Higher tax and less work: reverse "Keep up with the Joneses" and rising inequality [0.03%]
提高税收减少工作：“跟上琼斯先生”和不断上升的不平等现象
Felix FitzRoy,Jim Jin,Michael Nolan
Felix FitzRoy
To counteract excessive effort due to relative income comparison among identical agents, the literature suggests a tax response equal to the negative externality. Assuming a general income distribution, we show that an optimal tax must be h...
Claudio Bonilla,Marcos Vergara
Claudio Bonilla
We study precautionary saving in a two-period model that allows for nonlinear risks and nonseparable preferences. Permitting nonlinear risk effects is important because they are common in the developing world or when worldwide shocks hit ec...
Kangoh Lee
Kangoh Lee
Measures reduce health risk but limit economic activities and affect disproportionately the contact-intensive sectors whose economic activities involve more person-to-person interactions. The analysis shows that the size of the contact-inte...
Michèle Breton,Lucia Sbragia
Michèle Breton
In this paper we consider a differentiated oligopoly with two product varieties that are supplied by two groups of firms. After computing the Cournot solution of the game, we study its sensitivity to different sources of competition, namely...
Technological change, „dual economy“ theory and the problem of development [0.03%]
技术变革、“二元经济”理论与发展问题
Peter F. M. McLoughlin
Peter F. M. McLoughlin
Irina Suleymanova; Christian Wey
Irina Suleymanova; Christian Wey
Sequential bargaining, external effects of agreement, and public intervention [0.03%]
顺序讨价还价、协议的外部效应与公共干预
Margrethe Aanesen
Margrethe Aanesen
Serkan Kucuksenel
Serkan Kucuksenel
Ken-ichi Hirose; Shinsuke Ikeda
Ken-ichi Hirose; Shinsuke Ikeda
A comparison of cardinal tournaments and piece rate contracts with liquidity constrained agents [0.03%]
流动性受限代理人的基数锦标赛与计件合同的比较
Kosmas Marinakis; Theofanis Tsoulouhas
Kosmas Marinakis; Theofanis Tsoulouhas