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Environmental tax reform in a federation with rent-induced migration

Garon, Jean-Denis; Séguin, Charles - 2015

We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...

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Values for environments with externalities : the average approach

Macho-Stadler, Inés; Pérez-Castrillo, J. David; … - 2016

We propose the "average approach," where the worth of a coalition is a weighted average of its worth for different partitions of the players' set, as a unifying method to extend values for characteristic function form games. Our method allows us to extend the equal division value, the equal...

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Disposal of petroleum installations : major policy issues

Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar - 2000

Following the Brent Spar controversy, the OSPAR countries reached a unanimous agreement in 1998 for the future rules for disposal of petroleum installations. The vast majority of existing offshore installations will be re-used or returned to shore for recycling or disposal. For installations...

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Public discourse and socially responsible market behavior

Bartling, Björn; Valero, Vanessa; Weber, Roberto A.; … - 2020

We investigate the causal impact of public discourse on socially responsible market behavior. We conduct laboratory market experiments with products that differ in their production costs and social impact, and provide market actors and impacted third parties with the opportunity to discuss...

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Resource dependence, recycling, and trade

Egger, Peter; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2023

must be safely stored by landfill to avoid environmental damage. The costs of waste disposal create externalities. An …

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Public GoBs

Heyen, Daniel; Tavoni, Alessandro - 2025

countries. The private provision of public GoBs proves inefficient due to both free-rider and free-driver externalities …

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Social preferences and environmental externalities

Campos-Mercade, Pol; Ek, Claes; Soderberg, Magnus; … - 2025

Standard economic theory assumes that consumers ignore the externalities they create, such as emissions from burning … avoid imposing negative externalities on others. Using administrative data on household waste, we show a clear link between …

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Do markets erode social responsibility?

Bartling, Björn; Weber, Roberto A. - 2013

This paper studies the stability of socially responsible behavior in markets. We develop a laboratory product market in which low-cost production creates a negative externality for third parties, but where alternative production with higher costs entirely mitigates the externality. Our data...

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Optimal higher education enrollment and productivity externalities in a two-sector model

Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2012

We investigate externalities in higher education enrollment over the course of development in a two-sector model. Each … acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit productivity externalities in the size of the skill-specific labor and in the …. -- higher education ; enrollment ; externalities ; two-sector model …

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Abatement innovation in a cournot oligopoly : emission versus output tax incentives

Aoyama, Naoto; Silva, Emilson C. D. - 2016

This study compares energy and emission taxes used to control pollution and provide incentives for the adoption of an advanced abatement technology in a Cournot oligopoly. We examine multistage games where the government may intervene in order to maximize social welfare by setting an...

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