Previous estimates of childhood lead poisoning prevention benefits have quantified the present value of some health benefits, but not the costs of lead paint hazard control or the benefits associated with housing and energy markets. Because older housing with lead paint constitutes the main...

The significance of population monotonicity and welfare bounds is well-recognized in the fair division literature. We characterize population monotonic and incentive compatible mechanisms which allocate the goods efficiently and respect a welfare lower bound chosen in the fair allocation problem...

The intent of the patent system is to encourage innovation by granting the innovator exclusive rights to a discovery for a limited period of time: with monopoly power, the innovator can recover the costs of creating the innovation which otherwise might not have existed. And, over time, the...

We study multivariate prevention decisions by disentangling early and late prevention. We show how the modularity of prevention and several measures of prevention efficiency interact with the agent’s risk attitude. We derive comparative statics with respect to impatience, loss severity, and...

The paper analyses the food and water consumption, excessive consumption, consumption taxes like fat tax and brings out the business behaviour of tickling food consumption. In addition to taxing and regulating the excessive consumption & the tickling behaviour, it explores the preventive best...

El objetivo del artículo Applied General-Equilibrium Models of Taxation and International Trade: An Introduction and Survey" (Shoven & Whalley,1984) es mostrar cómo el esquema walrasiano de equilibrio general puede convertirse en un poderoso instrumento para el análisis de política mediante...

El documento presenta una propuesta de medición de la gestión del sector público en Colombia para el período 2002 - 2010. La metodología de medición es construida a partir de una discusión teórica en la cual se especifica una primera frontera definida a partir de los conceptos de...

Resumen: La difusión y penetración de medidas de uso eficiente de energía tienen impactos positivos tanto sobre la competitividad como sobre las condiciones de seguridad de las firmas. Empero, tales impactos son difíciles de alcanzar en la práctica debido a la presencia de barreras que...

En este artículo se presenta un concepto alternativo de eficiencia económica de carácter dinámico para superar el concepto estático de origen paretiano hasta ahora dominante. Tras explicar el proceso de formación del concepto paretiano se propone reintroducir la dimensión dinámica de la...

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change requests signatory countries to specify voluntary caps on their greenhouse gas emissions. The caps stated by the end of 2021 imply percentage emission reductions that vary widely across countries. This paper uses globally representative data from the Global...