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We delineate the various ways in which rights to environmental and other resources can be assigned to individuals or groups. We then examine models of individual and group interactions, drawing out their implications for the ways in which resources will be utilized and managed under various...
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taxation, commodity taxation, tax expenditures, externalities, public goods, capital income and wealth taxation, social …
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We consider a (pure) public goods provision problem with voluntary participation in a quasi-linear economy. We propose a new hybrid solution concept, the free-riding-proof core (FRP-Core), which endogenously determines a contribution group, public goods provision level, and how to share the...
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In November 2005, 55.7 percent of 2 million Swiss voters approved a 5-year moratorium (ban) on the commercial cultivation of genetically modified (GM) plants within Switzerland. The present study examines how individual voting decisions were determined by (i) socioeconomic characteristics, (ii)...
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goods provision embedded in a social context and find that in the absence of explicit norms externalities have almost no … effect. With an endogenously formed provision norm positive as well as negative externalities dampen provision as compared to … no externalities. We explain the surprisingly low provision under positive externalities by the providers' increased risk …
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and negative externalities. A pure public good is a positive externality whose appropriable benefits are too small or too …
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We show that bounds like those of Al-Najjar and Smorodinsky (J. Econ. Theory, 2000) as well as of Gradwohl et al. (Math. Oper. Res., 2009) on the number of alpha-pivotal agents can be obtained by decomposition of variance. All these bounds have a similar asymptotic behaviour, up to constant...
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I consider a model where a principal decides whether to produce one unit of an indivisible good (e.g. a private school) and which characteristics it will contain (emphasis on language or science). Agents (parents) are differentiated along two substitutable dimensions: a vertical parameter that...
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externalities. Samuelson (1954) laid out the conditions for optimal pure public goods provision, but noted that free-riding (the …, government intervention is unnecessary. Under the conditions underlying the Coase Theorem, externalities would be self … to the controversy here by describing a previously unexplored relationship between externalities, public goods, and …
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outcome, a weighted, directed network describing marginal externalities is defined. We show that Pareto efficient outcomes are …
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