Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46421 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3427
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We analyze normatively determined distributions of language rights in multilingual settings. It is shown in a welfare-maximizing model where rights today influence the status of a language in the future, that the 'naive' ex ante cost-benefit analysis has to be augmented in various directions. This has its roots in the dynamic aspect of the rights and the resulting endogeneity of preferences as well as in the discrete character of rights. It is shown how efficiency and distribution considerations are affected by these considerations.
Subjects: 
minority rights
changeable preferences
dynamic preferences
welfare function
second-best analysis
overlapping generations
JEL: 
D63
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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