 2018

trucks cartel (1997-2011). Overall, we estimate a net welfare loss of approximately €0.7 bn. and an overcharge below 1% (€1 …

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Trucks, triangles and a quiet life : welfare implications of the European trucks cartel

Beyer, Christian; Kottmann, Elke; Blanckenburg, … - 2018

trucks cartel (1997-2011). Overall, we estimate a net welfare loss of approximately €0.7 bn. and an overcharge below 1% (€1 …

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Математическая модель экономической системы с распределенными правами собственности

Kolesnik, Georgiy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

property rights allocation on the economic efficiency of the management strategies is studied. …

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The Linkages Between Productivity and Social Progress: An Introduction and Overview

Banting, Keith; Sharpe, Andrew; St-Hilaire, France - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social...

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Sustainability and the problem of consumption

Witt, Ulrich - 2011

individual welfare would be directly affected by policy measures designed to make consumption sustainable. Such policy measures … are likely to also trigger indirect welfare losses by negative employment effects. The policy debate therefore needs to … pay attention to both direct and indirect welfare effects. As a concrete proposal a redesign of consumption taxes is …

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The dynamics of consumer behavior and the transition to sustainable consumption patterns

Witt, Ulrich - 2011

Strong growth in disposable income has driven, and is still driving, consumption to unprecedented, but not sustainable levels. To explain the dynamic interplay of needs, need satisfaction, and innovation underlying that growth a behavioral theory of consumption is suggested and discussed with...

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