externalities. Using instrumental variables based on changing wind directions, we show increased levels of contemporaneous pollution …Influenza and air pollution each pose significant public health risks with large global economic consequences. The … of pollution control and vaccination campaigns jointly provide greater returns than those implied by addressing either in …

(agriculture). Our focus is mainly on the costs associated with congestion and pollution as well the impact of under-priced energy … indicative estimates of the external costs of energy subsidies, as manifested in congestion and pollution. Our estimates using …

determinants for efficiency in credence goods markets. While theory predicts that either liability or verifiability yields … efficiency, we find that liability has a crucial, but verifiability only a minor effect. Allowing sellers to build up reputation … higher efficiency as long as liability is violated. -- Credence goods ; experiment ; liability ; verifiability ; reputation …

percent of mean income. In this paper we use economic theory to determine the relation between the appropriate make …

economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) and about the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the … externalities ; urban wage premium …

This paper provides a novel microeconomic foundation for pecuniary human capital externalities in a labor market model …. -- Externalities ; human capital ; multiple equilibria …

selection. Building on their framework we demonstrate that externalities between agents - an agent's utility upon accepting a … when the size of the externalities is arbitrarily small. Our result highlights the degree of control a principal has over …