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It is known that the incompleteness of asset markets causes inefficiency in almost every equilibrium. Yet unexplored is the ”size” of this inefficiency. The size of a Pareto improvement is the total willingness to pay for it, out of current consumption. Inefficiency is the maximum size of...
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Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation is defined relative to a specific social welfare function. I first show that under the standard...
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The paper examines the problem of aggregating infinite utility streams with a social welfare function which respects the Anonymity and Weak Pareto Axioms. It provides a complete characterization of domains (of the one period utilities) on which such an aggregation is possible. A social welfare...
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order to apply pricing tools of financial mathematics, one needs to isolate a Gaussian risk factor. A conventional model for … Gaussian variable appears. Earlier work investigated this temperature risk in dfferent locations and showed that neither … accurate fitting procedure of localised temperature risk process by achieving excellent normal risk factors. …
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socially optimal, the optimal policy scheme requires a nonlinear output subsidy which serves to discriminate between exiting …
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facilitate intergenerational risk-sharing. In addition to the primary benefit of improved time diversification, this form of risk … results of the paper is that better intergenerational risk-sharing does not reduce the risk born by each generation. Rather …
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There is a general presumption that social preferences can be ignored if markets are competitive. Market experiments (Smith 1962) and recent theoretical results (Dufwenberg et al. 2008) suggest that competition forces people to behave as if they were purely self-interested. We qualify this view....
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There is a general presumption that social preferences can be ignored if markets are competitive. Market experiments (Smith 1962) and recent theoretical results (Dufwenberg et al. 2008) suggest that competition forces people to behave as if they were purely self-interested. We qualify this view....
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In a model with ex-ante homogenous households, earnings risk and a general earnings function, we derive the optimal … (overinvestment) in education due to risk. Education policy unambiguously allows for more social insurance if education is a risky … activity. However, if education hedges against labor market risk, optimal tax rates could be lower than without education …
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