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- 1977
- Working Paper
Mitigating Demographic Risk Through Social Insurance
By: Jerry R. Green
A two-period lifetime overlapping generations growth model is used to evaluate the possibility that social insurance can effectively offset economic risks associated with uncertainty about the rate of population growth. Crude measures of the seriousness of this type of... View Details
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On the Revelation of Preferences for Public Goods
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
- Article
Imperfect Personal Information and the Demand Revealing Process: A Sampling Approach
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
- Article
Characterization of Satisfactory Mechanisms for the Revelation of Preferences for Public Goods
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Social decision mechanisms that admit dominant strategies and result in Pareto optima are characterized by the class of mechanisms proposed by Groves. The concept of decision mechanisms is generalized and the characterization is shown to extend to these cases. View Details
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Révélation des préferences pour les biens publics: Caractérisation des mécanismes satisfaisants
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
- 01 Jan 1977
- Conference Presentation
Short Term Natural Gas Consumption Forecasts: Optimal Use of National Weather Service Data
By: James K. Sebenius and Richard Lehman
- November 1976
- Article
Partial Equilibrium Approach to the Free-Rider Problem
By: Jerry R. Green, Elon Kohlberg and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Groves and others have shown that truthful answers concerning preferences for public goods can be elicited as dominant strategies if appropriate tax-subsidies rules are applied. This paper studies the statistical properties of the total revenues generated by one of the... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges
- Article
A Brief Note on the Efficiency of Equilibria with Costly Transactions
By: Jerry R. Green and Heraklis Polemarchakis
- Article
On the Optimal Structure of Liability Laws
By: Jerry R. Green
We consider the control of tvo-party accidents through the use of liability rules that assign damages according to whether or not predetermined standards for care have been met. Particular emphasis is given to how the differential in the costs of accident avoidance... View Details
- 1975
- Working Paper
Information, Efficiency and Equilibrium
By: Jerry R. Green
When economic agents receive information over time concerning future events it is likely that prices for commodities whose value is influenced by these events will fluctuate in response to changes in the state of knowledge. If such events occur periodically,... View Details
- 1975
- Chapter
Planned Reduction in Electrical Energy Use in Nashville: A Preliminary Assessment
By: J. K. Sebenius and B. D. Lichter
- Article
The Nature of Stochastic Equilibria
By: Jerry R. Green and Mukul Majumdar
This paper formulates the notion of stochastic equilibria as invariant probability distributions consistent with the behavior patterns of individuals and the disequilibrium adjustment mechanism of the economy. Conditions for existence, uniqueness, and stability of such... View Details
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Competitive Inefficiencies in the Presence of Constrained Transactions
By: Jerry R. Green and Eytan Sheshinski
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A Note on the Progressivity of Optimal Public Expenditures
By: Jerry R. Green and Eytan Sheshinski