Paper concerns to impact on custom receipts of duty rate changing from single to differentiated ones by customs house for foreign producers. To get maximal custom receipts for achieving of social goal state may introduce differentiated duty rates for foreign producers of unique product. Success of this state policy will depend on effectiveness of incentive compatibility conditions for these pro...

In many settings, competing technologies — for example, operating systems, instant messenger systems, or document formats — can be seen adopting a limited amount of compatibility with one another; in other words, the dif culty in using multiple technologies is balanced somewhere between the two extremes of impossibility and effortless interoperability. There are a range of reasons why this phen...

The mere presence of a co-actor can influence an individual's response behavior. For instance, a social Simon effect has been observed when two individuals perform a Go/No-Go response to one of two stimuli in the presence of each other, but not when they perform the same task alone. Such effects are argued to provide evidence that individuals co-represent the task goals and the to-be-performed ...

The incompatibility between the Pareto indifference criterion and a concern for greater equality in living standards of heterogenous populations (see, amongst others, Ebert, 1995, 1997, Ebert and Moyes, 2003 and Shorrocks, 1995) might come as a surprise, since both principles are reconcilable when people differ only in income (homogenous population). We present two families of welfare rankings ...

feminist critical discourse analysis is an approach distinguished by its focus on revealing unequal power relations between women and men in their social life. in the present paper, it is suggested that simone de beauvoir’s theory of the formation of gender identity and female subject in the second sex provides a meaningful theoretical ground to the feminist critical discourse analysis. althoug...