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Modified Ramsey Discounting for Climate Change
Tol, Richard S. J. - 2015
modified Ramsey rule is simpler and identical to regional equity weights. I apply the modified Ramsey rules to estimates of the …
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On Equity and Public Pricing in Developing Countries
Mohn, Klaus - 1994
With address to developing countries, this paper derives some formulae for the optimal price structure for publicly provided private goods. A general equilibrium model is examined, which makes it possible to incorporate features like distributional social objectives and public profit constraints...
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Voting for compromises: Alternative voting methods in polarized societies
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Buckenmaier, Johannes - 2021
's lives and contribute to social instability. Even if political compromises based on social conventions as equity or economic … methods (Approval Voting and Borda Count) reduce the support for egoistic options and favor equity and efficiency, avoiding … extreme outcomes. Those methods differ in whether they favor equity or efficiency when the latter benefits a majority. Our …
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Gathering Support for Green Tax Reform: Evidence from German Household Surveys
van der Ploeg, Rick; Rezai, Armon; Tovar, Miguel - 2021
support can be mustered without hurting equity too much. We also investigate the effects of Germany meeting its legal target …
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Equal opportunity and poverty reduction: how aid should be allocated?
Guillaumont, Patrick; Nguyen-Van, Phu; Pham, Thi Kim Cuong - 2018
This paper proposes a model of aid allocation which aims to equalize the opportunity between recipient countries to reduce the poverty. The model takes into account the natural growth deviation which is defined by the gap between the growth rate required to reach a development goal and the...
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A survey of inclusive growth policy
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk; Wood, Jacob - In: Economies 7 (2019) 3, pp. 1-18
Background: Since the latter part of the 20th Century, countries have been particularly challenged by the trade-off that exists between delivering generous welfare provisions and strong economic growth. Such dynamics have stimulated a need to better understand the causes of income inequality so...
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On Equity and Public Pricing in Developing Countries
Mohn, Klaus - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1994
With address to developing countries, this paper derives some formulae for the optimal price structure for publicly provided private goods. A general equilibrium model is examined, which makes it possible to incorporate features like distributional social objectives and public profit constraints...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980757
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Resolving Social Issues in a Merger: A Fair-Division Approach
Brams, S.J.; Kulikov, M.S. - C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Department of … - 1998
One of the most elusive ingredients in the success of a deal is what deal makers euphemistically refer to as "Social issues" - how power, position, and status will be allocated among the merging companies' executives. A failure to resolve these issues often leads to the destruction of...
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Consumption Taxes and Redistribution
Correia, Isabel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
It is relatively well known that the introduction of consumption taxation as an alternative in the tax code, and as the main source of government revenues, leads to a more efficient tax system. However the conventional wisdom is that the change from the actual tax code, based on taxation of...
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Jon Elster und das Problem lokaler Gerechtigkeit
Pies, Ingo; Viebranz, Jörg - 2007
Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Arbeiten von Jon Elster zum Problem lokaler Gerechtigkeit. Das Thema dieser Arbeiten sind Rationierungsentscheidungen. Es geht um die Allokation und Distribution knapper Zuteilungsgüter, also etwa um die Vergabe von Kindergarten- oder Studienplätzen, die Zuweisung...
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