Ulrich U. Schmidt

Stefan Traub

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 Handbook of Utility Theory (appearing at Kluwer Academic Publishers/Springer Economics), has dedicated most of his research to utility and decision theory, social choice theory, welfare economics, and public economics. During the last decade, he has turned part of his attention to a research tool that is increasingly gaining in importance in economics: the laboratory experiment. This volume is an attempt to illuminate all facets of Christian Seidl’s ambitious research agenda by presenting a collection of both theoretical and expe- mental papers on Utility,Choice,andWelfare written by his closest friends, former students, and much valued colleagues. Christian Seidl was born on August 5, 1940, in Vienna, Austria. Beginning Winter term 1962/63, he studied Economics and Business Administration at the Vienna School of Economics (then “Hochschule fff ̈ ur ̈ Welthandel”). 1966 he was awarded an MBA by the Vienna School of Economics and 1969 a doctoral degree in Economics. In October 1968 Christian became a research assistant at the Institute of Economics at the University of Vienna. 1973 he acquired his habilitation (right to teach) in Economics — supervised by Wilhelm Weber — from the Department of Law and Economics of the University of Vienna. He was awarded the Dr.

A Festschrift for Christian Seidl

Advances in Public Economics: Utility, Choice and Welfare

Christian Seidl

Kirill Pogorelskiy

​This is the first book that performs international and intertemporal comparisons of uniform tax progression with empirical data. While conventional measures of tax progression suffer from serious disadvantages for empirical analyses, this book extends uniform measures to progression comparisons of countries with different income distributions. Tax progression is analyzed in terms of Lorenz curve and Suits curve equivalents of net incomes and taxes. The authors derive six distinct definitions of the relation "is more progressive than", which are then utilized for an empirical analysis of 13 countries included in the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). In two thirds of all international comparisons of tax progression, the authors report a clear ranking of the respective countries in terms of progression dominance. Tax based definitions of greater progressivity perform best. These observations are yet reinforced by statistical tests. The book also provides an account of the institutional background of the involved countries in order to facilitate the interpretation of the data. Moreover, the authors conduct intertemporal comparisons of tax progression for selected countries and perform a sensitivity analysis with respect to the parameterization of the equivalence scale.

An Integrative Analysis of Tax Schedules and Income Distributions

Tax Progression in OECD Countries

Competition, welfare, and competition policy / Kotaro Suzumura -- In what sense is the Nash solution fair? / Walter Trockel -- Utility invariance in non-cooperative games / Peter J. Hammond -- Compensated demand and inverse demand functions : a duality approach / Susanne Fuchs-Seliger -- Shadow prices for a nonconvex public technology in the presence of private constant returns / John W. Weymark -- A glance at some fundamental public economics issues through a parametric lens / Christos Koulovatianos -- Rent seeking in public procurement / Dieter Bös, Martin Kolmar -- A new subjective approach to equivalence scales : an empirical investigation / Carsten Schröder, Ulrich Schmidt -- Utility independence in health profiles : an empirical study / Ana M. Guerrero, Carmen Herrero -- Constructing a preference-oriented index of environmental quality / Michael Ahlheim, Oliver Frör -- Measuring and evaluating intergenerational mobility : evidence from students' questionnaires / Michele Bernasconi, Valentino Dardanoni -- Equity, fiscal equalization, and fiscal mobility / Stefan Traub -- Comparing theories : what are we looking for? / John Hey -- Overbidding in first price private value auctions revisited : implications of a multi-unit auctions experiment / Veronika Grimm, Dirk Engelmann -- Modelling judgmental forecasts under tabular and graphical data presentation formats / Otwin Becker et al. -- Understanding conjunction fallacies : an evidence theory model of representativeness / Hans Wolfgang Brachinger -- The riskless utility mapping of expected utility and all theories imposing the dominance principle / Robin Pope.

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