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Cheap Talk, Gullibility, and Welfare in an Environmental Taxation Game
Deissenberg, Christophe; Dawid, Herbert; Sevcik, Pavel - 2004
We consider a simple dynamic model of environmental taxation that exhibits time inconsistency. There are two categories of firms, Believers, who take the tax announcements made by the Regulator to face value, and Non-Believers, who perfectly anticipate the Regulator's decisions, albeit at a...
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Voluntary environmental agreements, emission taxes and international trade: The importance of the timing of strategies
Conrad, Klaus - 1999
The purpose of the paper is to narrow the gap between the widespread use of voluntary agreements and research on the rationale of such approaches. A typical example are voluntary agreements of many industries to reduce carbon dioxide emissions because of global warming. If the industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608503
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Environmental Policy, Firm Location, And Product Differentiation: The Role of Green Preferences and Inter-firm Pollution
Kuhn, Michael - 1997
-firm pollution alleviate the tendency of firms to delocate into the region with the weaker regulation; then, a deregulatory race to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319313
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Endogenous environmental policy when pollution is transboundary
Fünfgelt, Joachim; Schulze, Günther G. - 2011
We analyze the formation of environmental policy to regulate transboundary pollution if governments are self … be too high if environmental interests and pollution-intensity of production are very strong; under different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286619
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Signaling with performance and the effect of competition
Suzuki, Toru - 2010
Candidates compete to persuade a decision maker. The decision maker wishes to select a candidate who possesses a certain ability. Then, as a signaling, each candidate decides whether to perform a task whose performance statistically reflects the ability. However, since the cost of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281680
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Transboundary Externalities and Property Rights: An International River Pollution Model
van der Laan, Gerard; Moes, Nigel - 2012
In this paper we study international river pollution problems. We introduce a model in which the agents (countries …) located along a river derive benefit while causing pollution, but also incur environmental costs of experiencing pollution … from all upstream agents. We find that total pollution in the model decreases when the agents decide to cooperate. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326271
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Grade Inflation, Social Background, and Labour Market Matching
Schwager, Robert - 2008
A model is presented where workers of differing abilities and from different social backgrounds are assigned to jobs based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce...
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IMF's assistance: Devil's kiss or guardian angel?
Brandes, Julia; Schüle, Tobias - 2007
This paper contributes to the debate on the efficacy of IMF's catalytic finance in preventing financial crises. Extending Morris and Shin (2006), we consider that the IMF's intervention policy usually exerts a signaling effect on private creditors and that several interventions in sequence may...
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Signalling effects of a large player in a global game of creditor coordination
Schüle, Tobias; Stadler, Manfred - 2005
creditors, and analyze the signalling effects of the largecreditor's investment decision on the subsequent behavior of the small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301815
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Honesty in a Signaling Model of Tax Evasion
Pruzhansky, Vitaly - 2004
We study the phenomenon of tax evasion using a simple signaling model, in which the signal is taxpayer's reported income. The novelty of our approach lies in the way we define honesty. Specifically, we advocate the view that there are no absolutely honest taxpayers: all taxpayers may under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325501