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Matching as a cure for underprovision of voluntary public good supply: Analysis and an example

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk - 2011

Matching mechanisms are regarded as an important instrument to bring about Pareto optimal allocations in a public good … interior matching equilibrium, however, emerges only under very special conditions. But we show in this note that corner …

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Potentially harmful international cooperation on global public good provision

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk - 2012

-called matching approaches. Matching schemes are regarded as providing a promising approach to overcome undersupply of public goods … like climate protection. The functioning of matching mechanisms in a setting with an incomplete agreement, i.e. a contract … by analyzing incomplete matching agreements in the context of international climate protection. We analyse their effect …

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Pareto Improvement through Unilateral Matching of Public Good Contributions: The Role of Commitment

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Peters, Wolfgang; … - 2014

When providing public goods through voluntary contributions, a donor may introduce unilateral matching in order to … reduce underprovision of the public good and thus inefficiency. By itself, however, matching benefits the donor but harms the …

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Do slotting allowances harm retail competition?

Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle - 2006

Slotting allowances are fees paid by manufacturers to get access to retailers' shelf space. Both in the USA and Europe, the use of slotting allowances has attracted attention in the general press as well as among policy makers and economists. One school of thought claims that slotting allowances...

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Competition for viewers and advertisers in a TV oligopoly

Kind, Hans Jarle; Nilssen, Tore; Sørgard, Lars - 2006

We consider a model of a TV oligopoly where TV channels transmit advertising and viewers dislike such commercials. We show that advertisers make a lower profit the larger the number of TV channels. If TV channels are sufficiently close substitutes, there will be underprovision of advertising...

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Newspapers and advertising: the effects of ad-valorem taxation under duopoly

Kind, Hans Jarle; Schjelderup, Guttorm; Stähler, Frank - 2007

Newspapers are two-sided platforms that sell their product both to readers and advertisers. Media firms in general, and newspapers in particular, are considered important providers of information, culture and language in most countries. Newspapers are therefore given preferential tax treatment....

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Equal sacrifice and fair burden sharing in a public goods economy

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Peters, Wolfgang - 2007

Applying a willingness to pay approach known from contingent valuation in environmental economics, we develop an ordinally based measure for the size of individual sacrifice that is connected with an agent's contribution to a public good. We construct a selection mechanism that picks the unique...

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Resale price maintenance and restrictions on dominant firm and industry-wide adoption

Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Schaffer, Greg - 2007

This paper examines the use of market-share thresholds (safe harbors) in evaluating whether a given vertical practice should be challenged. Such thresholds are typically found in vertical restraints guidelines (e.g., the 2000 Guidelines for the European Commission and the 1985 Guidelines for the...

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Discounting and welfare analysis over time: choosing the [eta]

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Schumacher, Jan - 2008

Based on the Ramsey equation and an ethically motivated rejection of pure utility time discount, the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change concentrates on the use of the elasticity of marginal utility ç in the intergenerational social welfare function. We support this position by...

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Efficiency enhancing taxation in two-sided markets

Kind, Hans Jarle; Koethenbuerger, Marko; Schjelderup, … - 2008

This paper examines the efficient provision of goods in two-sided markets and characterizes optimal specific and ad-valorem taxes. We show that (i) a monopoly may have too high output compared to the social optimum; (ii) output may be reduced by imposing negative value-added taxes (subsidy) or...

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