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On Environmental Taxation Under Uncertainty.
Aronsson, T.; Blomquist, S. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999
response to this tax depends on (i) the attitudes towards risk and (ii) how other policy instruments affect the demand for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005779779
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A Simple Measure of Risk Aversion in the Large and an Application.
Chander, P. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2000
We introduce a simple measure of risk aversion in the large. Besides satisfying properties which are conceptually … analogous to the usual properties of the Arrow-Pratt measure, the index of risk aversion in the large leads to a stronger … concept of decreasing risk aversion, which necessarily imp lies decreasing absolute risk aversion but not necessarily non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634228
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Optimal Taxation and Risk-Sharing Arrangements in an Economic Federation
Aronsson, Thomas; Wikström, Magnus - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2001
This paper analyzes optimal taxation and risk-sharing arrangements in an economy with two levels of government. Both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005424044
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Optimal fiscal policy with recursive preferences
Karantounias, Anastasios - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - 2013
I study the implications of recursive utility for the design of optimal fiscal policy. I find that the standard policy prescriptions of the dynamic Ramsey literature are dramatically altered. Labor tax volatility is optimal and can be quantitatively substantial. Furthermore, labor taxes are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269075
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A simple measure of risk aversion in the large and an application.
CHANDER, Parkash - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2000
We introduce a simple measure of risk aversion in the large. Besides satisfying properties which are conceptually … analogous to the usual properties of the Arrow-Pratt measure, the index of risk aversion in the large leads to a stronger … concept of decreasing risk aversion, which necessarily implies decreasing absolute risk aversion but not necessarily non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008159
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Unemployment Insurance in Theory and Practice.
Holmlund, B. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1997
A Hallmark of modern labor conomics is the close interplay between the development of theory, data sources and econometric testing. The evolution of the economic analysis of unemployment insurance provides a good illustration. New Theoretical approaches, in particular job-search theory; have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005779760
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Carrots and sticks for new technology: Abating greenhouse gas emissions in a heterogeneous and uncertain world
Robalino, David; Lempert, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
Many governments use technology incentives as an important component of their greenhouse gas abatement strategies. These “carrots” are intended to encourage the initial diffusion of new, greenhouse-gas-emissions-reducing technologies, in contrast to carbon taxes and emissions trading which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835929
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Economic Policy in Health Care: Sickness Absence and Pharmaceutical Cost
Granlund, David - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2007
This thesis consists of a summary and four papers. The first two concerns health care and sickness absence, and the last two pharmaceutical costs and prices. <p> Paper [I] presents an economic federation model which resembles the situation in, for example, Sweden. In the model the state governments...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005197987
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Symposium - Gambling, Prediction Markets and Public Policy
Paton, David; Siegel, Donald S.; Williams, Leighton Vaughan - In: Southern Economic Journal (2010) 4, pp. 878-883
these activities. Some critical research questions concern the efficiency of such markets, heterogeneity in risk attitudes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568023
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The Standard Deviation of Life-Length, Retirement Incentives, and Optimal Pension Design
Aronsson, Thomas; Blomquist, Sören - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010
of years spent in retirement” are characterized by constant or decreasing absolute risk aversion. A similar result …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008673562