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This paper examines the regulation of technological innovation direction under uncertainty about potential harms. We … in resource allocation across research paths, challenging common intuitions about diversification. These insights have …
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dispersed environmental externalities with disclosure regulation to create public pressure reduces their environmental impact …
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To understand the disruption and implications of distributed ledger technologies for financial reporting and auditing, we analyze firm misreporting, auditor monitoring and competition, and regulatory policy in a unified model. A federated blockchain for financial reporting and auditing can...
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case and may affect the allocation of litigation costs. Specifically, if the parties litigate to judgment, then the … allocation of litigation costs may depend on how the judgment compares with the special offer. This paper develops a model of …
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This paper explores a series of general-equilibrium models in which people can choose to be either producers or predators, and in which producers can allocate their resources either to production or to guarding their production against predators. The analysis shows how the ratio of predators to...
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Changes in government spending often lead to significant shifts in demand across sectors. This paper analyzes the effects of sector-specific changes in government spending in a two-sector dynamic general equilibrium model in which the reallocation of capital across sectors is costly. The...
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similarly but differ in their preference intensities. We characterize optimal allocation rules when individual preferences are …
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It is well known that a domestic resource discovery gives rise to wealth effects that cause a squeeze of the tradeable good sector of an open economy. The decline of the manufacturing sector following an energy discovery has been termed the "Dutch disease," and has been investigated in many...
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This paper presents estimates of static and dynamic general equilibrium resource allocation effects for four … dynamic resource allocation effects are sensitive to the choice of the replacement tax, while static gains are reasonably …
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze systematically the production of effort and its allocation among different … of the production and allocation of effort by a free person. Section III applies this analysis to the value placed on … wage rates offered and the effort supplied by their workers. Section, analyzes the production and allocation of effort by …
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