Showing 1 - 10 of 46
, there is one essential factor that affects family size throughout the world. This is education. School has decreased … and scarcely without modernization, except for the school itself. Education, as we know it, preceded industrialization and … intrusive urbanization in Europe too. It was not until very late (1870) that attempts at introducing compulsory education were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230910
welfare effects of small policy changes in the presence of transport externalities. The model incorporates three types of … externalities: congestion, which has a feedback effect on the behaviour of the economic agents, air pollution and accidents. The … the equity effects of the policy reforms. The second contribution is related to the way in which the externalities are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385363
encompasses many economic models with externalities and outside options. We show that when outside options are pure (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385394
This paper analyzes incentives for polluting firms to exchange abatement cost information under the non-linear pollution tax scheme (‘differential tax’) introduced by Kim and Chang [J. Regul. Econom. 5, 1993, 193-197]. It shows that polluting firms have - under mild conditions - an incentive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385420
and/or geographical (regional and interregional) externalities. The results point out that while education is a … education between migrants and non-migrants. The paper also finds that household, regional, and interregional externalities …Relatively little attention has been paid to the role that externalities play in determining the pecuniary returns to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540408
externalities. In the context of the partition function, it is shown that any member of this class of sharing schemes leads to the … sharing scheme is particularly powerful for economic problems that are characterized by positive externalities from coalition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489581
We study coalitional games where the proceeds from cooperation depend on the entire coalition structure. The coalition structure core (Kóczy, 2007) is a generalisation of the coalition structure core for such games. We introduce a noncooperative, sequential coalition formation model and show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502122
. We approach this omission by analyzing the role of positive and negative externalities of link formation. This yields … general results that relate situations of positive externalities with stable networks that cannot be “too dense” in a well …-defined sense, while situations with negative externalities tend to induce “too dense” networks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008043
externalities. These case studies for Belgium confirm earlier results of the ExternE project that external environmental costs of … externalities of urban peak traffic are 2 to 4 times higher than for normal urban driving conditions. Finally, it calculates which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423053
Approximately $30 billion (2000$) has been spent on Superfund clean-ups of hazardous waste sites, and remediation efforts are incomplete at roughly half of the 1,500 Superfund sites. This study estimates the effect of Superfund clean-ups on local housing price appreciation. We compare housing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423096