Search
Now showing items 21-25 of 25
The Impact of Changing Skill Levels on Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxes
(Vanderbilt University, 2007)
The impact of changing an individual's skill level on the solution to a finite population version of the Mirrlees optimal nonlinear income tax problem with quasilinear-in-leisure preferences is investigated. It is shown ...
Social Choice: Recent Developments
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
Abstract: In the past quarter century, there has been a dramatic shift of focus in social choice theory, with structured sets of alternatives and restricted domains of the sort encountered in economic problems coming to ...
John Charles Harsanyi
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
Abstract: This article provides an overview of the main events in the life of John Harsanyi and a summary of his research on decision-theoretic foundations for utilitarianism, cooperative bargaining theory, games of ...
Arrovian Social Choice Theory on Economic Domains
(Vanderbilt University, 2002)
This article surveys the literature that investigates the consistency of Arrow's social choice axioms when his unrestricted domain assumptions are replaced by domain conditions that incorporate the restrictions on agendas ...
Optimal Nonlinear Taxation of Income and Savingsin a Two Class Economy
(Vanderbilt University, 2005)
Optimal nonlinear taxation of income and savings is considered in a two-period model with two individuals who have additively separable preferences and who only differ in their skill levels. When the government can commit ...