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Strategy-Proofness and the Tops-Only Property
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-04)
A social choice function satisfies the tops-only property if the chosen alternative only depends on each person's report of his most-preferred alternatives on the range of this function. On many domains, strategy-proofness ...
Public Good Provision and the Comparative Statics of Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxation
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-06)
Comparative static properties of the solution to an optimal nonlinear income tax problem are provided for a model in which the government both designs an income tax schedule for redistributive purposes and provides a public ...
Shadow Prices for a Nonconvex Public Technology in the Presence of Private Constant Returns
(Vanderbilt University, 2005)
Diamond and Mirrlees have shown that public sector shadow prices should be set equal to the private producer prices in some circumstances even if taxes are not optimal when the public production technology is convex and ...
Optimal Nonlinear Taxation of Income and Savings without Commitment
(Vanderbilt University, 2008)
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 ...
Hicksian Surplus Measures of Individual Welfare Change When There is Price and Income Uncertainty
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
This article considers measures of individual welfare change for projects that change the state distribution of prices and incomes. For a consumer whose preferences satisfy the expected utility hypothesis, we investigate ...
Strategic Nonlinear Income Tax Competition with Perfect Labor Mobility
(Vanderbilt University, 2008)
The Nash equilibria of a tax-setting game between two governments who can set nonlinear income tax schedules for a perfectly mobile workforce whose members differ in unobserved skill levels are examined. Each government ...
Candidate Stability and Nonbinary Social Choice
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)
A desirable property of a voting procedure is that it be immune to the strategic withdrawal of a cadidate for election. Dutta, Jackson, and Le Breton (Econometrica,2001) have established a number of theorems which demonstrate ...
Generalized Gini Indices of Equality of Opportunity
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)
This article considers the ranking of profiles of opportunity sets on the basis of their equality. A version of the Pigou-Dalton transfer principle that is appropriate for the measurement of opportunity inequality is ...
Measurement Theory and the Foundations of Utilitarianism
(Vanderbilt University, 2005)
This article reconsiders the Harsanyi-Sen debate concerning whether Harsanyi is justified in interpreting his Aggregation and Impartial Observer Theorems as providing axiomatizations of utilitarianism. Sen's criticism and ...
Comparative Statics of Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxation in the Presence of a Publicly Provided Input
(Vanderbilt University, 2009)
Comparative static properties of the solution to an optimal nonlinear income tax problem are provided for a model in which the government both designs a redistributive income tax schedule and provides a public input into ...