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Obligation Rules for Minimum Cost Spanning Tree Situations and their Monotonicity Properties

Norde, Henk; Tijs, S.H.; Brânzei, R.; Moretti, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

We introduce the class of Obligation rules for minimum cost spanning tree situations.The main result of this paper is that such rules are cost monotonic and induce also population monotonic allocation schemes.Another characteristic of Obligation rules is that they assign to a minimum cost...

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Optimal Enforcement Policies (Crackdowns) on a Drug Market

Kort, Peter; Feichtinger, G.; Hartl, R.F.; Haunschmied, J.L. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1996

In this paper an optimal control model is presented to design enforcement programs minimizing the social costs from …

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Landfill Construction and Capacity Expansion

Andre, F.J.; Cerda, E. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

We study the optimal capacity and lifetime of landfills taking into account their sequential nature.Such an optimal capacity is characterized by the so-called Optimal Capacity Condition.Particular versions of this condition are obtained for two alternative settings: first, if all the landfills...

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The P-Value for Cost Sharing in Minimum Cost Spanning Tree Situations

Norde, Henk; Brânzei, R.; Moretti, S.; Tijs, S.H. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

The aim of this paper is to introduce and axiomatically characterize the P-value as a rule to solve the cost sharing problem in minimum cost spanning tree (mcst) situations.The P-value is related to the Kruskal algorithm for finding an mcst.Moreover, the P-value leads to a core allocation of the...

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The measurement of household cost functions : Revealed preference versus subjective measures

Kapteyn, A.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1994

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Why the Marriage Squeeze Cannot Cause Dowry Inflation

Anderson, K.S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000

It has been argued that rising dowry payments are caused by population growth.According to that explanation, termed the `marriage squeeze', a population increase leads to an excess supply of brides since men marry younger women.As a result, dowry payments rise in order to clear the marriage...

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Why Dowry Payments Declined With Modernisation in Europe but are Rising in India

Anderson, K.S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

In contrast to most dowry oriented societies where payments have declined with modernisation, those in India have undergone significant inflation over the last five decades.This paper explains the difference between these two experiences by focusing on the role played by caste.The theoretical...

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Efficiency and separability in economies with a trade center

Ruys, Pieter H.M.; Diamantaras, D.; Gilles, R.P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1994

mechanism is modeled as an abstract trade center exhibiting setup costs, access costs and linear transaction costs. Exactly one …

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Efficiency Costs of Meeting Industry-Distributional Constraints under Environmental Permits and Taxes

Bovenberg, A.L.Bovenberg; Goulder, L.H.; Gurney, D.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

analyze the e.- ciency costs implied by the distributional constraint that adverse impacts on profits in particular industries … must be avoided.Both models indicate that the e.ciency cost implied by this constraint dwarfs the other e.ciency costs when … this constraint diminishes relative to the other e.ciency costs of pollution-control.We also calculate the compensation …

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Campaign Spending with Office-Seeking Politicians, Rational Voters and Multiple Lobbies

Prat, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998

I introduce a microfounded model of campaign finance with office-seeking politicians, a continuum of voters, and a large number of heterogeneous lobbies. Lobbies make contributions to politicians according to a common agency framework. Politicians use contributions to finance their electoral...

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