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Information and communication technology now enables firms to collect detailed and potentially intrusive data about their customers both easily and cheaply. This means that privacy concerns are no longer limited to government surveillance and public figures' private lives. The empirical...
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Time use data facilitate deeper understanding of individual labor supply choices, especially for women, who are more likely to engage in unpaid care and home production. However, traditional time use data collection methods are time-consuming, expensive and susceptible to significant attrition....
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We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...
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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 …
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capital gain position of the fund. This paper's simulations show that these externalities are important determinants of the …
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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 …
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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...
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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 … intergenerational externalities in greater detail …
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meaningful fire sale externalities in the mutual fund industry …
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optimal, their marginal benefit of addressing externalities should equal their marginal cost of distorting risk-sharing. These … externalities that would rationalize existing regulations as optimal. I conduct a revealed-preference exercise using this portfolio … and test whether the recovered externalities are sensible. I find that the signs of existing CIP violations are …
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