This paper considers social choice theory without the Pareto principle. We revisit the trade-off theorem developed by Campbell and Kelly (Econometrica 61:1355– 1365, 1993), and generalize their result. By introducing an alternative criterion of power structure, a dominance relation, we show that if a social welfare function on the unrestricted domain satisfies the independence of irrelevant alt...

There exist congenital diseases that reduce newborns' potential opportunities. This reduction is sometimes alleviated if the congenital disease is early detected thanks to a newborn screening program. We propose an outcome measurement of newborn screening programs based on the opportunity gains they offer after its implementation. We show that, under plausible assumptions, preferences among the...

We study pure exchange economies with symmetries on preferences up to taste intensity transformations. In a 2-person, 2-good endowment economy, we show that bilateral symmetry on each utility functional precludes a rectangle in the Edgeworth box as the location of Pareto optimal allocations. Under strictly quasi-concave preferences, a larger set can be ruled out. The inadmissible region is stil...

This paper studies the relation between Bayesian mechanism design and the Ramsey-Boiteux approach to the provision and pricing of excludable public goods. For a large economy with private information about individual preferences, the two approaches are shown to be equivalent if and only if, in addition to incentive compatibility and participation constraints, the …nal allocation of private-good...

رآکتور مینیاتوری چشمه نوترونی یک تحقیقاتی از نوع مخزن-استخری است که در آن اورانیم با غنای بالا به‌عنوان سوخت، آب سبک خنک‌کننده و برلیوم بازتابنده استفاده ‌شده است. هنگام بهره­برداری دمای سیال افزایش می­یابد باعث ایجاد فیدبک منفی می‌شود. بر اثر تزریق راکتیویته عین حال یکی مزایای این خصلت ایمنی ذاتی است، اضافی دسترس کاهش‌یافته زمان عملکرد کاهش می‌یابد؛ بنابراین محدودیت­های اصلی MNSR کوتاه (حدود 5...

This paper discusses a novel approach to elicit people’s preferences for public goods, namely the life satisfaction approach. Reported subjective well-being data are used to directly evaluate utility consequences of public goods. The strengths of this approach are compared to traditional approaches and identification issues are addressed. Moreover, it is applied to estimate utility losses cause...

We study top trading cycles in a two-sided matching environment (Abdulkadiroglu and Sonmez (2003)) under the assumption that individuals’ preferences and objects’ priorities are drawn iid uniformly. The distributions of agents’ preferences and objects’ priorities remaining after a given round of TTC depend nontrivially on the exact history of the algorithm up to that round (and so need not be u...

This paper studies the design of optimal utilitarian mechanisms for an excludable public good. Excludability provides a basis for making people pay for admissions; the payments can be used for redistribution and/or funding. Whereas previous work assumed that admissions are governed by the payment or nonpayment of a price, this paper allows for arbitrary admission rules. With su¢ cient inequalit...

Stochastic stability is applied to the problem of exchange. We analyze the stochastic stability of two dynamic trading processes in a simple housing market. In both models traders meet in pairs at random and exchange their houses when trade is mutually beneficial, but occasionally they make mistakes. The models differ in the probability of mistakes. When all mistakes are equally likely, the set...

The paper develops an analytic integrated assessment model of climate change (AIAM). The model enhances our current understanding of climate policy and explains crucial relations to the broader audience. Is the first quantitative analytic model comprising all the relevant components of its numeric deterministic counterparts used in policy advising. The model comes with a new framework to addres...