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-dependent externalities to the non-consumers. Resale markets for such goods are analysed in various institutional settings with complete …
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I consider a model where a principal decides whether to produce one unit of an indivisible good (e.g. a private school) and which characteristics it will contain (emphasis on language or science). Agents (parents) are differentiated along two substitutable dimensions: a vertical parameter that...
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-constrained monetary economy with heterogenous agents and increasing returns to scale due to labour and capital productive externalities … (arbitrarily) small degree of (total) externalities provided that the share of labour externalities exceed a lower bound, which …
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optimal tax could exceed marginal external damages, which implies that externalities generated by oligopolistic firms could be …
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-fulfilling expectations. We consider an overlapping generations economy with capital externalities and we focus on underemployment equilibria …. We find that for wide regions in the parameter space, including an arbitrarily small degree of externalities and a Cobb … that the role of unions in shaping local dynamics depends on technology (externalities and factor's substitutability …
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In many cultures and industries gifts are given in order to influence the recipient, often at the expense of a third party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without incentive or in-formational effects, small gifts strongly...
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-enhancing from the point of view of aggregate world welfare because it helps alleviate externalities arising from cross …
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externalities. We show that the hold-up problem, which occurs if non-verifiable investments have external effects and parties cannot …
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There were enormous differences in the revenues from the European ‘third generation’ (3G, or ‘MTS’) mobile-phone license auctions, from 20 Euros per capita in Switzerland to 650 Euros per capita in the UK, though the values of the licences sold were similar. Poor auction designs in some...
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This paper provides an elementary, non-technical, survey of auction theory, by introducing and describing some of the critical papers in the subject. The most important of these are reproduced in a companion book, The Economic Theory of Auctions, Paul Klemperer (ed.), Edward Elgar (pub.),...
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