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International spillovers and water quality in rivers: Do countries free ride?
Sigman, Hilary - 2001
Transboundary spillovers may degrade environmental quality if countries free ride. This paper examines the extent of such degradation in water quality in international rivers. Using data from river monitoring stations in the UN's Global Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS), it compares...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318361
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A Video Interview of Buz Brock
Mizrach, Bruce - 2004
This article is a video presentation of an interview with Buz Brock at the 12th SNDE conference in Atlanta Georgia on March 12, 2004. The interview includes 15 questions on topics ranging from nonlinear dynamics, ecological modeling, and heterogenous agents.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263233
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Relative Consumption Concerns and the Optimal Tax Mix
Eckerstorfer, Paul - 2011
whole tax system is affected by the externalities caused by the consumption of positional goods, notably also the taxes on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294915
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Optimal redistributive taxation in a multi-externality model
Eckerstorfer, Paul - 2011
This paper extends the previous literature on optimal redistributive taxation in the presence of externalities to a … multi-externality setting. While taxes on income and on 'clean' commodities are still unaffected by the externalities, which … implications for the optimal Pigouvian tax rates. In general the Pigouvian parts of taxation depend also on the externalities …
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Stationary equilibria in bargaining with externalities
Björnerstedt, Jonas; Westermark, Andreas - 2008
This paper studies infinite-horizon bargaining between a seller and multiple buyers when externalities are present. We … externalities. Since each buyer receives a positive payoff when the seller makes an agreement with some other buyer, positive … externalities induce a war of attrition between buyers. …
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Do markets erode social responsibility?
Bartling, Björn; Weber, Roberto A. - 2013
This paper studies the stability of socially responsible behavior in markets. We develop a laboratory product market in which low-cost production creates a negative externality for third parties, but where alternative production with higher costs entirely mitigates the externality. Our data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332043
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Whom to lobby? Targeting in political networks
Groll, Thomas; Prummer, Anja - 2016
We study lobbying in a setting in which decision-makers share resources in a network. Two opposing interest groups choose which decision-maker they want to target with their resource provision, and their decision depends on the decision-makers' ideologies as well as the network structure. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927975
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Information, externalities and socioeconomics of Malaria in Honduras: A preliminary analysis
Avilés, Maria Victoria; Cuesta, José - 2009
against malaria in Honduras. The paper additionally analyzes 'information externalities' associated with non-specific malaria … information externalities exist, they nonetheless do not deliver adequate levels of knowledge proficiency to induce desirable anti …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278231
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Prosociality predicts health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic
Campos-Mercade, Pol; Meier, Armando N.; Schneider, … - 2020
Socially responsible behavior is crucial for slowing the spread of infectious diseases. However, economic and epidemiological models of disease transmission abstract from prosocial motivations as a driver of behaviors that impact the health of others. In an incentivized study, we show that a...
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Public discourse and socially responsible market behavior
Bartling, Björn; Valero, Vanessa; Weber, Roberto A.; … - 2020
We investigate the causal impact of public discourse on socially responsible market behavior. We conduct laboratory market experiments with products that differ in their production costs and social impact, and provide market actors and impacted third parties with the opportunity to discuss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012284780