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We study the interplay between a "one person-one vote" political system and a "one share-one vote" corporate governance regime. The political system sets Pigouvian subsidies, while corporate governance determines firm-specific public good investments. Our analysis highlights a two-way feedback...
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The extent of voluntary cooperation in the presence of externalities is shown as an equilibrium outcome in the supply … prices. Voluntary cooperation can have a far different incidence than Pigouvian taxes and subsidies while changing the … character of the costs resulting from externalities. The paper discusses applications including forest management, volume …
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commit to contracts, virus externalities are local, and competitive equilibria are efficient. The Second Welfare Theorem also … their infection status. If society cannot control virus exposure, then virus externalities are global and competitive … externalities and result in inefficiently high economic activity. If agents cannot commit, competitive equilibria are inefficient …
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Developing country megacities suffer from severe road traffic congestion, yet the level of congestion is not a direct measure of equilibrium inefficiency. I study the peak-hour traffic congestion equilibrium in Bangalore. To measure travel preferences, I use a model of departure time choice to...
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We examine the desirability of granting "safe harbor" provisions to creditors of financial intermediaries in sale-and-repurchase (repo) contracts. Exemption from an automatic stay in bankruptcy enables financial intermediaries to raise greater liquidity and induces entry of intermediaries with...
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show that, in the presence of such spillovers to non-users, standard measures that take aggregate consumption as given fail … spillovers, which we apply to estimate the consumer surplus of two popular social media platforms, TikTok and Instagram. In large … surplus, our measure accounting for consumption spillovers indicates a negative surplus, with a large share of active users …
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A growing fraction of companies globally have made commitments to reduce their carbon emissions by a certain date. While the companies that make commitments subsequently reduce their emissions, the effect on overall emissions of companies (including those that do not commit) has been small; the...
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Missed clinic appointments present a significant burden to health care through disruption of care, inefficient use of staff time and wasted clinical resources. Short message service (SMS) appointment reminders show promise to improve clinics' management through timely appointment cancellations...
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exporters generate positive spillovers for domestically-oriented producers? In this paper we analyze the causal links between … costs are not affected by previous export market participation. So the well-known efficiency gap between exporters and non …
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In this article, we examine the association between family wealth and academic achievement and socioemotional behaviors of children ages 5 to 12. We examine whether wealth prior to birth and at ages 4 or 5 affects academic test scores and behavioral problems during two periods of childhood, ages...
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