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Platform Competition with Endogenous Multihoming

Roson, Roberto - 2005

A model of two-sided market (for credit cards) is introduced and discussed. In this model, agents can join none, one, or more than one platform (multihoming), depending on access prices and the choices made by agents on the opposite market side. Although emerging multihoming patterns are,...

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The Role of Standards in Eco-innovation: Lessons for Policymakers

Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; van der Werf, Edwin - 2013

This paper aims to help policy makers identify how standards can contribute to the effective and cost … discuss what standards are, how the process of standardization works, and how standards are related to induced innovation and …-saving technologies. This broad perspective enables us to identify interesting economic dimensions of standards, such as their …

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A Note on Pollution Regulation With Asymmetric Information

Pench, Alberto - 2016

The paper addresses the problem of information asymmetry between a regulator and the polluting firms and proposes a very simple mechanism where the regulator is free to choose, without communicating in advance to the firms, between two instruments: an effluent fee or a standard: as a result in a...

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Price Competition with Information Disparities in a Vertically Differentiated Duopoly

Cavaliere, Alberto - 2004

In this paper we extend the model of vertical product differentiation to also consider information disparities about the extent of quality differences. Equilibrium prices turn out to depend not only on the share of informed consumers but also on uninformed consumers beliefs about quality...

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Contracting for impure public goods: Carbon offsets and additionality

Mason, Charles F.; Plantinga, Andrew J. - 2011

Governments contracting with private agents for the provision of an impure public good must contend with agents who would potentially supply the good absent any payments. This additionality problem is centrally important in the use of carbon offsets as part of climate change mitigation....

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Environmental auditing in management systems and public policy

Sinclair-Desgagné, Bernard; Gabel, H. Landis - 1997

New international standards for environmental auditing are now being actively promoted by public authorities and … adopted by private firms. One important feature of these standards is their emphasis on managerial systems and incentives that …

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Provision of quality and certification intermediaries

Albano, Gian Luigi; Lizzeri, Alessandro - 1997

If buyers do not observe the quality of a product and production of quality is costly, market allocations can be very inefficient. Certification intermediaries are institutions that provide information about quality to buyers. The amount of information in the market determines the incentives...

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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. First Volume

Recchia, Virginia - 1999

Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently evolving legislation dealing with hazards, the key issues of public involvement, the risk and environmental management. Risk communication is a relatively new field based on a...

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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. Second Volume

Recchia, Virginia - 1999

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A Theory of Strategic Diffusion

Goyal, Sanjeev; Galeotti, Andrea - 2007

The important role of friends, neighbors and colleagues in shaping individual choices has been brought out in a number of studies over the years. The presence of significant 'local' influence in shaping individual behavior suggests that firms, governments and developmental agencies should...

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