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popularity. Information externalities render the chosen set smaller than socially optimal. This rationalizes antitrust policies …
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This paper assumes that workers can move from a market with high unemployment to one with low unemployment at a cost. In principle. equilibrium mobility can be greater or less than the social optimum. For most plausible parameter values. however. mobility is too low. Intuitively. mobility has a...
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importance in controlling harmful externalities. I compare the tax and liability here in theory and suggest that the conclusions … harmful externalities, its actual use has been limited, mainly to the domain of pollution. Liability, in contrast, has great …
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Taxation and liability are compared here as means of controlling harmful externalities. It is emphasized that liability …
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costs of subsidizing corporate debt from the existing literature. Our theory also sheds light on why the IRS considers …
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outcomes are inefficient. In the case of negative externalities, Pigouvian taxes are one way to correct this market failure …
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We propose a novel theory of self-fulfilling unemployment fluctuations. According to this theory, a firm hiring an … for low prices when he is employed than when he is unemployed. In response to the increase in demand and prices, other … of employment on demand and prices and show that they are sufficiently strong to generate multiple rational expectations …
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Climate change is a global "free rider" problem because significant abatement of greenhouse gases is an expensive public good requiring international cooperation to apportion compliance among states. But it is also a global "free driver" problem because geoengineering the stratosphere with...
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optima. First, there is an Internality Dividend from Externality Taxes: aside from reducing externalities, they also offset …
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This paper develops a simple model of a polluting industry and an innovating firm. The polluting industry is faced with regulation and costly abatement. Regulation may be taxes or marketable permits. The innovating firm invests in R&D and develops technologies which reduce the cost of pollution...
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