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The Economics of Natural Disasters
Hallegatte, Stéphane; Przyluski, Valentin - In: CESifo Forum 11 (2010) 2, pp. 14-24
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A reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff.
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2005
This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on ?frictional growth,? describing the … effects. Although our theory contains no money illusion, no permanent nominal rigidities, and no departure from rational … expectations, there is a long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Our empirical analysis suggests that this Phillips curve may be …
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The Law of Unintended Consequences: How the U.S. Biofuel Tax Credit with a Mandate Subsidizes Oil Consumption and Has No Impact on Ethanol Consumption
de Gorter, Harry; Just, David R. - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2007
With a mandate, U.S. policy of ethanol tax credits designed to reduce oil consumption does the exact opposite. A tax credit is a direct gasoline consumption subsidy with no effect on the ethanol price and therefore does not help either corn or ethanol producers. To understand this, consider...
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Social costs of POS payments in the Netherlands 2002-2012: Efficiency gains from increased debit card usage
Jonker, Nicole - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2013
The overall costs of the payment system to society are considerable. These costs depend on the relative usage of the available payment instruments, which differ in the costs that each entails to market participants in the payment chain. In the Netherlands, debit card payments have become less...
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Forme urbaine et mobilité : les coûts collectifs des différents types d'extension urbaine dans l'agglomération milanaise
Camagni, Roberto; Gibelli, Maria Cristina; Rigamonti, Paolo - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine février (2002) 1, pp. 105-139
The relationships between urban form, mobility and sustainability have been widely debated in recent times, often with some prejudice and ideological touch, unfortunately. The advantages and disadvantages of the « compact city » vs. the dispersed city or « ville éclatée », have been...
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The social costs of unemployment: Accounting for unemployment duration
Ochsen, Carsten; Welsch, Heinz - Institut für Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Rostock - 2006
The social costs of unemployment, in terms of unemployment's impact on European citizens' life satisfaction, relate strongly to unemployment duration. At any level of general joblessness, reducing long-term unemployment is more important than reducing the number of people unemployed at any point...
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NEED FOR PREDICTING EXPENDITURES OF LOCAL BUDGETS MODERN CONDITIONS OF ECONOMY OF UKRAINE
SUKRUSHEVA G.O. - In: ВІСНИК ЕКОНОМІКИ ТРАНСПОРТУ І … (2011) 3, pp. 86-90
Determined the need for prediction of local spending by aggregate spending, the choice of forecasting on the basis of economic-mathematical modeling.
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The Price of Smoking
Sloan, Frank A.; Ostermann, Jan; Conover, Christopher; … - The MIT Press
What does a pack of cigarettes cost a smoker, the smoker's family, and society? This longitudinal study on the private and social costs of smoking calculates that the cost of smoking to a 24-year-old woman smoker is $86,000 over a lifetime; for a 24-year-old male smoker the cost is $183,000. The...
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Gambling Policy in the European Union: Too Many Losers?
Forrest, David - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 64 (2008) 4, pp. 540-569
The paper reviews the case for special taxes on gambling services from a traditional public-finance perspective. Evidence suggests that high taxes are likely to hurt recreational consumers badly while not necessarily mitigating problem play. Taxes on gambling are also shown to be regressive,...
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Comparative Vigilance: a Simple Guide
Feldman, Allan M; Singh, Ram - Brown University, Department of Economics - 2008
In this paper we discuss a new tort liability rule, which we call super-symmetric comparative negligence and vigilance. When both injurer and victim in an accident are negligent, it provides for liability shares that depend on the degrees of negligence of the two parties, similar to the standard...
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