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Adjustment Costs, Inventories and Output
Danziger, Leif - 2021
-adjustment costs in an inflationary environment. The model nests both the original menu-cost model that allows production to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316563
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Is Emission Intensity or Output U-Shaped in the Strictness of Environmental Policy?
Dijkstra, Bouwe - 2014
stricter environmental policy does not always lead to ever cleaner production methods and ever lower production of polluting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051606
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Voluntary Emission Reductions, Social Rewards, and Environmental Policy
Rauscher, Michael - 2021
Social norms and intrinsic motivations lead to environmentally friendly behaviour even in the absence of environmental policy. This paper looks at the interactions of social norms and environmental regulation in their impact on individual behaviour. People obtain social rewards for voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317346
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Firms' Optimism and Pessimism
Bachmann, Ruediger; Elstner, Steffen - 2021
West German manufacturing subset of the IFO Business Climate Survey to infer quarterly production changes at the firm level … and combine them with production expectations over a quarterly horizon in the same survey to construct series of … and at most 34 percent of firms systematically over- or underpredict their one-quarter-ahead upcoming production. In a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315803
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Corrective Taxation for Curbing Pollution and Promoting Green Product Design and Recycling
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2000
In this paper we consider a competitive economy with flows of materials from extraction via recycling to landfilling … stimulates recycling as expected. But it also increases primary material extraction and - possibly - the total waste flow, and it … reduces the recycling ratio. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766303
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General Equilibrium with Multi-Member Households and Production
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - CESifo - 2011
We consider firms and multi-member households operating in a competitive market environment. Households are endowed with resources (commodity bundles) and shares of firm ownership. Household members are characterized by individual preferences, possibly with intra-household consumption...
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ó: The Long And Short Of It
Chirinko, Robert S. - CESifo - 2008
-Douglas production function. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405746
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Labor Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Labor Contracts
Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2014
production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from Chamberlinian externalities. Firms may also protect workers from wage … structure of production in cities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014204210
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The Economics of a Multilateral Investment Agreement
Che, Jiahua - 2012
This paper models a multilateral agreement on investment (MAI) as a coordination device. Multinational enterprises can invest in any number of countries. Without a multilateral investment agreement, expropriation triggers an investment stop by the single MNE. Under a multilateral agreement,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754890
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Cross-Country Income Differences and Technology Diffusion in a Competitive World
Irmen, Andreas - 2012
This paper develops a new open-economy endogenous growth model where technology diffusion allows for a stable and non-degenerate world income distribution. In accordance with the empirical literature, I find that country characteristics such as the social infrastructure, the degree of openness,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754962