Browsing Økonomisk institutt by Author "Tungodden, Bertil"

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  • Sustainable recursive social welfare functions 
    Asheim, Geir Bjarne; Mitra, Tapan; Tungodden, Bertil (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
    What ethical criterion for intergenerational justice should be adopted, e.g., when faced with the task of managing the global environment? Koopmans axiomatization of discounted utilitarianism is based on seemingly compelling ...
  • The merit primacy effect 
    Cappelen, Alexander Wright; Moene, Karl Ove (Kalle); Skjelbred, Siv-Elisabeth; Tungodden, Bertil (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    A long history in economics going back to Adam Smith has argued that people give primacy to merit – rather than luck – in distributive choices. We provide a theoretical framework formalizing the merit primacy effect, and ...