A general model of judgment aggregation is presented in which judgments on propositions are not binary but come in degrees. The primitives of the model are a set of propositions, an entailment relation, and a “triangular norm” which establishes a lower bound on the degree to which a...

There is growing international interest in a Canadian-style points system for selecting economic immigrants. Although existing points systems are influenced by the human capital literature, the findings have traditionally been incorporated in an ad hoc way. This paper explores a formal method...

This paper studies the redistribution effect of personal income tax in Pakistan. We decompose the overall tax system in order to evaluate the contribution of rate, allowances, deductions, exemptions and credits. The structure given in Income Tax Ordinance 2001 is applied to gross household...

To what extent are stakeholders’ land use decisions influenced by heterogeneous land-use preferences, spatial externalities, and heterogeneous suitability features? To explore this issue we develop and calibrate a heterogeneous-agent portfolio-theory model to the 1940-1993 Indiana land-use...

It is well known that many social decision procedures are manipulable through strategic behaviour. Typically, the decision procedures considered in the literature are social choice correspondences. In this paper we investigate the problem of constructing a social welfare function that is...

This paper studies the impact of changes in the external balance of a developing economy (Pakistan). We explain that the economic growth achieved during the past decade is highly dependent on the improvements in external balance. Between 2001 and 2007 Pakistan has benefited from, an increase in...

The scope of this paper is to investigate the impact of financial incentives on the retirement decision of private sector workers in Austria.How do financial incentives embedded in the Austrian pension system impact individual retirement behavior? We are using a unique dataset of individual...

Purpose : The purpose of the paper is to outline the global financial and economic crisis that began in 2007, together with the macroeconomic policy changes that were put in place as a result. The content is partly descriptive and partly analytical. Design : The content is partly descriptive and...

This work investigates whether traders’ state dependant expectations biases can account for anomalous country fund price movements for a seven year period spanning the 2007-08 banking crises. We provide a multiple agent asset-pricing model that includes both rational traders and traders who...

The Burren landscape which stands out as one of the most magnificent managed landscapes in all of Europe has recently come under threat due to a shift in farm management practices. As a result of evolving market trends and social structures, traditional farming methods are being replaced by more...