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paid by the winner. We study the impact of these price-externalities on the first-price auction and the second … independently from the identity of the winner. We prove that the first-price auction is not affected by this kind of price-externalities … by the presence of such price-externalities. In any case, in comparison with the first-price auction, the second …
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Na and Shin (1998) showed that the veil of uncertainty can be conducive to the success of self-enforcing international environmental agreements. Later papers confirmed this negative conclusion about the role of learning. In the light of intensified research efforts worldwide to reduce...
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exposed to external investments. The objective of the proposed two-sector model with environmental externalities is to provide … the two typologies of actors. -- Foreign Direct Investments ; Environmental Negative Externalities ; Structural Changes …
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We put forward a model of private goods with externalities. Agents derive benefit from communicating with each other …
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This paper studies the design of sin taxes when firms exercise market power. We outline an optimal tax framework that highlights how market power impacts the efficiency and redistributive properties of sin taxation, and quantify these effects in an application to sugar-sweetened beverage...
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among the heaviest drinkers – the group who, at the margin, are likely to create the largest externalities from drinking … price floor outperforms an ethanol tax. However, more flexible tax systems can achieve similar reductions in externalities …
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This paper investigates the interplay of trade and terrorism externalities under free trade between a developed nation …
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the related coping strategies produce some kind of externalities toward others. Whether they are positive or negative, the … presence of externalities may lead the system towards Pareto-dominated states. In this work, we study under and over … externalities to other agents. We distinguish adaptation technologies between maladaptation and mitigation ones, depending on the …
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externalities. Policy effectiveness depends on whether the measure achieves large reductions in the most socially costly consumption …
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This paper studies the impact of adaptation on the stability of an international emission agreement. To address this issue we solve a three-stage coalition formation game where in the first stage countries decide whether or not to sign the agreement. Then, in the second stage, signatories...
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