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A growing economic literature stresses the importance of relative comparisons, e.g., for savings and consumption or happiness. In this literature it is usually assumed that reference standards against which people compare themselves are exogenously given. In contrast, findings from social...
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We study the incentives of parents to invest in their children when these investments improve their marriage prospects, in a frictionless marriage market with non-transferable utility. Stochastic returns to investment eliminate the multiplicity of equilibria that plagues models with...
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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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