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T Bergstrom… - Economic theory, 2005 - works.bepress.com
Abstract In many applications, assumptions about the log-concavity of a probability
distribution allow just enough special structure to yield a workable theory. This paper
catalogs a series of theorems relating log-concavity and/or log-convexity of probability ...
Abstract: This paper develops a" subjectivist" theory of the value that individuals place on
risks to their lives. It explains the paradox that although individuals may view their lives as
priceless, they still will take small risks for a finite amount of money. Typical public projects ...
TC Bergstrom - The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1979 - JSTOR
Page 1. WHEN DOES MAJORITY RULE SUPPLY PUBLIC GOODS EFFICIENTLY?*
Ted C. Bergstrom University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Abstract HR
Bowen showed that majority voting leads to a Pareto efficient ...
We study three different models in which public goods are supplied by private contributions.
In one of these models, tax-financed government subsidies to private contributions will
definitely increase the equilibrium supply of public goods. In the other two models, ...
T Bergstrom… - Journal of population economics, 1996 - Springer
Abstract This paper provides an empirical investigation of a theoretical model of the
marriage market. In the model, women are valued more for their ability to bear children and
men are valued more for their ability to make money. Men cannot reveal their labor market ...
[CITATION] General equilibrium
LW McKenzie, FM Fisher, J Geanakoplos, FH Hahn… - 1989 - Macmillan
Abstract: This paper explores the quantitative relation between non random, assortative
matching and the maintenance of cooperative behavior under evolutionary dynamics. It
considers a population of individuals who are hardwired to play either cooperate or defect. ...
T Bergstrom… - European Journal of Political Economy, 1996 - Elsevier
This paper presents a theoretical model of political support for public provision of day care.
In an economy where there are high taxes on wage income, selfish taxpayers with no
children in the day care system may favor substantial public subsidies to day care ...
T Bergstrom - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1989 - JSTOR
In honor of St. Valentine's day, we offer a puzzle about love and a puzzle about virtue. Surely
these topics are inexhaustible sources of riddles for thoughtful people in all disciplines.
Readers are invited to suggest better answers to the puzzles, to pose new puzzles or to ...
Abstract: This paper shows that if workers have identical wealths, abilities, and preferences
then a draft lottery is Pareto superior to a voluntary army. It also shows that if being a civilian
is a" normal good", then the optimal pay schedule will be such that people prefer not being ...
This paper is scanned from the Journal of Economic Theory, December 1970 and is printed
with the publisher's permission. The publisher asks me to announce that the website of the
JET is found at http://www. elsevier. com/locate/issn/0022-0531.
... Author: Bergstrom, Ted, University of California, Santa Barbara Publication Date: 08-25-1994
Series: Ted Bergstrom Papers Publication Info: Ted Bergstrom Papers, Department of Economics,
UCSB, UC Santa Barbara Permalink: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6kr536bv ...
This paper was published in the Journal of Public Economics. I scanned this copy from the
paper edition and am posting it with the permission of the publisher. The publisher asks that
I post the homepage of the journal and of Science Direct. These are: http://www. elsevier. ...
Abstract: Large, short-run fluctuations in the birth rate have been an important demographic
feature of industrialized, low-fertility populations in the twentieth century. Since females
normally marry men who are two or three years older than themselves, these fluctuations ...
T Bergstrom - The Review of Economic Studies, 1971 - JSTOR
With their fascinating paper, Economics of Slavery in the Ante-bellum South, Alfred Conrad
and John Meyer [2] have stimulated considerable interest in the question of the institutional
stability of slavery. Prior to their work, a conventional view of historians was that slave ...
T Bergstrom - American Economic Review, 2006 - works.bepress.com
Abstract How should benefit-cost analysis account for the value that benevolent individuals
place on other people's pleasure from public goods? When adding up the benefits to be
compared with costs, should we sum the private valuations, the altruistic valuations, or ...
This paper was published (buried) in 1976 in an edited volume, Theory and Measurement of
Economic Inequalities, edited by Steven Y. Lin, published by Academic Press. Even at this
early stage in my career, I should have known better than to put a good paper in such an ...
T Bergstrom… - The Rand Journal of Economics, 1991 - JSTOR
Consider a public utility that offers its service at two different times. We study the effects of a
change from uniform pricing throughout the day to peak-load pricing. We show that for a
utility constrained to operate with a fixed rate of return on capital, the introduction of peak- ...
Abstract: This paper explores the workings of stratified societies in which there is
primogeniture and where the nobility practice monogamous marriage with a double
standard of sexual fidelity. We model a simple stratified society and define the ...
Abstract We develop a model of marriage market equilibrium that can be used to study
effects of the age distribution of men and women on marriage patterns. The model clarifies
issues in the literature such as the two-sex problem and the marriage squeeze. In ...
Abstract: How do rats and squirrels decide how much to hoard for the winter when they do
not know how long the winter will be? This paper argues that natural selection is likely to
result in random differences in the attitudes toward systemic risk by genetically identical ...
Cournot Equilibrium in Factor Markets by Theodore С. Bergstrom University of Michigan
Abstract. The classic model of oligopoly is Cournot's case of two mineral water sellers whose
products axe perfect substitutes for each other. Cournot shows that in this case there is an ...
TC Bergstrom - Journal of Public Economics, 1976 - works.bepress.com
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Ted C Bergstrom January 1976 Regulation of Externalities ...
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T Bergstrom - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1990 - JSTOR
The puzzles in this column focus on the issues of crime and confiscation. Answers to all
three puzzles can be found at the end of the column. As mentioned in the Spring 1990 issue,
the editors are currently searching both for a new puzzles editor and for new puzzles. If ...
T Bergstrom - Journal of Political Economy, 1993 - econ.ucsb.edu
Proposing marriage, an eager suitor might promise a lifetime of devoted service to the
whims of his beloved. But a sensible young woman, even if she hasn't studied game theory,
is likely to be skeptical. She is more likely to base her expectations about marriage on ...
Abstract: This paper presents a model of interrelated preferences for pairs of individuals. It
investigates the possibility of an equilibrium with voluntary transactions. It identifies the
puzzling case of two people who disagree because each wants the other to have the ...
T Bergstrom - National Tax Journal, 1979 - works.bepress.com
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S Chatterjee, J Aizenman… - Macroeconomic …, 2007 - Cambridge Univ Press
The choice between private and government provision of a productive public good like
infrastructure (public capital) is examined in the context of an endogenously growing open
economy. The accumulation of public capital need not require government provision, in ...
Abstract: When academic journals were distributed only as paper editions, the obvious way
for scholars to share a journal was to use the copy found on the shelves of their own
university library. With the arrival of electronic access, the logistics of journal-sharing has ...
T Bergstrom - Pacific Economic Review, 1996 - works.bepress.com
Abstract In 1951, Paul Samuelson showed that a surprisingly rich class of economies the
production possibility frontier is a linear and even with neoclassical substitution possibilities,
as outputs adjust, firms continue to use inputs and outputs in the same proportions. This ...
This paper appeared in 1992 in Economic Theory and International Trade, edited by
Wilhelm Neuefeind. This is a memorial volume for my friend and colleague, Trout Rader--a
man whom I admired greatly and from whom I learned a lot.
TC Bergstrom, KI Shimomura… - BE Journ al of Theoretical …, 2009 - works.bepress.com
Page 1. University of California, Santa Barbara From the SelectedWorks of Ted C
Bergstrom January 2009 Simple Economies with Multiple Equilibria ...
[CITATION] Remarks on Public Goods Theory and the Economics of the Family
T Bergstrom - … manuscript, Department of Economics, University of …, 1984
Mineral deposits in Australia are generally owned by states. Exploration licenses and mining
leases are granted to private firms. They are not sold to the highest bidder but are awarded
according to a system of "work program bidding". Such bids entail a promise to undertake a certain ...
[CITATION] Demographics and the Political Stability of Payas-you-go Social Security
[CITATION] The Evolution of Altruism among Diploid Siblings who Play Games Like Prisoner's Dilemma
C Bergstrom… - 1992 - University of Michigan Working …
M Bagnoli… - Microeconomics, 1994 - ideas.repec.org
We have found several propositions in the economics of information which depend on the
log of the cumulative distribution distribution of a random variable being a concave function.
In this paper we present several theorems and applications of the property of log- ...
[CITATION] nd Cost-Benefit Analysis
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[CITATION] Selected papers on the econmy of Academic Journals. 2005
T Bergstrom
[CITATION] Log-concave probability and its applications. University of California at Santa Barbara
M Bagnoli… - Economics Working Paper Series 1989D, Department …, 2004
Page 1. University of California, Santa Barbara From the SelectedWorks of Ted C
Bergstrom April 2009 Ethics, Evolution, and games Among Neighbors ...
These comments appeared in a collection of papers by Trout Rader, to which were
appended comments and evaluations by a number of economists. The collection was called
Economics with No Special Technology and was published in 1996.
T Bergstrom, J Roberts, D Rubinfeld… - Papers, 1988 - ideas.repec.org
This paper devises and applies a statistical test for efficient provision of local public
education. The test is based on the``Samuelson condition''of equality between the sum of
marginal rates of substitution and marginal cost. The econometric method is a micro- ...
The fundamental rule of benefit-cost analysis is that if taxes are non-distortionary, then a
necessary condition for efficient supply of any public good is that the sum of individual
marginal rates of substitution between public and private goods equals the marginal cost ...
Abstract: This paper was my attempt to build a theory of" public factors of production" such as
scientific knowledge and to see whether there is any way that Arrow-Debreu general
equilibrium theory can cope with the nonconvexities that arise. I propose that the economy ...
Abstract: William Hamilton developed the biological theory of kin selection before game
theory became familiar to biologists. Thus he implicitly confined his analysis to a rather
special subclass of games, with linear structure. This paper shows that while Hamilton's ...
Abstract Can the government get people to contribute more to public goods by subsidizing
voluntary contributions. In a general equilibrium model, answering this question is not a
slam dunk, especially given the remarkable" neutrality theorems" in the theory of voluntary ...
Edward Chamberlin conjectured that the number of trades in realistic trading systems is
likely to exceed that predicted by competitive equilibrium theory. He supported this
conjecture by data from a large number of classroom experiments and with a plausible ...
Page 1. HUMAN CAPITAL IN AN ECONOMIC GROWTH MODEL A DISSERTAI!ON
SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND THE COMMITTEE ON
THE GRADUATE DIVISION OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY ...
This paper presents a theoretical model of political support for the public provision of day
care. In an economy where there are high taxes on wage income, selfish taxpayers with no
children in the day care system may favor substantial public subsidies to day care ...
Abstract: Edward Chamberlin conjectured that the number of trades in realistic trading
systems is likely to exceed that predicted by competitive equilibrium theory. He supported
this conjecture by data from a large number of classroom experiments and with a ...
Abstract This paper Was stimulated by a paper by Peter Ware, Who used calculus firstorder
conditons to show that a redistribution of income that does not change the set of voluntary
contributors leaves the supply of public goods unchanged. In general, redistributions can ...
Page 1. A Public Choice Framework for Controlling Transmissible and Evolving
Diseases Benjamin M. Althouse ∗, Theodore C. Bergstrom † and Carl T. Bergstrom ∗ ‡
∗Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle ...
Abstract We describe classroom experiments designed to test and illustrate matching
mechanisms outlined in Gale and Shapley (1962). Two methods are presented, one in
which rankings are provided and one in which they are supplied by the students.
In 1967, I had the great good fortune of being a new assistant professor at Washington
University when Trout Rader was a young associate professor with no other theorists around
him to talk to. For me these were exciting times. Here was a person with powerful technical ...
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I was proud of this paper when I wrote it. It had some new tricks and, I thought, the best
existing proof of the existence of competitive equilibrium. I sent it to a journal and the
referees didn't share my enthusiasm. They did, however, like my trick for disposing of free ...
One of the more disconcerting “negative” results in the theory of welfare economics was
articulated by Richard Lipsey and Kelvin Lancaster in 1956 in their paper “The General
Theory of Second Best”. They demonstrated that if there are “distortions” in more than one ...
There are n boys and m girls. The boys are all expected utility maximizers and agree about the
desirability of the prospect of dating each girl. Boys assign utility v_i to a date with girl i, where
v_1>v_2>\dots v_n>0 and a utility of 0to having no date. Girls don't care which boy they go ...
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... Publication Date: 08-19-2011 Series: Ted Bergstrom Papers Publication Info: Ted Bergstrom
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uc/item/3ds8d7b5 Additional Info: This is a substantially revised version. ...
[CITATION] The Editors of the Harvard Review of Psychiatry would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the seventeenth volume. Members of the Editorial …
K Ackerman, M Ahn, B Althouse, N Andreasen…
... Author: Bergstrom, Ted, University of California, Santa Barbara Publication Date: 09-01-2002
Series: Ted Bergstrom Papers Publication Info: Ted Bergstrom Papers, Department of Economics,
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J Hörner, BL Lipman, D Ray, S Athey, T Bergstrom… - Wiley Online Library
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Page 1. Big Macs and Eigenfactor Scores: Don't Let Correlation Coefficients Fool You
Jevin West1 Theodore Bergstrom2 Carl T. Bergstrom1,3 April 13, 2010 1Department
of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2Department ...
T Bergstrom… - Working Papers, 1988 - econpapers.repec.org
By Ted Bergstrom and Jeffrey Mackie-Mason; NOTES ON PEAK LOAD PRICING.
Students in a large principles class participated in a market experiment in which they had
opportunities to take entrepreneurial action. These students had also taken the Meyers-Briggs
personality test. We explore the relation between personality characteristics and participation ...
T Bergstrom… - Working Papers, 1991 - econpapers.repec.org
By Ted Bergstrom and Jeffrey Mackie-Mason; Peak-Load
Pricing-with and without Constrained Rate of reforn.
Consider a public utility that offers its service at two different times. We study the effects of a
change from uniform pricing throughout the day to peak-load pricing. We show that for a
utility constrained to operate with a fixed rate of return on capital, the introduction of peak- ...
Abstract When academic journals were distributed only as paper editions, the obvious way
for scholars to share a journal was to use the copy found on the shelves of their own
university library. With the arrival of electronic access, the logistics of journal-sharing has ...
[CITATION] och S. Blomquist (1996)," The Political Economy of Subsidized Day Care
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