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Essays on environmental and public economics

Williams, Roberton C. (contributor); … - 2011

This dissertation is a collection of three essays in the fields of environmental and public economics. The first essay assesses the effect of government spending on charitable donations to environmental causes. Using a theoretical model, I solve for changes in private donations due to increased...

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Altruism and Egoism: Measurable by Utility Discount Rates?

Bayer, Stefan - 2000

intergenerationellen Gleichbehandlungspostulat des Utilitarismus Genüge getan. In der Altruismus-Modellierung ergibt sich das methodische … Problem der mehrfachen Berücksichtigung des selben Effektes. Altruismus ist um so stärker ausgeprägt, je geringer die … Altruismus oder Egoismus verwenden läßt. Abschließend werden unsere Überlegungen auf den Klimaschutzfall angewendet …

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The resurrection of group selection as a theory of human cooperation

Price, M - 2008

Two books edited by members of the MacArthur Norms and Preferences Network (an interdisciplinary group, mainly anthropologists and economists) are reviewed here. These books in large part reflect a renewed interest in group selectionthat has occurred among these researchers: they promote the...

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The Market Value of Family Values

Chami, Ralph; Fullenkamp, Connel - 1997

. Parental and spousal transfers are motivated both by altruism and by a desire to use the transfers to impart specific values or … behaviors to the recipient. When altruistic transfers predominate and the altruism is not completely reciprocated by the …

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Public goods and tax competition in a two-sided market

Kotsogiannis, Christos; Serfes, Konstantinos - 2010

A rather neglected issue in the tax competition literature is the dependence of equilibrium outcomes on the presence of firms and shoppers (two-sided markets). Making use of a model of vertical and horizontal differentiation, within which jurisdictions compete by providing public goods and...

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Public goods, environmental externalities and fiscal competition: Selected papers on competition, efficiency and cooperation in public economics

Chander, Parkash (contributor); Drèze, Jacques (contributor) - 2006

The twenty-two papers collected in this volume illustrate the itinerary of Henry Tulkens, an applied theorist, on the occasion of his retirement from teaching. The collection is structured in four parts: I. Decentralized resource allocation processes for public and private goods - II....

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Signaling and search in humanitarian giving: models of donor and organization behavior in the humanitarian space

Wardell, Clarence L. - 2009

At its core, this dissertation examines the role of information, particularly as it relates to proxies for quality, and how it affects both donor and organization decision processes in the humanitarian space. In Chapter 2 I consider the context of competition within the sub-sector of...

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Lietuvos miškų ekonominė vertė ir jos didinimo galimybės

Novikova, Anastasija - 2010

Magistrantūros studijų baigiamasis darbas, 56 puslapiai, 30 paveikslų, 2 lentelės, 5 priedai, 59 literatūros šaltiniai, lietuvių kalba.RAKTINIAI ŽODŽIAI: bendroji ekonominė vertė, privačios gėrybės, viešosios gėrybės, bioįvairovė, miškų ekonominė vertė, didinimo...

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Essays in dynamic contracts under lack of commitment

Hauser, Christine (1980; Abraham, Arpad

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Economics, 2007.

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Design of Discrete Auction

Sujarittanonta, Pacharasut - 2010

Chapter 1: Efficient Design of an Auction with Discrete Bid Levels This paper studies one of auction design issues: the choice of bid levels. Full efficiency is generally unachievable with a discrete auction. Since there may be more than one bidder who submits the same bid, the auction cannot...

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