While various policy instruments have attempted to raise environmental concerns in the past decades, it is unclear if these concerns are revealed in the consumer choices of our daily life. In this study, we investigate whether environmental concerns drive the choices of modes of transport...

When judging a population’s health to determine disability-adjusted life years, disability weight is a tool for measuring the severity of disability caused by a disease. However, previous studies have pointed out that surveys targeting ordinary citizens produce unclear disability weight...

In this paper, we study optimal public good provision with congestion and user fees to exclude some agents under lump-sum tax/transfer, constrained by the condition of reduction of envy. We adopt the λ envy-free constraint proposed by Diamantaras and Thomson(1990), and employ the exclusion...

As a basic step, in this study we propose a model to describe the snatch incident on residential streets. This model is based on one of the methodologies of social science and the Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design’s concept. The objective variable is the feasibility of snatch and...

This paper studies the optimal nonlinear income tax schedule at symmetric equilibria at which two symmetric states (or tax authorities) compete to attract more taxpayers from the other state. It differs from the existing literature in the sense that taxpayers' wages are endogenously determined...

This paper examines the optimal mixed taxation of polluting goods and subsidies for self-protection under nonlinear income tax. The novel contribution of this paper is to take disaster risk into account, the probability which is determined by the total amount of polluting goods consumed by all...

We examine optimal taxation and public good provision by a government which takes reduction of envy into consideration as one of the constraints. We adopt the notion of extended envy-freeness proposed by Diamantaras and Thomson (1990), called λ-equitability. We derive the modified Samuelson...

In this paper, we analyze the relationships among oil prices, clean energy stock prices, and technology stock prices, endogenously controlling for structural changes in the market. To this end, we apply Markov-switching vector autoregressive models to the economic system consisting of oil...