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Measuring Externalities in Program Evaluation
Janssens, Wendy - 2005
. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the …
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Competing Recombinant Technologies for Environmental Innovation
Zeppini, Paolo; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2010
This article presents a model of sequential decisions about investments in environmentally dirty and clean technologies, which extends the path-dependence framework of Arthur (1989). This allows us to evaluate if and how an economy locked into a dirty technology can be unlocked and move towards...
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Production Externalities in the Wood Furniture Industry in Central Java
Andadari, Roos K.; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Rietveld, Piet - 2012
This paper exploits micro firm level data to examine the impact of spatial clustering and links to foreign buyer networks on firm performance in the wood furniture industry in Central Java, Indonesia. The analysis is based on an annual manufacturing survey. We identify the impact of...
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Gift Exchange in the Workplace
Dur, Robert - 2008
We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....
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Step by Step : Revisiting Step Tolling in the Bottleneck Model
Lindsey, Robin; van den Berg, Vincent A.C; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2012
In most dynamic traffic congestion models, congestion tolls must vary continuously over time to achieve the full optimum. This is also the case in Vickrey's (1969) 'bottleneck model'. To date, the closest approximations of this ideal in practice have so-called 'step tolls,' in which the toll...
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Fair Agreements for Sharing International Rivers with Multiple Springs and Externalities
van den Brink, René; van der Laan, Gerard; Moes, Nigel - 2010
satiable agents, i.e., the benefit function is decreasing beyond some satiation point. In such situations externalities appear … has an increasing benefit function (no externalities) then every weighted hierarchical solution is core-stable. In ca! se … of satiation points, it appears that every weighted hierarchical solution is independent of the externalities …
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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research
van Praag, B.M.S - 2010
It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined without taking the reference process into account. The reference effect depends on how frequently individuals compare with others and on the degree of social transparency in society. In this paper we employ the...
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Production Externalities in the Wood Furniture Industry in Central Java
Andadari, Roos; de Groot, Henri L. F.; … - 2012
This paper exploits micro firm level data to examine the impact of spatial clustering and links to foreign buyer networks on firm performance in the wood furniture industry in Central Java, Indonesia. The analysis is based on an annual manufacturing survey. We identify the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167685
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Transboundary Externalities and Property Rights : An International River Pollution Model
van der Laan, Gerard - 2012
In this paper we study international river pollution problems. We introduce a model in which the agents (countries) located along a river derive benefit while causing pollution, but also incur environmental costs of experiencing pollution from all upstream agents. We find that total pollution in...
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Regulation of Road Accident Externalities When Insurance Companies Have Market Power
Dementieva, Maria - 2013
Accident externalities are among the most important external costs of road transport. We study the regulation of these … internalize some of these externalities, depending on their degree of market power. We derive optimal insurance premiums, and …
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