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Controlling externalities in the presence of rent seeking
Mackenzie, Ian A. - 2009
investigate the incentives to expend effort for a prize that produces consumption externalities and consider alternative … regulatory policies. We find relatively more global consumption externalities will increase (decrease) rent seeking when … consumption externalities are negative (positive). We show how introducing Pigouvian taxation (possibly with revenue transfer) and …
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Educating voters for protection
Sawaki, Hisashi - In: The journal of international trade & economic development 24 (2015) 7/8, pp. 906-921
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Could a Pigouvian subsidy mitigate poker machine externalities, in Australia?
Rowell, David; Gyrd-Hansen, Dorte - In: Economic papers : a journal of applied economics and policy 33 (2014) 4, pp. 327-338
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Externalities of national pharmaceutical policy when markets are integrated through parallel trade
Birg, Laura - In: Review of international economics 23 (2015) 3, pp. 558-574
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Competing recombinant technologies for environmental innovation
Zeppini, Paolo; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 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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The implementation of marginal external cost pricing in road transport
Verhoef, Erik T. - 1998
This paper discusses a number of issues that will become increasingly important nowthat the concept of marginal external cost pricing becomes more likely to be implementedas a policy strategy in transport in reality. The first part of the paper deals with thelong-run efficiency of marginal...
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General geographical economics model with congestion
Marrewijk, Charles van - 2005
We derive and discuss a general, but simple geographical economics model with congestion, allowing us to explain the economic viability of small and large locations. The model generalizes some previous work and lends itself to analyzing the impact of public policy in terms of infrastructure...
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Should the good and the selfish be taxed differently?
Long, Ngo Van; Stähler, Frank - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 114 (2012) 3, pp. 932-948
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Environmental taxation and development : a scoping study
Spratt, Stephen - 2013
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Externalities in recruiting
Kräkel, Matthias; Szech, Nora; Bieberstein, Frauke von - 2013
External recruiting at least weakly improves the quality of the pool of applicants, but the incentive implications are less clear. Using a contest model, this paper investigates the pure incentive effects of external recruiting. Our results show that if workers are heterogeneous, the opening of...
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