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Funding a New Bridge in Rural Vietnam: A field experiment on conditional cooperation and default contributions
(2011-05)
The ability to provide public goods is essential for economic and social development, yet there is very limited empirical evidence regarding contributions to a real local public good in developing countries. This paper ...
Om nationalekonomisk imperialism och idéutveckling
(2006)
Nationalekonomiska metoder och modeller tillämpas inom de mest skiftande områden
som kriminalitet, barnuppfostran och drogmissbruk. Ett skäl till ämnets framgång är dess användning av matematik. Nationalekonomins formalisering ...
A Note on the Risk Behavior and Death of Homo Economicus
(2006)
Recent papers by Cox and Sadiraj (2006) and Rubinstein (2006) have pointed out that expected utility theory is more general than has sometimes been acknowledged, and can hence not be refuted as easily by means of experiments. ...
Paternalism against Veblen: Optimal Taxation and Non-Respected Preferences for Social Comparisons
(2014-11)
This paper deals with optimal income taxation and relative consumption under a welfarist government that fully respects people’s preferences and a paternalist government that does not share the consumer preference for ...
Inequality Aversion, Externalities, and Pareto-Efficient Income taxation
(2020-05)
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This paper analyzes Pareto-efficient marginal income taxation taking into account externalities induced through individual inequality aversion, meaning that people have preferences for equality. In doing so, we ...
When Samuelson met Veblen abroad: National and global public good provision when social comparisons matter
(2012-09)
This paper derives Pareto efficient policy rules for the provision of national as well as global public goods in a two-country world, where each individual cares about relative consumption within as well as between countries. ...
Environmental Policy when Peoples Preferences are Inconsistent, Non-Welfaristic, or simply Not Developed
(2001)
This paper discusses how a benevolent policy maker should act based on some, possibly non-welfaristic,ethical principle in cases where peoples preferences are not perfectly informed,consistent and fully developed with ...
Charity, Status, and Optimal Taxation: Welfarist and Paternalist Approaches
(2019-04)
This paper deals with tax policy responses to charitable giving, defined in terms of voluntary contributions to a public good, to which the government also contributes through public revenue; the set of tax instruments ...
Fairness Concerns in Environmental Economics - Do They Really Matter and If So How?
(2009-11-16)
Are fairness concerns of relevance to environmental economics and, if so, are they sufficiently
structured to improve analysis in this field? On both of these questions, we answer in the
affirmative, arguing that people’s ...
Anonymity, reciprocity, and conformity: Evidence from voluntary contributions to a national park in Costa Rica
(Springer, 2008)
We investigate the role of anonymity, reciprocity, and conformity for voluntary contributions, based on a natural field experiment conducted at a national park in Costa Rica. Contributions made in public in front of the ...