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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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externalities. We show that the hold-up problem, which occurs if non-verifiable investments have external effects and parties cannot …
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A 'folk theorem' originating, among others, in the work of Stiglitz maintains that competitive equilibria are always or 'generically' inefficient (unless contracts directly specify consumption levels as in Prescott and Townsend, thus bypassing trading in anonymous markets). This paper critically...
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Unilateral second-best carbon taxes are analysed in a two-period, two-country model with international trade in final goods, oil and bonds. Acceleration of global warming resulting from a future carbon tax is large if the price elasticities of oil demand are large and that of oil supply is...
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when old. Externalities are caused by a polluting factor. The revenue from pollution taxation, as well as capital …
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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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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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