Search Results - subject:"Scitovsky"

Schulz, Karl; Tsyvinski, Aleh; Werquin, Nicolas - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 18 (2023) 4, pp. 1665-1710

Economic disruptions generally create winners and losers. The compensation problem consists of designing a reform of the existing income tax system that offsets the welfare losses of the latter by redistributing the gains of the former. We derive a formula for the compensating tax reform and its...

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Generalized Compensation Principle

Schulz, Karl; Tsyvinski, Aleh; Werquin, Nicolas - 2022

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Generalized compensation principle

Schulz, Karl; Tsyvinski, Aleh; Werquin, Nicolas - 2022

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Generalized compensation principle

Tsyvinski, Aleh; Werquin, Nicolas - 2019

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Generalized Compensation Principle

Tsyvinski, Aleh - 2017

We generalize the classic concept of compensating variation and the welfare compensation principle to a general equilibrium environment with distortionary taxes. We show that the problem of designing a tax reform that compensates the welfare gains and losses induced by an economic disruption can...

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Generalized compensation principle

Tsyvinski, Aleh; Werquin, Nicolas - 2017

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Generalized Compensation Principle

Tsyvinski, Aleh - 2017

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Approaches to well-being, use of psychology and paternalism in economics

Collewet, Marion - 2014

position: Scitovsky's Joyless Economy, happiness economics, and the constitutional approach to happiness in economics. It shows …

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Scitovsky, behavioural economics, and beyond

Pugno, Maurizio - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 8 (2014) 2014-24, pp. 1-29

Scitovsky is known as a forerunner of behavioural economics simply because he drew heavily on psychology and claimed … that people's choices may be "joyless" (Scitovsky, The joyless economy, 1976). However, a careful reformulation of his … new lines of inquiry from an original and different perspective. These insights of Scitovsky regard the following aspects …

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Approaches to well-being, use of psychology and paternalism in economics

Collewet, Marion - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 8 (2014) 2014-32, pp. 1-25

insights from psychology to support their positions: Scitovsky's Joyless Economy, happiness economics, and the constitutional …

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