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You Owe Me
Malmendier, Ulrike M.; Schmidt, Klaus - CESifo - 2012
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 informational effects, small gifts strongly...
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Public Good Provision with Robust Decision Making
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Economides, George; … - CESifo - 2012
In this paper, we study a two-country dynamic setup with environmental externalities and potential model …
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Emissions Taxes and Abatement Regulation under Uncertainty
Christiansen, Vidar; Smith, Stephen - CESifo - 2013
We consider environmental regulation in a context where firms invest in abatement technology under conditions of uncertainty about subsequent abatement cost, but can subsequently adjust output in the light of true marginal abatement cost. Where an emission tax is the only available instrument,...
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Trade Restrictiveness Indices in Presence of Externalities: An Application to Non-Tariff Measures
Beghin, John; Disdier, Anne-Célia; Marette, Stéphan - CESifo - 2014
demand by reducing negative externalities. We apply the framework to the database of Kee et al. (2009) and derive ad valorem …
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Environmental Tax Reform in a Federation with Rent-Induced Migration
Garon, Jean-Denis; Séguin, Charles - CESifo - 2015
We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...
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Conservation Contracts and Political Regimes
Harstad, Bård; Mideksa, Torben - CESifo - 2015
Motivated by tropical deforestation, we analyze (i) a novel theory of resource extraction, (ii) the optimal …
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Learning Abatement Costs: On the Dynamics of Optimal Regulation of Experience Goods
Hintermann, Beat; Lange, Andreas - CESifo - 2012
We study the introduction of new technologies when their costs are subject to idiosyncratic uncertainty and can only be fully learned through individual experience. We set up a dynamic model of clean experience goods that replace old polluting consumption options and show how optimal regulation...
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Pension, Fertility, and Education
Meier, Volker; Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2005
A pay-as-you-go pension scheme is associated with positive externalities of having children and providing them with …
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Pareto-Improving Intergenerational Transfers
Wigger, Berthold U. - CESifo - 2000
growth and harm future generations. On the other hand, competitive equilibria are inefficient if externalities sustain long …
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Subsidizing National Champions: An Evolutionary Perspective
Aubert, Cécile; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2008
externalities appear along the lifecycle. In a simple model, we show that it may be efficient to subsidize innovative firms in their … early stages or to protect mature firms from competition to appropriate these externalities. However, non …-benevolent politicians may not choose efficient policies. Real-world examples indicate that politicians tend to concentrate on externalities …
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