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negative pollution externalities associated with local production. We distinguish between two goods (food and manufactures) and … equilibrium framework. We investigate the impact of pollution by focusing on the interaction between location advantages and … activity tends to become less attractive with pollution, and thus less likely. Moreover, we provide a simple necessary and …
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Limited liability may result in inefficient accident prevention, because a relevant portion of the expected harm is … externalized on victims. This paper shows that under some restrictive conditions further limiting liability by means of a liability …
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pollution under different scenarios, so that we can evaluate the combination of environmental regulation and recombinant …
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This paper discusses a number of issues that will become increasingly important nowthat the concept of marginal external cost pricing becomes more likely to be implementedas a policy strategy in transport in reality. The first part of the paper deals with thelong-run efficiency of marginal...
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We derive and discuss a general, but simple geographical economics model with congestion, allowing us to explain the economic viability of small and large locations. The model generalizes some previous work and lends itself to analyzing the impact of public policy in terms of infrastructure...
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energy use does not only cause external environmental costs through pollution, but also directly affects the profitability of …
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This paper studies the relation between optimal dam capacity and water management under rivalry uses and externalities …-linear building cost of dam capacity and externalities in a welfare optimization model. We obtain the optimal dam capacity for multi …
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Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility functions using cooperative game theory. The social network literature studies various … numbers of neighbours) of the positions in a network. Although this allows for externalities, in the sense that the … preferences of a position might depend on the way how other positions are connected, these externalities can be taken into account …
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). Finally, we offer considerations on the optimal design of liability rules. …
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