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An Economic Approach to Social Choice II

Public Choice (1978)

Ted C Bergstrom and Trout Rader

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How to Discard Free Disposability--At No Cost

Journal of Mathematical Economics (1976)

Ted Bergstrom

This paper shows how to prove the existence of competitive equilibrium without assuming either monotonic preferences or free disposability--and without ...

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Preferences Which Have Open Graphs

Department of Economics, UCSB (1976)

Ted Bergstrom, Robert Parks and Trout Rader

Gale and Mas-Collel and Shafer and Sonnenschein introduced powerful new theorems on the existence of competitive equilibrium which used the ...

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Regulation of Externalities

Journal of Public Economics (1976)

Ted C Bergstrom

This paper presents a general equilibrium model with marketable pollution permits. It shows that competitive equilibrium with marketable permits is ...

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Maximal elements of Acyclic Relations on Compact Sets

Journal of Economic Theory (1975)

Ted Bergstrom

This paper proves that a continuous acyclic relation takes a maximal element on any compact set.

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The Core When Strategies are Restricted by Law

Review of Economic Studies (1975)

Ted Bergstrom

The alpha-core is defined to be the set of feasible allocations such that no coalition can do better for its ...

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Private Demands for Public Goods

American Economic Review (1973)

Ted Bergstrom and Robert P. Goodman

This paper develops a method for using data for a large cross-section of municipalities relating expenditures on specific local public ...

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A Note on Efficient Taxation

Journal of Political Economy (1973)

Ted Bergstrom

This note was inspired by a 1970 JPE paper by Robin Barlow, who claimed that if the ratio of income ...

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On Efficient Provision of Social Overhead Goods

Jahrbook der Wirtschaft Osteuropas. Yearbook of East European Economics (1973)

Ted Bergstrom

This paper was my attempt to build a theory of "public factors of production" such as scientific knowledge and to ...

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The Use of Markets to Control Pollution

Recherches Economique de Louvain (1973)

Ted C Bergstrom

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On the Existence and Optimality of Competitive Equilibrium for a ...

Review of Economic Studies (1971)

Ted Bergstrom

A famous paper by Conrad and Meyer calculates that on the eve of the American Civil War, slave prices were ...

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A Scandinavian Consensus Solution for Efficient Income Distribution Among Nonmalevolent ...

Journal of Economic Theory (1970)

Ted Bergstrom

If Persons A and B are both benevolent to C, then a gift from A to C also benefits B. ...

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Unpublished Paper

To Read and be Read: When monopolists control access to ...

(2019)

Ted C Bergstrom

Publishing in an established academic journal of high prestige gives high rewards in terms of salary and promotion for authors ...

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Unpublished Paper

Using Downloads and Citations to Evaluate Journals

(2017)

Alex Wood-Doughty, Ted C Bergstrom and Douglas G Steigerwald

Download rates of academic journals have joined citation rates as commonly usedmeasures of research influence. But in what ways and ...

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This paper addresses the question of when the Coasian assertion that in the absence of transactions costs, where there are ...

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Unpublished Paper

Efficient Ethical Rules for Volunteer's Dilemmas

(2017)

Ted C Bergstrom

This paper extends the classic Volunteer’s Dilemma game to environments in which individuals have differing costs and private information about ...

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Unpublished Paper

Living Supply and Demand Curves

(2019)

Ted C Bergstrom and Emanuel Vespa

This paper describes a classroom experiment in which students form "living supply and demand curves" withheights of demanders representing willingness ...

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Contribution to Book

Natural Kantian or Zoo Economicus? Evolutionary theories of selfishness and ...

Handbook on the economics of giving, reciprocity and altruism (2006)

Ted C Bergstrom

This paper addresses the question of whether our evolutionary history suggests that humans are likely to be individually selected selﬁsh ...

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When Non-transitive Relations Take Maxima and Competitive Equilibria Can't ...

Economic Theory and International Trade (2003)

Ted Bergstrom

The paper generalizes theorems of Ky Fan and Hugo Sonnenschein on the existence of maximal elements for non-transitive relations. I ...

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Contribution to Book

Comment on The Welfare Loss from Price Distortion

Department of Economics, UCSB (1996)

Ted Bergstrom

One of the most disconcerting results in welfare economics is the "paradox of the second best". In a general equilibrium, ...

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Contribution to Book

A Survey of Theories of the Family

Handbook of Population and Family Economics (1995)

Ted Bergstrom

This review explores the theory of household technology and the associated possibilities for distributing utility among household members. It also ...

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The effects of cohort size on marriage markets in twentieth ...

The family, the market, and the state in industrialized countries (1989)

Ted Bergstrom and David Lam

Large, short-run fluctuations in the birth rate have been an important demographic feature of industrialized, low-fertility populations in the twentieth ...

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Soldiers of Fortune

Essays in Honor of K.J. Arrow (1986)

Ted Bergstrom

This paper shows that if workers have identical wealths, abilities, and preferences then a draft lottery is Pareto superior to ...

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Contribution to Book

Property Rights and Taxation in the Australian Minerals Sector

The Minerals Sector and the Australian Economy (1984)

Ted C Bergstrom

Mineral deposits in Australia are generally owned by states. Exploration licenses and mining leases are granted to private firms. They ...

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When is a Man's Life Worth More Than His ...

The Value of Life and Safety (1982)

Ted Bergstrom

This paper develops a "subjectivist" theory of the value that individuals place on risks to their lives. It explains the ...

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