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The Economics of Residential Solid Waste Management

Kinnaman, Thomas C. - 1999

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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Garbage and Recycling in Communities with Curbside Recycling and Unit-Based Pricing

Kinnaman, Thomas C. - 1997

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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The Case for a Two-Part Instrument : Presumptive Tax and Environmental Subsidy

Fullerton, Don - 1997

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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How a Fee Per-Unit Garbage Affects Aggregate Recycling in a Model with Heterogeneous Households

Kinnaman, Thomas C. - 1994

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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Garbage, Recycling, and Illicit Burning or Dumping

Fullerton, Don - 1993

Additional solid waste disposal imposes resource and environmental costs, but most residents still pay no additional fee per marginal unit of garbage collection. In a simple model with garbage and recycling as the only two disposal options, we show that the optimizing fee for garbage collection...

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Competitive Risk Sharing Contracts with One-Sided Commitment

Krueger, Dirk - 2003

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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Aggregate Consequences of Limited Contract Enforceability

Cooley, Thomas - 2003

We study a general equilibrium model in which entrepreneurs finance investment with optimal financial contracts. Because of enforceability problems, contracts are constrained efficient. We show that limited enforceability amplifies the impact of technological innovations on aggregate output....

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On the Writing and the Interpretation of Contracts

Shavell, Steven - 2003

argument is the written contract and whose value is another contract, the interpreted contract, which is what actually governs …

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Incentive-Compatible Guaranteed Renewable Health Insurance

Herring, Bradley - 2003

Multi-period theoretical models of renewable insurance display front-loaded premium schedules that both cover lifetime total claims of low-risk and high-risk individuals and provide an incentive for those who remain low-risk to continue to purchase the policy. In practice, however, an age...

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Contracting Over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge : Intellectual Property and Academic Publication

Gans, Joshua S. - 2013

This paper provides a theoretical investigation of the tension over knowledge disclosure between firms and their scientific employees. While empirical research suggests that scientists exhibit a "taste for science," such open disclosures can limit a firm's competitive advantage or ability to...

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