Recycling waste from used goods can substitute for scarce raw materials and reduce resource dependence. This paper … presents a model of waste collection, recycling and final goods production using raw and recycled materials. Non-recycled waste … recycling firms to compensate for the savings in disposal costs. We study trade between resource poor economies exporting final …

cycle. Decreasing discounting helps a canonical life-cycle model to explain the household saving puzzles of undersaving when …

welfare maximizing tax structure. We calibrate the model to German household data and a 30 percent emission reduction goal … revenue via household-specific transfers is the first-best policy. Equal per-capita transfers do not suffer from informational …

asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare …

a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor …

, desired working hours, and household debt, but have only small effects on expected spending. We provide correlational and … household exposure to stock market crashes for expectation formation …

across states shows that the rise in top income shares can explain almost all of the accumulation of household debt held as a … financial asset by the household sector. Since the Great Recession, the saving glut of the rich has been financing government …

. Information treatments about current and next year's interest rates have a strong effect on household expectations but treatments …