. We identify an important asymmetry between positive and negative externalities and show that centralization may not be … efficient in economies with positive externalities even when regions are identical and centralization does not entail a loss of … accountability. We also show that decentralization can only Pareto dominate centralization in economies with negative externalities. …

political impact channels. It concentrates on the economic channel, the reasoning of which is rooted in fiscal federalism theory …

Consider an environment with widespread externalities, and suppose that binding agreements can be written. We study …

welfare effects of small policy changes in the presence of transport externalities. The model incorporates three types of … externalities: congestion, which has a feedback effect on the behaviour of the economic agents, air pollution and accidents. The … the equity effects of the policy reforms. The second contribution is related to the way in which the externalities are …

Economic theory has generally akcnowledged the role that institutions have in shaping economic space. The distinction … for externalities" is misleading since it tends to imply that there is more to externality than simply the non … detrimental nature of externality. Indeed, Arrow markets will not in general eliminate externalities. In a similar vein it is not …

This paper proposes a formulation of coalitional payoff possibilities in games with externalities, based on the …