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Essays in the theory of risk-bearing
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The Theory of Excess Burden and Optimal Taxation
TL;DR: The theory of excess burden and optimal commodity taxation is one of the oldest subjects of study in public finance, dating back to Dupuit (1844), and yet is also closely associated with the rapid analytical development of the field which commenced in the early 1970s as mentioned in this paper.
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On the measurement of risk aversion from experimental data
TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured attitudes towards risk for households in Northern Zambia using an experimental gambling approach with real payoffs that at maximum were equal to 30% of average total annual income per capita.
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Multi-resource allocation: Fairness-efficiency tradeoffs in a unifying framework
TL;DR: Two families of fairness functions are developed that provide different tradeoffs, characterize the effect of user requests' heterogeneity, and prove conditions under which these fairness measures satisfy the Pareto efficiency, sharing incentive, and envy-free properties.
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Risk Intermediation in Supply Chains
Vipul Agrawal,Sridhar Seshadri +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present tools for analyzing and solving such a problem from the viewpoint of a (risk-neutral) seller/distributor, and they present two types of models that can be used to create contracts, one set in a discrete setting and the other in a continuous setting.
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Analyzing Firm Performance in the Insurance Industry Using Frontier Efficiency and Productivity Methods
J. David Cummins,Mary A. Weiss +1 more
TL;DR: A review of frontier efficiency and productivity methodologies that have been developed to analyze firm performance, emphasizing applications to the insurance industry, is presented in this article, where the focus is on the two most prominent methodologies: stochastic frontier analysis using econometrics and non-parametric frontier analyses using mathematical programming.