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DOI10.3386/w20705
来源IDWorking Paper 20705
Resolving Intertemporal Conflicts: Economics vs Politics
Antony Millner; Geoffrey Heal
发表日期2014-11-24
出版年2014
语种英语
摘要Intertemporal conflicts occur when a group of agents with heterogeneous time preferences must make a collective decision about how to manage a common asset. How should this be done? We examine two methods: an 'Economics' approach that seeks to implement efficient allocations, and a 'Politics' approach in which agents vote over consumption plans. We compare these methods by varying two characteristics of the problem: are agents' preferences known or are they hidden information, and can they commit to intertemporal collective plans or not? We show that if commitment is possible the Economics approach always Pareto dominates the Politics approach, in both full and hidden information scenarios. By contrast, without commitment the group may be better off if the Politics approach is adopted. We investigate when Politics trumps Economics analytically, and then apply our model to a survey of economists' views on the appropriate pure rate of time preference for project appraisal. For a wide range of model parameters, and under both full and hidden information, the Politics approach is supported by a majority of agents, and leads to higher group welfare.
主题Microeconomics ; Behavioral Economics ; Public Economics ; Public Goods ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Renewable Resources
URLhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w20705
来源智库National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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Antony Millner,Geoffrey Heal. Resolving Intertemporal Conflicts: Economics vs Politics. 2014.
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