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percent of mean income. In this paper we use economic theory to determine the relation between the appropriate make …
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This paper studies how litigation and settlement behavior is affected by agents motivated by spiteful preferences under the American and the English fee-shifting rule. We conduct an experiment and find that litigation expenditures and settlement requests are higher for more spiteful...
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We investigate yardstick competition between local jurisdictions in which pure rent-seeking incumbents undertake an identical infrastructure project choosing be- tween two contractual arrangements with different financing profiles, namely traditional procurement (TP) and public-private...
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We develop a dynamic regulation game for a stock externality under asymmetric information and future market uncertainty …. Within this framework, regulation is characterized as the implementation of a welfare-maximization program conditional on …-consistent policy rules that implement the stochastic first best as long as a future market exists. We apply our theory to carbon …
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In this paper, we study regulation of externalities involving many small-scale polluters, where the damages from … such regulations should be designed and combined. We find that the optimal regulation design crucially depends on the type … technology regulation encourages cleaner technologies in high damage areas, but discourages their use in low damage areas …
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materialize. Financial regulation encouraging the decarbonization of the banks' balance sheets via tax-subsidy schemes …
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Firms often try to influence individuals that, like regulators, are tasked with advising or deciding on behalf of a third party. In a dynamic regulatory setting, we show that a firm may prefer to capture regulators through the promise of a lucrative future job opportunity (i.e., the...
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commentators have focused on the anticompetitive potential of envelopment, and some have argued for regulation of platforms because … of that concern. These calls for regulation are not supported by robust formal analysis or comprehensive empirical …
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assess the effectiveness and efficiency of these standards, which are the centerpiece of US Clean Air Act regulation of …
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This paper investigates whether a “Golden Rule” of regulation of an infectious disease may be elicited that balances …
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