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We focus in this paper on the effects of court errors on the optimal sharing of liability between firms and financiers …, governments and courts we show, through numerical simulations, the distortions in liability sharing between firms and financiers … firm innocent of inappropriate care) errors. This role is considered in a context where liability sharing is already …
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An economy with clean and dirty intermediate inputs may fall into a trap characterized by low environmental quality and low life expectancy, while the others converge to opposite steady states. We propose new strategies towards sustainable growth. They include: (i) taxes (subsidies) imposed on...
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costs entirely mitigates the externality. Our data reveal a robust and persistent preference for avoiding negative social …
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We investigate externalities in higher education enrollment over the course of development in a two-sector model. Each … acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit productivity externalities in the size of the skill-specific labor and in the …
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internalize consumption externalities. It is demonstrated that the optimal second-best tax on an externality-generating good …
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Recent literature has shown that all-pay auctions raise more money for charity than winner-pay auctions. We demonstrate that the first and second-price winner-pay auctions generate higher revenue than first-price all-pay auctions when bidders are sufficiently asymmetric. To prove it, we consider...
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Following the Brent Spar controversy, the OSPAR countries reached a unanimous agreement in 1998 for the future rules for disposal of petroleum installations. The vast majority of existing offshore installations will be re-used or returned to shore for recycling or disposal. For installations...
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scope of inefficient migration. This positive welfare effect may significantly reduce abatement costs of pollution and calls …
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This paper considers investments in cost-reducing technology in the context of contributions to climate protection. Contributions to mitigating climate change are analyzed in a two-period model where later contributions can be based on better information, but delaying the contribution to the...
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This paper analyses the formation of international environmental agreements (IEAs) under uncertainty, focusing on the … of IEA formation when countries are risk neutral and another that explores the implications of uncertainty and risk …
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