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Minimum Quality Standards in Hedonic Markets with Environmental Externalities

Ecchia, Giulio - 2011

We investigate the introduction of a minimum quality standard (MQS) in a vertically differentiated duopoly with an environmental externality. We establish that the MQS bites only if the hedonic component of consumer preferences is sufficiently strong. Then, we illustrate an underlying tradeoff...

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Measuring Consumption Externalities

Randon, Emanuela - 2012

paper, externalities as Nash equilibrium are estimated using consumer demand theory and a large data set. We estimate Nash …Estimation and measurement of consumption externalities are still challenging problems in applied research. In this … equilibrium consumption externalities in petrol budget shares of households living in a metropolitan area in UK. The reaction …

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Regulating Environmental Externalities Through Public Firms : A Differential Game

Dragone, Davide - 2011

We investigate the possibility of using public firms to regulate polluting emissions in a Cournot oligopoly where production takes place at constant returns to scale and entails a negative environmental externality. We model the problem as a differential game and investigate (i) the Cournot-Nash...

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Job Separations, Job Loss and Informality in the Russian Labor Market

Lehmann, Hartmut; Razzolini, Tiziano; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2011

Having unique data we investigate the link between job separations (displacement and quits) and informal employment, which we define in several ways posing the general question whether the burden of informality falls disproportionately on job separators in the Russian labor market. After we have...

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Spatial Commuting Patterns of German Regional Labour Markets : A Sustainability Perspective

Tedeschi, Federico; Reggiani, Aura; Nijkamp, Peter - 2012

negative environmental externalities, which are clearly associated with a specific transport mode, viz. the private car …. Negative environmental externalities as a result of modal choices in Germany are confirmed by data from EU-15 countries. Public …

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Labor Markets and Labor Market Institutions in Transition Economies

Lehmann, Hartmut - 2011

This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. The main focus is on the evolution of labor market institutions, which are among candidate...

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The Change of Job Opportunities : The Role of Computerization and Institutions

Nellas, Viki - 2012

This paper studies the pattern of job opportunities over the last two decades in European countries. We find that the share of high-skilled jobs have been expanding over time, while the share of medium-skilled jobs have been declining. These changes are in line with the US patterns and,...

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Labor Market Institutions and Labor Market Performance : What Can We Learn from Transition Countries?

Lehmann, Hartmut - 2010

This paper studies the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance using a new and unique dataset that covers the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which in the last two decades experienced radical economic and institutional...

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Employment Reallocation and Unemployment Revisited : A Quantile Regression Approach

Panagiotidis, Theodore - 2013

This study revisits the sectoral shifts hypothesis for the US for the period 1948 to 2011. A quantile regression approach is employed in order to investigate the asymmetric nature of the relationship between sectoral employment and unemployment. Significant asymmetries emerge. Lilien's...

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Patent Races with Dynamic Complementarity

Blasco, Andrea - 2020

Recent models of multi-stage R&D have shown that a system of weak intellectual property rights may lead to faster innovation by inducing firms to share intermediate technological knowledge. In this article I introduce a distinction between plain and sophisticated technological knowledge, which...

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