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...

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...