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Effects of corporate social responsibility and irresponsibility policies

Armstrong, J. Scott; Green, Kesten C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This article reviews experimental evidence on the effects of policies intended to promote behavior by firms that is more socially responsible and less socially irresponsible. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) can provide firms with opportunities for profit, but changes are likely to increase...

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Understanding "The Problem of Social Cost"

baffi, enrico - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper examines the positions of Coase and Pigou in regard to the problem of external effects (externalities …

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Heat savings and heat generation technologies: Modelling of residential investment behaviour with local externalities

zvingilaite, Erika; Klinge Jacobsen, Henrik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The trade off between investing in energy savings in single family houses and investing in more expensive heating technologies with low variable costs has been modelled for a number of building and consumer categories in Denmark. The households have an option to combine their primary heating...

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Core stable bidding rings in independent private value auctions with externalities

Biran, Omer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

ring rather than participating in the grand cartel? We show that in the presence of direct externalities between bidders …

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The effect of Beijing’s driving restrictions on pollution and economic activity

Viard, Brian; Fu, Shihe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We evaluate the environmental and economic effects of Beijing’s driving restrictions. Based on daily data from multiple monitoring stations, air pollution falls 19% during every-other-day and 8% during one-day-per-week restrictions. Based on hourly viewership data, the number of television...

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Do Parking Requirements Significantly Increase The Area Dedicated To Parking? A Test Of The Effect Of Parking Requirements Values In Los Angeles County

Franco, Sofia; Cutter, Bowman; DeWoody, Autumn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Minimum parking requirements are the norm for urban and suburban development in the United States (Davidson and Dolnick (2002)). The justification for parking space requirements is that overflow parking will occupy nearby street or off-street parking. Shoup (1999) and Willson (1995) provides...

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Ecological Economics of Water in China: Towards A Strategy for Sustainable Development

Khan, Haider; Liu, Yibei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze one important part of the emerging environmental problems in China--- water pollution. The importance of water for any nation is obvious. In case of China it acquires particular salience because of China’s industrial needs as well as human needs....

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Interdependent Preferences, Potential Games and Household Consumption

Deb, Rahul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

economies to pure exchange economies with externalities. …

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The Implication of Incorporating Environmental Costs in Utility Rate Setting

Mariam, Yohannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

, conservation and externalities. Externalities could include the direct and indirect environmental and human health cost of using … greater than the quantifiable and monetized impacts of environmental externalities. The need to account for environmental …

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Negative Network Externalities in Two-Sided Markets: A Competition Approach

Kurucu, Gokce - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

; that is, a market with negative intra-group network externalities. I find that the equilibrium market structure varies with … the extent of negative externalities. If the market’s negative network externalities are substantial, that is, if an agent … externalities on one side are not substantial, then the matchmaker will maximize profits by matching an equal number of agents from …

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