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We revisit the question of the efficiency of individual decisions to be protected against crime for the cases of both …. A decrease in the global crime payoff is detrimental to a victim if protection is observable, while it is beneficial …
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-dependent externalities to the non-consumers. Resale markets for such goods are analysed in various institutional settings with complete …
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I consider a model where a principal decides whether to produce one unit of an indivisible good (e.g. a private school) and which characteristics it will contain (emphasis on language or science). Agents (parents) are differentiated along two substitutable dimensions: a vertical parameter that...
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-constrained monetary economy with heterogenous agents and increasing returns to scale due to labour and capital productive externalities … (arbitrarily) small degree of (total) externalities provided that the share of labour externalities exceed a lower bound, which …
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optimal tax could exceed marginal external damages, which implies that externalities generated by oligopolistic firms could be …
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-fulfilling expectations. We consider an overlapping generations economy with capital externalities and we focus on underemployment equilibria …. We find that for wide regions in the parameter space, including an arbitrarily small degree of externalities and a Cobb … that the role of unions in shaping local dynamics depends on technology (externalities and factor's substitutability …
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In many cultures and industries gifts are given in order to influence the recipient, often at the expense of a third party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without incentive or in-formational effects, small gifts strongly...
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-enhancing from the point of view of aggregate world welfare because it helps alleviate externalities arising from cross …
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externalities. We show that the hold-up problem, which occurs if non-verifiable investments have external effects and parties cannot …
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We model the different ways in which precedents and contract standardization shape the joint development of markets and the law. In a setting where more resourceful parties can distort contract enforcement, we find that the introduction of standard contracts reduces enforcement distortions...
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