efficiency and equity of the final outcome. Furthermore, these tendencies are stronger when the two players have conflicting …

efficiency-equality trade-off and implement a cross-country comparison between France and Germany. In particular, we show that …

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective …

According to principal-agent theory, a share contract strikes an optimal balance between risk-sharing and incentive … provision when it is difficult to gauge the agent's contribution. This theory predicts that the size of the share should vary …

considerations to explain the development or sustainability of these transfers. Such is the implicit ambition of efficiency theories … explained by pure efficiency motives, but less than what would be predicted under the extended insurance hypothesis. One …

theory. The basic dimensions of deprivation are given more weight than the non-basic dimensions of deprivation. We construct …