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In this paper, we propose a method for finding policy function improvements for a single agent in high-dimensional Markov dynamic optimization problems, focusing in particular on dynamic games. Our approach combines ideas from literatures in Machine Learning and the econometric analysis of games...
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technologies which reduce the cost of pollution abatement. The innovating firm can patent this innovation and use a licensing fee … to generate revenue. In a world of certainty, the first best level of innovation and abatement can be supported by either … a pollution tax or a marketable permit. However, the returns to the innovator from innovation are not the same under the …
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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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We examine the role of consumption externalities in the demand for pharmaceuticals at both the brand level and over a … equations describing the dynamic adjustment process. We find that consumption externalities influence both valuations and rates …
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capital gain position of the fund. This paper's simulations show that these externalities are important determinants of the …
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This paper discusses the definition and identification of external treatment effects and experimental designs capable of detecting these effects. External effects occur when the outcome of a given individual is affected by the treatment assignments of other individuals. The paper argues that...
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externalities on other states in that the effects of the apportionment formula on aggregate employment is zero. Every job gained …
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This paper builds two simple general equilibrium models to demonstrate the equivalence between the Pigovian tax and the combination of a presumptive tax and an environmental subsidy. A presumptive tax is a tax that is imposed under the presumption that all production uses a dirty technology or...
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, and instruments, this paper analyzes the role of dynamic externalities for individual industries. Key issues examined … include the role of externalities from own industry concentration (localization, or MAR externalities) versus the role of … externalities from overall diversity of the local environment (urbanization, or Jacobs externalities). In contrast to previous …
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subject to dynamic increasing returns, and pecuniary externalities that result from the factor substitution in the final goods …
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