A rejoinder

Abstract

This paper reflects on the influence of Vilfredo Pareto's letters on Ricardian equivalence and fiscal theory to Benvenuto Griziotti and Guido Sensini. The letters are important for emphasizing the need for fiscal studies to consider equilibrium, particularly social equilibrium, at a time when Italian fiscal sociology was in its formative stage. Griziotti came to accept fiscal sociology, albeit in an eclectic form that focused directly on political and legislative matters rather than social equilibrium. In contrast, Sensini progressively developed a framework for fiscal theory that focused primarily on the fundamental relationship between fiscal phenomena and social equilibrium.     

成本分担博弈与维克里拍卖机制研究

成本分担博弈中的平均分担机制往往导致参与人低报自己的收益率,从而导致博弈结果的无效率。笔者通过在成本分担博弈中引入维克里机制,利用参与人的占优策略——说真话,使成本分担博弈的结果实现了帕累托最优配置。     

On equitable social welfare functions satisfying the Weak Pareto Axiom: A complete characterization

The present paper examines the problem of aggregating infinite utility streams with a social welfare function that respects the Anonymity and Weak Pareto Axioms. The paper provides a complete characterization of domains (of the one period utilities) on which such an aggregation is possible. A social welfare function satisfying the Anonymity and Weak Pareto Axioms exists on precisely those domains that do not contain any set of the order type of the set of positive and negative integers. The criterion is applied to decide on possibility and impossibility results for a variety of domains. It is also used to provide an alternative formulation of the characterization result in terms of the accumulation points of the domain.     

Moments of Compound Mixed Poisson Distributions

Recursive formulae are derived for the evaluation of the moments and the descending factorial moments about a point n of mixed Poisson and compound mixed Poisson distributions, in the case where the derivative of the logarithm of the mixing density can be written as a ratio of polynomials. As byproduct, we also obtain recursive formulae for the evaluation of the moments about the origin, central moments, descending and ascending factorial moments of these distributions. Examples are also presented for a number of mixing densities.     

Was Jules Dupuit a Market Socialist: A Retrospective Note on Marginal Cost Pricing

This paper examines the extent to which Dupuit preceded Hotelling in the theory of marginal cost pricing and the relation of marginal cost pricing to the Pigou–Robinson definition of exploitation, Coase’s multipart pricing, and the Kaldor compensation principle. Tsuneki’s partial rehabilitation of Hotelling’s proof of MC pricing is partially endorsed.      

浅议如何确定社会保障税的最优税率

社会保障制度是我国社会主义福利事业的一个重要组成部分。它不仅作为维持劳动力再生产的物质保证而构成促进社会再生产顺利进行的重要手段,而且是社会稳定机制的一个重要组成部分。目前已有140多个国家和地区建立了社会保障制度,其中有80多个国家和地区开征了社会保障税或类似税种。文中对我国如何确定社会保障税的最优税率进行了简单的分析。     

转型目标、顺序及动力机制:一个文献述评

作为一种大规模制度变迁,转型向学者们提出了许多难题:转型的目标是什么?转型的最优顺序应该怎样?转型的动力机制有哪些?本文对上述问题的相关文献进行了概括,并对已有转型理论进行扩展和深化.     

A product Pareto distribution

The Pareto distributions are becoming increasing prominent in several applied areas. In this note, a new Pareto distribution is introduced. It takes the form of the product of two Pareto probability density functions. Various structural properties of this distribution are derived, including its cumulative distribution function, moments, mean deviation about the mean, mean deviation about the median, entropy, asymptotic distribution of the extreme order statistics, method of moments estimates, maximum likelihood estimates and the Fisher information matrix. The calculations involve the use of several special functions.     

工程项目全方位动态成本控制

未来激烈的市场竞争注定企业要想生存发展就必须全面提升自己的竞争力,传统的建筑行业也不例外。过去那种单凭施工管理人员经验进行成本控制的做法已经不适合现代新型管理模式了。通过对常见工程项目管理中成本失控原因的分析,总结出了成本控制中应注意的几点问题,最后结合成本控制中容易出现的问题,提出了一种全新的全方位动态成本控制体系。     

The fiscal sociology of Gino Borgatta: Pareto, extra-economic redistribution and economic growth

The purpose of this study is to establish the extent to whichBorgatta's early fiscal sociology is consistent with, and differentfrom, Vilfredo Pareto's critical views on fiscal theory. Particularemphasis is given to the treatment of the relationship between‘extra-economic’ redistribution, achieved throughfiscal measures, and economic growth. Since evidence of Pareto'sinfluence is much weaker in Borgatta's more mature studies,the ‘definitive’ Paretian fiscal sociology thatemerged in his early ‘Lo Studio Scientifico dei FenomeniFinanziari’ is investigated for possible indications ofwhy Borgatta did not subsequently develop fiscal studies furtheralong Paretian lines.