Showing 1 - 10 of 7,295
presence of externalities. The paper employs a two-period, open economy framework in which the central government allocates its … externalities. This is not only because debt relief that expands the availability of current resources has positive direct income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475365
The paper emphasizes the role of institutions and incentives in the presence of externalities. An economy with multiple … effective institutions exist for overcoming coordination failure. External financing may weaken incentives for adjustment over … that strengthen incentives to provide effort. Uncertainty regarding future taxes reduces present effort and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475638
This paper develops a theoretical model of multinational firms with an internal capital market. Main reasons for the emergence of such a market are tax avoidance through debt shifting and the existence of institutional weaknesses and financial frictions across host countries. The model serves to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460245
Country incentives to participate in cooperative arrangements which either fully or partially internalize climate … change externalities from carbon emissions involve critical asymmetries. Small countries trade off own country costs of … country incentives to participate in carbon emission limitation negotiations using a micro global warming structure related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463936
create asymmetric incentives because increases in externalities remain unpriced. This paper examines implications of such …Many countries use substantial public funds to subsidize reductions in negative externalities. However, such subsidies … asymmetric subsidy incentives by using a regression discontinuity design in California's electricity rebate program that provided …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459177
We examine the role of consumption externalities in the demand for pharmaceuticals at both the brand level and over a … equations describing the dynamic adjustment process. We find that consumption externalities influence both valuations and rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470978
capital gain position of the fund. This paper's simulations show that these externalities are important determinants of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471098
This paper presents a simple but quite general framework for analyzing the impact of informational externalities. By … identifying the traditional pecuniary effect of these externalities which nets out,the paper greatly simplifies the problem of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477791
This paper examines how the optimal Pigouvian tax should be adjusted to reflect administrative costs. Several cases are examined, depending on whether the administrative costs are fixed per firm taxed or are a function of the amount of tax collected, and on whether such costs are borne by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478373
A common theme which runs through much of the investment literature is that private incentives may lead to sub … programs to alleviate these intergenerational externalities. Specifically, the sub-optimal investment in offspring human …'s education. Less obvious externalities may result when parents underinvest in themselves because they fail to consider spillover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478984