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(namely, from Cyprus and British Virgin Islands) across Russia and compare them with the benchmark group of genuine foreign …
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Economic theory predicts that individual recycling behavior gravitates toward extremes--either diligent recycling or no … recycling at all. Using a nationally representative sample of 3,158 bottled water users, this article finds that this prediction … is borne out for consumer recycling of plastic water bottles. Both water bottle deposits and recycling laws foster …
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We analyze alternative policies such as a disposal content fee, a subsidy for recyclable designs, unit pricing of household disposal, a deposit-refund system, and a manufacturer `take-back' requirement. In order to identify the problem being addressed, we build a simple general equilibrium model...
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This paper estimates the impact of a user fee and a curbside recycling program on garbage and recycling amounts … policies and the levels of garbage and recycling collected in the community. A simple sequential model of local policymaking is … cross-section of towns without user fees but with and without curbside recycling programs. The combined data set is larger …
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This paper develops a utility maximizing model of household choice among garbage disposal, recycling, and littering … recycling. The model explains (1) why some households participate in curbside recycling programs even in the absence of a user …-wide quantities of garbage, recycling, and litter. We show how an increase in the user fee can decrease aggregate recycling …
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This paper provides a broad overview of recent trends in solid waste and recycling, related public policy issues, and … the economics literature devoted to these topics. Public attention to solid waste and recycling has increased dramatically … makers choose the efficient mix of policy levers to regulate solid waste and recycling activities. Economists have also …
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This paper proposes a theory of price rigidity consistent with survey evidence that firms stabilize prices out of fairness to their consumers. The theory relies on two psychological assumptions. First, customers care about the fairness of prices: fixing the price of a good, consumers enjoy it...
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, concern over dioxin in both paper products and wastewater led to the development of techniques that reduced the use of chlorine in the pulp industry. Both regulatory and consumer pressure motivated this change. We use patent data to examine the evolution of two...
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This paper proposes an explanation of the international home bias in equity based on ambiguity aversion. Doubts imply an additional hedging motif driven by the interaction between real exchange rate risk and ambiguity aversion. What matters is the long-run as opposed to the short-run risk....
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Previous research has used survey and diary data to carefully document that Food Stamp recipients decrease their expenditures and consumption of food throughout the benefit month, the beginning of which is defined by the date on which benefits are distributed. The reliance on survey and diary...
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