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A substantial literature examines second-best environmental policy, focusing particularly on how the Pigouvian directive that marginal taxes should equal marginal external harms needs to be modified in light of the preexisting distortion due to labor income taxation. Additional literature is...
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Numerous recent studies have indicated that interactions with a tax-distorted labor market increase the cost of pollution regulation. However, these studies have made restrictive assumptions regarding individual preferences and have ignored key links between pollution, human health, and labor...
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externalities. Agents in this model are characterized by an N-dimensional skill vector corresponding to intrinsic abilities in N …. Because externalities change the relative returns to different activities, corrective taxes induce changes in the across …
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The neoclassical growth accounting model used by the BLS to sort out the contributions of the various sources of growth in the U.S. economy accords a relatively small role to education. This result seems at variance with the revolution in information technology and the emergence of the...
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Theory predicts that in markets with increasing returns, the number of differentiated products and resulting consumer … externalities', an increase in the size of the market brings forth additional products valued by others with similar tastes. But who … benefits whom? We examine the patterns of and mechanisms for preference externalities between black and white and between …
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Optimal policy rules--including those regarding income taxation, commodity taxation, public goods, and externalities … preferences for commodities, public goods, and externalities are heterogeneous. When preference differences are observable …
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-disorder and income-creation externalities. Two bordering casinos compete with each other for the external source of demand of …
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Products with negative externalities are often subject to regulations that limit competition. The single-product case …
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This essay discusses the reasons for and implications of the decline in real interest rates around the world over the past several decades. It suggests that the decline in interest rates is largely explicable from trends in saving, growth, and markups. In this environment, greater government...
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This paper shows that the effect of capital account liberalization on growth depends upon the environment in which that policy occurs. A theoretical model demonstrates the possibility of an inverted-U shaped relationship between the responsiveness of growth to capital account liberalization and...
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