Wednesday 12 March 2025 12:15-13:15,
UiS, Ullandhaug Campus, Elise Ottesen-Jensens hus,
EOJ-276/277 / Zoom.
An Economics and Finance Seminar with Frikk Nesje from the University of Copenhagen.
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Welcome to the UiS School of Business and Law Research Seminar in Economics and Finance. The seminar is open for all interested.
- Date: Wednesday, March 12th
- Time: 12:15-13:15.
- Place: University of Stavanger School of Business and Law, Ullandhaug Campus, Elise Ottesen-Jensens hus, room EOJ 276/277 and on Zoom
- Seminar guest: Frikk Nesje, University of Copenhagen
Link to Zoom meeting
Meeting-ID: 627 9002 4107
Password: 042919
- Title: Intergenerational Discounting and Inequality
Abstract:
We study all theories of justice that disentangle ethical views on intergenerational discounting and intergenerational inequality. Each "modular" social welfare function is uniquely identified by a time-discounting function--capturing attitudes toward time--and an aggregator function--capturing attitudes toward inequality.
Our axiomatic characterization identifies the properties and establishes the limits of disentangling discounting and inequality. Our theories include as special cases the most common welfare criteria adopted in the literature, while uncovering unexplored (and yet tractable) families of alternative criteria.