Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/55226 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series No. IF36V1
Publisher: 
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Finanzwirtschaft, Braunschweig
Abstract: 
We conduct a general analysis of the effects of inequality aversion on decisions by homogeneous players in static and dynamic games. We distinguish between direct and indirect effects of inequality aversion. Direct effects are present when a player changes his action to affect disutility caused by inequality. Indirect effects occur when the own action is changed to affect other players' actions. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the occurrence of either effect. Moreover, we examine the direction of the effects. Whereas indirect effects induce players to internalize externalities they impose on others, direct effects act in the opposite direction.
Subjects: 
inequality aversion
externalities
direct effects
indirect effects
JEL: 
C72
D62
D63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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