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innovation. After identifying pervasive market failures in innovation, it explains why those associated with the Nordic model may …
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Cities generate negative, as well as positive, externalities; addressing those externalities requires both …
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externalities', an increase in the size of the market brings forth additional products valued by others with similar tastes. But who … satisfaction grow in market size. We document this phenomenon across 246 US radio markets. By a mechanism that we term 'preference … benefits whom? We examine the patterns of and mechanisms for preference externalities between black and white and between …
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Regulation of economic activity is ubiquitous around the world, yet standard theories predict it should be rather …
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it uses and erode national regulatory systems. In general, it will suffer from the same type of market failure which …
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change externalities from carbon emissions involve critical asymmetries. Small countries trade off own country costs of …
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It is difficult to resolve the global warming free-rider externality problem by negotiating many different quantity targets. By contrast, negotiating a single internationally-binding minimum carbon price (the proceeds from which are domestically retained) counters self-interest by incentivizing...
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quantifies the external costs of global fuel subsidies using the latest available data and estimates from the World Bank and … unlikely to cost-effectively reduce these externalities as they do little to address traffic congestion or accidents, and only …
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pipeline spills and accidents, important externalities – air pollution and greenhouse gas costs – have been largely overlooked …
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This paper examines the degree to which the learning by doing externality [LBD] calls for an undervalued exchange rate, a policy suggested by recent empirical studies which concluded that mildly undervalued real exchange rate may enhance growth. We obtain mixed results. For an economy where LBD...
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