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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"social welfare function"”.
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Is economic growth desirable? A welfare economic analysis of the Thai experience
… is desirable as it is the best means to increase social welfare and enhancing social welfare is a rational objective of society and governments. Economic growth increases social welfare through improving health outcomes, food intake and access to other basic needs. However, the costs of achieving …
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An environmental evaluation methodology for improving resource allocation decisions : a treatise with selected South African case studies
… will make the greatest possible contribution to social well-being. The study had two major aims. One aim was to provide a rational philosophical framework for guiding resource evaluation and decisionmaking processes. The second - and principal - aim was to develop a reliable and practical method …
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Analysis of Economic Models Through Calculus of Variations
… maximizing or minimizing of various objective functions given a set of constraints. This topic brings out one of the best ways to show the relationship between mathematics and economics. My thesis consists of three parts: The first chapter contains a review of the calculus of variations. Basic …
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Collective and Individual Rationality: Some Episodes in the History of Economic Thought
… game theory and Arrow's impossibility theorem in social choice theory sets the scene. The prisoners' dilemma epitomises the collective irrationality coordination problems lead to. The source of the dilemma is identified as the combination of interdependence in content and independence in form of …
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Evaluating social welfare implications of forestry policies when economic and environmental values matter in a British Columbia context
… equation is used to evaluate the comparative social welfare implications of a set of forestry policies in British Columbia. A one-hectare timber stand is modeled with a timber firm as the licensee and the provincial government as the resource owner and policy-maker. Rotation time and …
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Investment and human capital externalities: knowledge spillovers
… measure this externality and do not show how a social planner would act to internalize the distortions caused by the action of the market, while maximizing the welfare of those involved in this economy. The general goal is investigate size and sources of externalities in human capital …
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Essays on loss aversion and household portfolio choice
… being equal. The third chapter explores the socially optimal level of insurance given that households are subject to behavioral biases, especially narrow framing and loss aversion. The central issue of this normative analysis is whether or not a social welfare function (SWF) should take into …
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Optimal road pricing scheme design
… MPEC problem, three possible methods (the merit function method, improved cutting plane algorithm, and Genetics Algorithm (GA) based algorithm) were developed and tested with the optimal toll problem. The GA based algorithm was found to be the most appropriate for the development of the design …
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A theory of managed floating
… exchange rates are evaluated in terms of a social welfare function, or, to be more precise, in terms of an intertemporal loss function containing a central bank’s final targets output and inflation. We explicitly model the source of the observable fear of floating by questioning the basic …
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A semantic system for stakeholder-sensitive planning and design of sustainable civil infrastructure systems
… alternatives in terms of their collective social, environmental, and economic benefits to the stakeholders. To address the above requirements, this research developed a semantic system for stakeholder-sensitive benefit analysis of infrastructure project alternatives to support the …