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Ecosystem externalities arise when one use of an ecosystem affects its other uses through the production functions of …
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We use the repeated random assignment of external examiners to school institutes in Italy to investigate whether the effect of external monitoring on test score manipulation persists over time. We find that this effect is still present in the tests taken one year after exposure to the examiners,...
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the development of ecosystem modeling with emphasis on economic aspects of ecology. This was followed by a presentation of …
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This paper presents an examination of the socially efficient formation of environmental R&D in Cournot duopoly in a setting where a regulator has no precommitment ability for an emission tax. The results reveal that if the environmental damage is slight, alternatively, given severe environmental...
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This paper aims to enrich the standard toolbox for measuring diversity in economics. In so doing, we compare the indicators of diversity used by economists with those used by biologists and ecologists. Ecologists and biologists are concerned about biodiversity: the diversity of organisms that...
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paid by the winner. We study the impact of these price-externalities on the first-price auction and the second … independently from the identity of the winner. We prove that the first-price auction is not affected by this kind of price-externalities … by the presence of such price-externalities. In any case, in comparison with the first-price auction, the second …
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We generalise the coalition structure core to partition function games. Our definition relies only on one crucial assumption, namely that there is some internal consistency in the game: residuals of the deviation play a game similar to the initial one, and – whenever this is possible – they...
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externalities. An organization is defined as a group of agents, together with a set of bilateral relations, formally, a connected … graph. Because of the presence of externalities, the profitability of coalitional threats to an organization depend on the … externalities, while the fully connected organization emerges under negative. This result is shown to hold independently of the …
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