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Optimal Income Taxation and Public Good Provision in a Two-Class Economy
Full text linkThis paper combines the problem of optimal income taxation with the free-rider problem in public good provision. There are two groups of individuals with private information on their earning ability and their valuation of a public good. Adjustments of the transfer system are needed to discourage the more productive from exaggerating the desirability of public good provision. Similarly, the less productive need to be prevented from understating their valuation. Relative to an optimal income tax, which focuses solely on earning ability, income transfers are increased whenever a public good is installed and are decreased otherwise
Informative Voting and the Samuelson Rule
Full text linkWe study the classical free-rider problem in public goods provision in a large economy with uncertainty about the average valuation of the public good. Individual preferences over public goods are shaped by a skill and a taste parameter. We use a mechanism design approach to solve for the optimal utilitarian provision rule. The relevant incentive constraints for information aggregation ensure that individuals behave as if they were engaging in informative voting over the level of public good provision. It is shown that the use of information by an optimal provision rule is inversely related to the polarization of preferences which results from the properties of the skill distribution
TraSIS PI Prof. Serena Tolino presents at Max Planck Institute
No full textReport on the presentation of the theoretical framework of the project "TraSIS: Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies. Three Concepts from Islamic Legal Sources" by PI Serena Tolino. The presentation took place during the Afternoon Talks on Islamic Law, a lecture series held regularly on Thursday afternoons at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg
The past, present, and future of demography and the role of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
No full textDemography, within the memories of those now living,has been shaped by a few outstanding centers,the Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques,the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, and the Princeton Office of Population Research. The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, whose new building received a festive dedication on 31 March 2003, now joins this distinguished family
Contemporary Research on European Fertility: Introduction
Full text linkThis paper introduces a collection of related studies on different aspects of research on European fertility and family dynamics. The authors who have contributed to this special Volume presented their papers at a working party at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, April 2004. This collection has been produced in honor of Jan M. Hoem for his 65th birthday. It provides an overview of important approaches to, and relevant topics of European fertility research, as well as a number of case studies researching European fertility. In this introduction, we first give a brief summary of the present state of arts in fertility research in Europe, and we then proceed with an overview of the articles of the Volume.Europe, fertility, fertility research
Zeitschriftenverzeichnis der Juristischen Max-Planck-Institute
No full textZeitschriftenverzeichnis der Juristischen Max-Planck-Institute. In: Revue internationale de droit comparé. Vol. 21 N°4, Octobre-décembre 1969. pp. 905-906
Guide for the program Exact-NL
No full textA detailed description is given of a set of programs called EXACT-NL, which computes fetch- or duration limited wave growth with an explicit expression for the resonant four-wave interactions. This guide is meant as a user's manual. lt describes the principles and usage of each program of the EXACT-NL model. We used the EXACT-NL model for the computation of shallow water growth curves (Weber) and for the investigation of the directional response of waves to variations in the wind field (Van Vledder) . The modifications necessary for these specific purposes are also described
Postdoctoral position in Phonetics and Phonology at Max Planck Institute
No full textUniversity or Organization: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Job Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands Web Address: http://www.mpi.nl/departments/language-and-genetics/projects/genetic-biasing-in-language-and-speech Job Rank: Post Doc Specialty Areas: Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics Description: The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, is a world leader in the multidisciplinary approaches to the study of language. A new direction is represented..
Postdoctoral position in Phonetics and Phonology at Max Planck Institute
No full textUniversity or Organization: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Job Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands Web Address: http://www.mpi.nl/departments/language-and-genetics/projects/genetic-biasing-in-language-and-speech Job Rank: Post Doc Specialty Areas: Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics Description: The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, is a world leader in the multidisciplinary approaches to the study of language. A new direction is represented..
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
No full textSIRL member Seung Kyung Kim presented a poster at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics as part of a conference on Linking Social Effects in Language Processing to Social Effects in Language Evolution from September 15 to 16, 2016. The poster was entitled "Effects of emotional prosody in lexical processing"
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