Decomposing bivariate dominance for social welfare comparisons

Tina Gottschalk (), Troels Martin Range (), Peter Sudhölter and Lars Peter Østerdal
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Tina Gottschalk: Department of Business and Economics, Postal: University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark, http://www.sdu.dk/staff/tigo
Troels Martin Range: Department of Business and Economics, Postal: University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark, http://www.sdu.dk/staff/tra

No 12/2015, Discussion Papers on Economics from University of Southern Denmark, Department of Economics

Abstract: The lower orthant dominance relation is frequently used for multidimensional social welfare comparisons. Recently it has been shown that bivariate dominance can be characterized in terms of elementary mass transfer operations. We provide an algorithm which explicitly decomposes the mass transfers into welfare differences and inequality differences.

Keywords: Social welfare; lower orthant dominance; first order dominance; algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C63 D63 I31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2015-06-30
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