Browsing Faculté des arts et des sciences by Subject "D63"

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  • A Generalized Index of Fractionalization 

    Bossert, Walter; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; LA FERRARA, Eliana (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-01)
    The goal of this paper is to contribute to the economic literature on ethnic and cultural diversity by proposing a new index that is informationally richer and more flexible than the commonly used ‘ethno-linguistic fractionalization’ (ELF) index. We ...

  • Infinite-Horizon Choice Functions 

    Bossert, Walter; Asheim, Geir B.; Sprumont, Yves; Suzumura, Kotaro (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006)
    We analyze infinite-horizon choice functions within the setting of a simple linear technology. Time consistency and efficiency are characterized by stationary consumption and inheritance functions, as well as a transversality condition. In addition, ...

  • Measuring Economic Insecurity 

    Bossert, Walter; D'Ambrosio, Conchita (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2009-03)
    We provide a systematic treatment of the notion of economic insecurity, assuming that an individual’s sentiment of insecurity depends on the current wealth level and its variations experienced in the past. We think of wealth as a comprehensive variable ...

  • Multidimensional Poverty and Material Deprivation 

    Bossert, Walter; Chakravarty, Satya R.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2009-08)
    We examine the measurement of multidimensional poverty and material deprivation following the counting approach. In contrast to earlier contributions, dimensions of well-being are not forced to be equally important but different weights can be assigned ...

  • Population Ethics 

    Blackorby, Charles; Bossert, Walter; Donaldson, David (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-09)
    This paper reviews the welfarist approach to population ethics. We provide an overview of the critical-level utilitarian population principles and their generalized counterparts, examine important properties of these principles and discuss their ...

  • Priorities in the Location of Multiple Public Facilities 

    Bochet, Olivier; Gordon, Sidartha (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-07)
    A collective decision problem is described by a set of agents, a profile of single-peaked preferences over the real line and a number k of public facilities to be located. We consider public facilities that do not su¤er from congestion and are ...

  • Relative Egalitarianism and Related Criteria 

    Sprumont, Yves (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2009-02)
    We reconsider the problem of aggregating individual preference orderings into a single social ordering when alternatives are lotteries and individual preferences are of the von Neumann-Morgenstern type. Relative egalitarianism ranks alternatives by ...

  • Sharing the Cost of a Public Good without Subsidies 

    FLEURBAEY, Marc; Sprumont, Yves (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-07)
    We study the construction of a social ordering function for the case of a public good financed by contributions from the population, and we extend the analysis of Maniquet and Sprumont (2004) to the case when contributions cannot be negative, i.e. ...

  • Sharing the Cost of a Public Good: an Incentive-Constrained Axiomatic Approach 

    Sprumont, Yves; MANIQUET, François (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-07)
    We study the problem of provision and cost-sharing of a public good in large economies where exclusion, complete or partial, is possible. We search for incentive-constrained efficient allocation rules that display fairness properties. Population ...