Allan M. Feldman


Selected Working Papers (in Reverse Chronological Order):

Comparative Vigilance: A Simple Guide
(With Ram Singh.) Working Paper No. 2008-11
Department of Economics, Brown University
September 3, 2008.

Comparative Vigilance
(With Ram Singh.) Working Paper No. 2008-9
Department of Economics, Brown University
June 5, 2008, revised August 8, 2008..

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem: Two Simple Single-Profile Versions
(With Roberto Serrano.) Working Paper No. 2008-8
Department of Economics, Brown University
March 2008.

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem: Preference Diversity in a Single-Profile World
(With Roberto Serrano.) Working Paper No. 2007-12
Department of Economics, Brown University
July 2007.

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem: Two Simple Single-Profile Versions
(With Roberto Serrano.) Working Paper No. 2006-11
Department of Economics, Brown University
April 2006. Revised February 2007.

Victim or Injurer: Negligence-Based Liability Rules Under Role-Type Uncertainty, With An Extension to Collisions of Different-Sized Vehicles
(With Jeonghyun Kim.) Revised version of Working Paper No. 2003-17, August 2003
Department of Economics, Brown University
December 2005.

Value of Life, Value of Time, and Constant Relative Risk Aversion Utility
Working Paper No. 1998-13
Department of Economics, Brown University
July 1998.

Probabilistic Value of Life vs. Deterministic Value of Time
Working Paper No. 1997-22
Department of Economics, Brown University
September 1997.

The Value of Life Revisited
(Revised version of Working Paper No. 1996-2, January 1996)
Department of Economics, Brown University
January 1997.

Buying Time: A Model of the Dollar Value of Extra Years of Life
(Revised version of Working Paper No. 1995-31, September 1995)
Department of Economics, Brown University
September 19, 1996.

The Value of Life
Working Paper No. 94-21
Department of Economics, Brown University
August 1994.

 

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Selected Published Papers (in Reverse Chronological Order):

A Simple Guide to Comparative Vigilance (With Ram Singh, in Asian Journal of Law and Economics, 2011.)

Comparative Vigilance (With Ram Singh, in American Law and Economics Review, 2009.)

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem: Two Simple Single-Profile Versions (With Roberto Serrano, in Harvard College Mathematics Review, 2008.)

Welfare Economics (In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, 2008.)

Victim or Injurer, Small Car or SUV: Tort Liability Rules Under Role-Type Uncertainty (With Jeonghyun Kim, in International Review of Law and Economics, 2006.)

The Hand Rule and United States v. Carroll Towing Co. Reconsidered (With Jeonghyun Kim, in American Law and Economics Review, 2005.)

A Simple Model of Efficient Tort Liability Rules (With John Frost, in International Review of Law and Economics, 1998.)

Pareto Optimality (In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, 1998.)

Kaldor-Hicks Compensation (In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, 1998.)

Discounting in Forensic Economics (In Journal of Forensic Economics, 1990.)

Weighing the Values of Pensions as Marital Assets (In Rhode Island Bar Journal, 1989.)

Existence of Electoral Equilibria With Probabilistic Voting (With Kyung-Ho Lee, in Journal of Public Economics, 1988.)

Real Interest Rates and Total Offset in Computation of Damages in Death and Disability Cases (In Connecticut Bar Journal, 1988.)

Welfare Economics (In The New Palgrave, 1987.)

Equity (In The New Palgrave, 1987.)

A Model of Majority Voting and Growth in Government Expenditure (In Public Choice, 1985.)

Rhode Island - Sunset for Industrial Policy (In Policy Review, 1984.)

Utility Functions for Public Outputs and Majority Voting (With Behzad Diba, in Journal of Public Economics, 1984.)

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Neonatal Intensive Care for Infants Weighing Less Than 1,000 Grams at Birth (With D.J. Walker, B. Vohr and W. Oh, in Pediatrics, 1984.)

Strongly Nonmanipulable Multi-Valued Collective Choice Rules (In Public Choice, 1980.)

Manipulation and the Pareto Rule (In Journal of Economic Theory, 1979.)

Nonmanipulable Multi-Valued Social Decision Functions (In Public Choice, 1979.)

Manipulating Voting Procedures (In Economic Inquiry, 1979.)

Envy, Wealth, and Class Hierarchies (With David Weiman, in Journal of Public Economics, 1979.)

Puzzles and Problems Answer (With Harl Ryder, in Journal of Political Economy, 1975.)

A Very Unsubtle Version of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem (In Economic Inquiry, 1974.)

Fairness and Envy (With Alan Kirman, in The American Economic Review, 1974.)

Recontracting Stability (In Econometrica, 1974.)

Bilateral Trading Processes, Pairwise Optimality, and Pareto Optimality (In The Review of Economic Studies, 1973.)

 

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Selected Papers, by Topical Area (Within Areas, in Chronological Order):

(I) Mathematical economics

Bilateral Trading Processes, Pairwise Optimality, and Pareto Optimality (In The Review of Economic Studies, 1973.)

Recontracting Stability (In Econometrica, 1974.)

Manipulation and the Pareto Rule (In Journal of Economic Theory, 1979.)

 

(II) Fairness, equity and envy

Fairness and Envy (With Alan Kirman, in The American Economic Review, 1974.)

Envy, Wealth, and Class Hierarchies (With David Weiman, in Journal of Public Economics, 1979.)

Envy, Wealth, and Class Hierarchies (With David Weiman, in Journal of Public Economics, 1979.)

Equity (In The New Palgrave, 1987.)

 

(III) Arrow's theorem, social choice, voting theory, strategy-proofness, manipulation

A Very Unsubtle Version of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem (In Economic Inquiry, 1974.)

Manipulating Voting Procedures (In Economic Inquiry, 1979.)

Nonmanipulable Multi-Valued Social Decision Functions (In Public Choice, 1979.)

Manipulation and the Pareto Rule (In Journal of Economic Theory, 1979.)

Strongly Nonmanipulable Multi-Valued Collective Choice Rules (In Public Choice, 1980.)

Utility Functions for Public Outputs and Majority Voting (With Behzad Diba, in Journal of Public Economics, 1984.)

Existence of Electoral Equilibria With Probabilistic Voting (With Kyung-Ho Lee, in Journal of Public Economics, 1988.)

Welfare Economics (In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, 2008.)

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem: Two Simple Single-Profile Versions (With Roberto Serrano, in Harvard College Mathematics Review, 2008.)

 

(IV) Voting and growth of government

A Model of Majority Voting and Growth in Government Expenditure (In Public Choice, 1985.)

 

(V) Economics and the law

Kaldor-Hicks Compensation (In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, 1998.)

Pareto Optimality (In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, 1998.)

A Simple Model of Efficient Tort Liability Rules (With John Frost, in International Review of Law and Economics, 1998.)

The Hand Rule and United States v. Carroll Towing Co. Reconsidered (With Jeonghyun Kim, in American Law and Economics Review, 2005.)

Victim or Injurer, Small Car or SUV: Tort Liability Rules Under Role-Type Uncertainty (With Jeonghyun Kim, International Reviwe of Law and Economics, 2006.)

Comparative Vigilance (With Ram Singh, in American Law and Economics Review, 2009.)

A Simple Guide to Comparative Vigilance (With Ram Singh, in Asian Journal of Law and Economics, 2011.)

 

(VI) Value of life

Buying Time: A Model of the Dollar Value of Extra Years of Life
(Revised version of Working Paper No. 95-31)
Department of Economics, Brown University
September 19, 1996.

Probabilistic Value of Life vs. Deterministic Value of Time
Working Paper No. 97-22
Department of Economics, Brown University
September 1997.

Value of Life, Value of Time, and Constant Relative Risk Aversion Utility
Working Paper No. 1998-13
Department of Economics, Brown University
July 1998.

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