Advances in Public Economics: Utility, Choice and Welfare A Festschrift for Christian Seidl /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schmidt, Ulrich (Editor), Traub, Stefan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: Theory and Decision Library C:, Series C: Game Theory, Mathematical Programming and Operations Research, 38
• Subjects: Operations research.; Decision making.; Economic theory.; Microeconomics.; Public finance.; Economics.; Public Economics.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

This Festschrift in honor ofChristian Seidl combines a group of prominent authors who are experts in areas like public economics, welfare economic, decision theory, and experimental economics in a unique volume. Christian Seidl who has edited together with Salvador Barber` a ` and Peter Hammond the...

Table of Contents:

• Competition, Welfare, and Competition Policy
• In What Sense is the Nash Solution Fair?
• Utility Invariance in Non-Cooperative Games
• Compensated Demand and Inverse Demand Functions: A Duality Approach
• Shadow Prices for a Nonconvex Public Technology in the Presence of Private Constant Returns
• A Glance at Some Fundamental Public Economics Issues Through a Parametric Lens
• Rent Seeking in Public Procurement
• A New Subjective Approach to Equivalence Scales: An Empirical Investigation
• Utility Independence In Health Profiles: An Empirical Study
• Constructing a Preference-Oriented Index of Environmental Quality
• Measuring and Evaluating Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from Students’ Questionnaires
• Equity, Fiscal Equalization, and Fiscal Mobility
• Comparing Theories: What are We Looking for?
• Overbidding in First Price Private Value Auctions Revisited: Implications of a Multi-Unit Auctions Experiment
• Modelling Judgmental Forecasts under Tabular and Graphical Data Presentation Formats
• Understanding Conjunction Fallacies: An Evidence Theory Model of Representativeness
• The Riskless Utility Mapping of Expected Utility and All Theories Imposing the Dominance Principle: Its Inability to Include Loans, Commitments Even with Fully Described Decision Trees.