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This paper provides a broad overview of recent trends in solid waste and recycling, related public policy issues, and the economics literature devoted to these topics. Public attention to solid waste and recycling has increased dramatically over the past decade both in the United States and in...
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This paper estimates the impact of a user fee and a curbside recycling program on garbage and recycling amounts, allowing for the possibility of endogenous policy choices. Previous estimates of the effects of these policies could be biased if unobserved variables such as local preference for the...
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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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This paper develops a utility maximizing model of household choice among garbage disposal, recycling, and littering. The impact of a user fee for garbage collection is modelled for heterogeneous households with different preferences for recycling. The model explains (1) why some households...
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efficiency is not attainable. We show that contracts involving mutual control might sometimes be superior to the best contract …
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This paper examines the sharing of risk under three different remedies for breach of contract. The risk considered …. By means of a numerical example, it is shown that use of the prevailing remedy for breach of contract -- the expectation …
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We consider a buyer and seller who contract over a service. The contract encourages investment and provides a reference … point for the transaction. In normal times the contract works well. But with some probability an abnormal state occurs and … guiding principles such as loyalty and equity in their contract can help. We provide supporting evidence in the form of case …
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. If when an employer and worker establish a relationship they cannot contract on the output and profits of the worker …'s prospective new firm, the employer counters by inducing the worker to sign a contract that prohibits him from competing or …
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We evaluate the asset pricing implications of a class of models in which risk sharing is imperfect because of limited enforcement of intertemporal contracts. Lustig (2004) has shown that in such a model the asset pricing kernel can be written as a simple function of the aggregate consumption...
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given period, after having observed her income, the agent can walk away from the contract, while the intermediary cannot, i … intermediaries. Insurance can be provided because in an equilibrium contract an up-front payment effectively locks in the agent with … an intermediary. We then show that our contract economy is equivalent to a consumption-savings economy with one …
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