Competition, Welfare, and Competition Policy -- In What Sense is the Nash Solution Fair? -- Utility Invariance in Non-Cooperative Games -- Compensated Demand and Inverse Demand Functions: A Duality Approach -- Shadow Prices for a Nonconvex Public Technology in the Presence of Private Constant Returns -- A Glance at Some Fundamental Public Economics Issues Through a Parametric Lens -- Rent Seeking in Public Procurement -- A New Subjective Approach to Equivalence Scales: An Empirical Investigation -- Utility Independence In Health Profiles: An Empirical Study -- Constructing a Preference-Oriented Index of Environmental Quality -- Measuring and Evaluating Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from Students’ Questionnaires -- Equity, Fiscal Equalization, and Fiscal Mobility -- Comparing Theories: What are We Looking for? -- Overbidding in First Price Private Value Auctions Revisited: Implications of a Multi-Unit Auctions Experiment -- Modelling Judgmental Forecasts under Tabular and Graphical Data Presentation Formats -- Understanding Conjunction Fallacies: An Evidence Theory Model of Representativeness -- The Riskless Utility Mapping of Expected Utility and All Theories Imposing the Dominance Principle: Its Inability to Include Loans, Commitments Even with Fully Described Decision Trees.

"The Festschrift in honor of Christian Seidl" gathers a group of prominent authors being experts in areas like Public Economics, Welfare Economics, Social Choice Theory, Public Choice Theory, Decision Theory and Experimental Economics. Christian Seidl, known as one of the editors of the three-volume "Handbook of Utility Theory", has dedicated his research to utility-theoretic fundamentals, and the welfare implications of individual and group decision making. During the last decade, he has turned part of his attention to a research tool that has gained a lot of importance in economics: the laboratory experiment. The Advances in Public Economics: Utility Choice and Welfare is an attempt to illuminate all facets of Christian Seidl’s research agenda by presenting an ambitious collection of both purely theoretical and experimental papers on utility, choice and welfare, written by his closest friends and colleagues.