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This paper explores the effect of airline emissions charges on airfares, airline service quality, aircraft design … are derived by analyzing the effects of an increase in the effective price of fuel, which is the path by which emissions … occur in response to the treatment of an emissions externality that is currently unaddressed, they represent efficient …
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, cost of coal purchases among coal-fired power plants using a panel data set from 1991 to 2005. Our study focuses … exclusively on coal-fired power plants and uses panel data covering several years after implementation of restructuring. The ….6 percent emissions reduction per plant. …
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The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the … spouses' welfare function, this shift in power may lead to a time consistency problem. The allocation of resources after the …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for …
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three most important issues in the field: (1) the evolution of the power to tax in (what are now) the mature constitutional …
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We propose a formal concept of the power of voice in the context of a simple model where individuals form groups and … power of the members of a group, which constitutes an instance of the power of voice. The adopted equilibrium concept … endogenizes the outside options as well as the power of voice. In our illustrative example, there exists an equilibrium that …
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distribution of political power as a mediating factor. We present a simple theoretical model showing that increased rents are … show that rents can promote political stability, but only when the political power is sufficiently concentrated. Indeed, if …
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To examine the effect of group size on the stability of prosocial behavior we used standard one-shot public good experiments with two and four subjects, which were conducted repeatedly three times at intervals of one week. Partner and stranger treatments were employed to control for group...
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given party ideological predispositions and power distribution determine the expected policy outcome. Our analysis applies … power. Our second result clarifies how the success of an interest group hinges on the dominance of its ideology in the … ideological predispositions and power on the efforts of the interest groups …
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disadvantaged players actually increase inequality. We also investigate when players give up an advantageous sharing rule. Power …
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We integrate individual power in groups into general equilibrium models. The relationship between group formation …, resource allocation, and the power of specific individuals or particular sociological groups is investigated. We introduce, via … an illustrative example, three appealing concepts of power and show that there is no monotonic relationship between these …
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