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This paper identifies two types of market failures. The first concerns a coordination problem associated with panics. The problem in analysing this type of market failure from a policy perspective is that there is no widely accepted method for selecting equilibria. The second market failure...
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Extreme weather patterns are causing major damage on property and business and the question of who pays is becoming a serious issue. A law and economics point of view focuses on the problem that emitters of greenhouse gases externalize the true costs of their contribution to climate change...
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The influence of mankind on the Earth in recent years has become so significant as to constitute a new geological era: The Anthropocene...
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Im Jahr 2008 wurden in der Schweiz aktive klimapolitische Massnahmen eingeführt,die zur Senkung der CO2-Emissionen beitragen sollen, um die Klimaziele im Rahmendes Kyoto-Protokolls (Senkung der Treibhausgasemissionen um 8 % im Vergleichzum Basisjahr 1990) erreichen zu können. Diese Massnahmen...
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Vorliegender Beitrag nimmt kritisch Stellung zur der von Adams in der Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (ZIP) veröffentlichtenAnalyse der Kapitallebensversicherung.
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Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier beschäftigt sich mit Verkehrsinformationsdienste für Nutzer des motorisiertenIndividualverkehrs und des öffentlichen Personennahverkehr.
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In this essay I compare two different theoretical frameworks in economics for orientinganalysis of issues in technology policy. One is a neoclassical framework that sees appropriatepolicies as dealing with “market failures”. The other framework is provided by an evolutionaryand institutional...
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•One tentative estimate places the incidence of transfer failure at around 100,000 per year, although many of these ‘failures’ involve micro businesses, with few assets or employees, and which may not be viable candidates for transfer. Through a literature review, focus groups with those...
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Extreme adverse selection arises when private information has unboundedsupport, and market breakdown occurs when no trade is the only equilibriumoutcome. We study extreme adverse selection via the limit behavior of afinancial market as the support of private information converges to an...
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In diesem Papier wird untersucht, ob bzw. wie sich im Rahmen des Kyoto Protokollsdie globalen Emissionsreduktionsziele mit der ökonomischen Rationalität derbeteiligten Länder in Einklang bringen lassen. Den äußeren Rahmen der Analyse bildeteine spieltheoretische Darstellung der...
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