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Social welfare consequences of the radius of employment decency

Ndamsa, Thomas Dickson; Njang, Gladys; Baye, Francis Menjo - In: Athens journal of business & economics : AJBE 6 (2020) 3, pp. 211-238

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An intergenerational issue : the equity issues due to Public-Private Partnerships : the critical aspect of the Social Discount Rate choice for future generations

Al Yaqoobi, Abeer; Ausloos, Marcel - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-26

This paper investigates the impact of Social Discount Rate (SDR) choice on intergenerational equity issues caused by Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) projects. Indeed, more PPPs mean more debt being accumulated for future generations leading to a fiscal deficit crisis. The paper draws on how...

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The distributional impacts of fiscal policy : the case of the Philippines

Son, Hyun H. - 2022

The distributional impacts of fiscal policies are instrumental in reducing inequality in countries like the Philippines, where inequality has been persistently high. This paper assesses how equitable various taxes and transfers in the Philippines are by deriving the elasticities of Atkinson and...

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Target-group and quality decisions of inequity-averse entrepreneurs

Burchhardt, Steffen; Starke, Christoph - 2010

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Isotone classes of social choice functions with binary range

Basile, Achille; Bhaskara Rao, K. P. S.; De Simone, Anna; … - In: Games 15 (2024) 6, pp. 1-18

Recently, it has been shown that the characterizations of different classes of non-manipulable social choice functions with binary range can be reduced to a common functional form. In the present paper, we investigate the reasons why this happens. We show that all the classes considered share a...

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Revealing the preferences of social financiers

Starke, Christoph; Burchhardt, Steffen - 2014

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So how to make group decisions? : arrow's impossibility theorem 70 years after

Nguyen, Hung T.; Kosheleva, Olga; Kreinovich, Vladik - In: Asian journal of economics and banking : AJEB 5 (2021) 3, pp. 226-233

voting schemes. Design/methodology/approach - In this paper we analyze this problem from the viewpoint of decision theory …, the basic theory underlying all our activities – including economic ones. Findings - We show how from the first …-principles decision theory, we can extract explicit recommendations for group decision making. Originality/value - Most of the resulting …

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Social choice using moral metrics

Halpern, Kenneth - In: Asian journal of economics and banking : AJEB 5 (2021) 3, pp. 255-271

Purpose - This paper aims to develop a geometry of moral systems. Existing social choice mechanisms predominantly employ simple structures, such as rankings. A mathematical metric among moral systems allows us to represent complex sets of views in a multidimensional geometry. Such a metric can...

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Bergson-Wohlfahrtsfunktion und normative Ökonomie

Giersch, Thorsten - 1993

Zentraler Gegenstand der Wohlfahrtsökonomie ist die Untersuchung geeigneter Kriterien für die Bewertung ökonomischer Zustände nach dem Maßstab von «besser» oder «schlechter». Die Wohlfahrtsökonomie steht damit im Spannungsfeld der in jüngerer Zeit wieder verstärkt diskutierten...

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Time-consistent fair social choice

Miyagishima, Kaname - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 18 (2023) 3, pp. 941-964

In this paper, we study intertemporal social welfare evaluations when agents have heterogeneous preferences that are interpersonally noncomparable. We first show that even if all agents share the same preferences, there is a conflict between the axioms of Pareto principle, time consistency, and...

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