研討日期

2006年12月16日上午10:00 ~ 12:00

研討地點

台大社會科學院第二教室

討論文獻

題目

作者

文獻出處

決策機制與品質標準

許淑媖

Working paper

報告人

許淑媖

參加人員

梁文榮、吳芝文、王光正、許淑媖、彭正浩、李玫郁、蔡明芳、李依珊、周冰瑤

討論提要

We observe from the real world that in democratic countries policies are made by citizens, either directly by citizens or indirectly by legislators.  While in the trade and industrial organization literature, it is commonly assumed that government acts as a benevolent dictator, setting policies in pursuit of social welfare.  By comparing the phenomenon of real society and the literature, we observe that there is a gap in between and thus we feel curious about the policy outcome in a democratic country.  We derive the following two results that the taste preference of the elected legislator may be different from that of the median voter, and that the policy is the highest under the decision mechanism of a benevolent dictator, followed by that of democratic society, and then by that of laisser faire.

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