Social Welfare and Behavioral Public Policies


Autoria(s): Fabbri, Marco <1983>
Contribuinte(s)

Parisi, Francesco

Visscher, Louis

Data(s)

15/12/2014

Resumo

In this work I discuss several key aspects of welfare economics and policy analysis and I propose two original contributions to the growing field of behavioral public policymaking. After providing a historical perspective of welfare economics and an overview of policy analysis processes in the introductory chapter, in chapter 2 I discuss a debated issue of policymaking, the choice of the social welfare function. I contribute to this debate by proposing an original methodological contribution based on the analysis of the quantitative relationship among different social welfare functional forms commonly used by policy analysts. In chapter 3 I then discuss a behavioral policy to contrast indirect tax evasion based on the use of lotteries. I show that the predictions of my model based on non-expected utility are consistent with observed, and so far unexplained, empirical evidence of the policy success. Finally, in chapter 4 I investigate by mean of a laboratory experiment the effects of social influence on the individual likelihood to engage in altruistic punishment. I show that bystanders’ decision to engage in punishment is influenced by the punishment behavior of their peers and I suggest ways to enact behavioral policies that exploit this finding.

Formato

application/pdf

Identificador

http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/6738/1/Fabbri_Marco_Tesi.pdf

urn:nbn:it:unibo-13838

Fabbri, Marco (2014) Social Welfare and Behavioral Public Policies, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in European doctorate in law and economics <http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/view/dottorati/DOT525/>, 27 Ciclo. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/6738.

Idioma(s)

en

Publicador

Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

Relação

http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/6738/

Direitos

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Palavras-Chave #SECS-P/03 Scienza delle finanze
Tipo

Doctoral Thesis

PeerReviewed