• Economic Integration, Non-tariff Barriers and Social Welfare 

      Calo-Blanco, Aitor; Mendez Naya, Jose (Center for Economic Integration, 2005)
      [Abstract] This paper analyses the extent to which preferential trade agreements can lead to the substitution of non-tariff barriers for tariffs, and the effects of non-tariff barriers on welfare and other parameters. Its ...
    • Fair Compensation With Different Social Concerns for Forgiveness 

      Calo-Blanco, Aitor (Springer, 2016)
      [Abstract] Forgiveness is an ethical ideal that advocates that a fresh start should be conferred upon those individuals who have changed their preferences and regret their previous decisions. Despite the ethical debate ...
    • Fair Income Tax With Endogenous Productivities and a Fresh Start 

      Calo-Blanco, Aitor (Springer, 2022)
      [Abstract] This paper considers a model in which agents have heterogeneous preferences over labour and consumption. Additionally, they also differ in their earning skills, which are a function of both an innate ability and ...
    • Fairness, Freedom, and Forgiveness in Health Care 

      Calo-Blanco, Aitor (Springer, 2014)
      [Abstract] This paper focuses on the optimal allocation between health and lifestyle choices when society is concerned about forgiveness. Based on the idea of fresh starts, we construct a social ordering that permits us ...
    • Health and Fairness With Other-Regarding Preferences 

      Calo-Blanco, Aitor (Springer, 2020)
      [Abstract] This paper explores how to rank social allocations when individuals have other-regarding preferences (ORPs). Unlike the few existing studies on this issue, we focus on two different private goods, only one of ...
    • Health, Responsibility and Taxation With a Fresh Start 

      Calo-Blanco, Aitor (Springer, 2017)
      [Abstract] In a model where individuals differ in both their health care needs and their lifestyle preferences, we examine the fair provision of health care when those who regret their initial decisions are granted a fresh ...
    • Integración económica, barreras no arancelarias y bienestar social 

      Calo-Blanco, Aitor; Mendez Naya, Jose (Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Turismo. Secretaría de Estado de Comercio, 2004)
      [Resumen] El objetivo de este trabajo es el de analizar en qué medida los acuerdos de comercio preferencial conducirán a una sustitución de las barreras arancelarias por otras de tipo no arancelario, así como los efectos ...
    • Natural Disasters and Indicators of Social Cohesion 

      Calo-Blanco, Aitor; Kovarik, Jaromir; Mengel, Friederike; Romero-Ciavatto, J. Gabriel (Public Library of Science, 2017)
      [Abstract] Do adversarial environmental conditions create social cohesion? We provide new answers to this question by exploiting spatial and temporal variation in exposure to earthquakes across Chile. Using a variety of ...
    • On the Welfare Loss Caused by Inequality of Opportunity 

      Calo-Blanco, Aitor; García Pérez, José Ignacio (Springer, 2014)
      [Abstract] Based on the ethical principle of equality of opportunity, this paper presents a measure of the welfare loss that is caused by an unfair distribution of a particular outcome (income, health, education, etc). The ...