This paper characterises the dynamic behaviour of a growing economy where individuals keep up with the Joneses' and face uninsurable labour income risk. Idiosyncratic uncertainty about future labour income reduces the marginal propensity to consume out of financial wealth and raises the...

In this paper, we show that the third inverse stochastic dominances introduced by Muliere and Scarsini (1989) is nicely connected with the Yaari's dual model. We show especially that the third inverse stochastic dominance is closely linked with the non-negativity of third derivative of the...

In a seminal paper, Kolm [14] introduces the principle diminishing transfer. This principle requires that a transfert from an individual with income x to one with income x - D(D 0) has a greater impact on social welfare the lower x is. On the other hand Mehran [15] and Kakwani [11] introduced...