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Umweltverschmutzung als länderübergreifendes Problem am Beispiel der globalen Erwärmung

Ahn, Young-Cheul - 2007

Diese Arbeit versucht, die wirtschaftliche Bedeutung der globalen Erwärmung zu erklären und die Lösung dieses Problems zu finden. Die globale Erwärmung als länderübergreifendes Problems kann durch das marktwirtschaftliche Preissystem gelöst werden, besonders durch den internationalen...

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Modeling the dynamics of network technology adoption and the role of converters

Sen, Soumya; Jin, Youngmi; Guérin, Roch; Hosanagar, Kartik - 2009

New network technologies constantly seek to displace incumbents. Their success depends on technological superiority, the size of the incumbent's installed base, users' adoption behaviors, and various other factors. The goal of this paper is to develop an understanding of competition between...

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Democratic climate policies with overlapping generations

Goussebaïle, Arnaud - 2022

An extensive climate policy literature provides various recommendations, but they are not supported democratically since the models employed consider either infinitely-lived individuals or normative social objectives (or both). In contrast, the present paper provides policy recommendations that...

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The effect of altruism on COVID-19 vaccination rates

Hierro, Luis Á.; Patiño, David; Atienza, Pedro; … - In: Health Economics Review 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-12

Background: After the emergence of the frst vaccines against the COVID-19, public health authorities have promoted mass vaccination in order to achieve herd immunity and reduce the efects of the disease. Vaccination rates have difered between countries, depending on supply (availability of...

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Urban congestion charging : road pricing as a traffic reduction measure / W. Heyns

Heyns, Werner - 2005

Urban traffic congestion is recognised as a major problem by most people in world cities. However, theimplementation of congestion reducing measures on a wide scale eludes most world cities suffering fromtraffic congestion, as many oppose the notion of road pricing and despite economists and...

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Competition as a socially desirable dilemma theory vs. experimental evidence

Engel, Christoph - 2009

Cartels are inherently instable. Each cartelist is best off if it breaks the cartel, while the remaining firms remain loyal. If firms interact only once, if products are homogenous, if firms compete in price, and if marginal cost is constant, theory even predicts that strategic interaction...

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We are not alone: the impact of externalities on public good provision

Engel, Christoph; Rockenbach, Bettina - 2009

Providing public goods is hard, because providers are best off free-riding. Is it even harder if one group's public good is a public bad for another group or, conversely, gives the latter a windfall profit? We experimentally study public goods provision embedded in a social context and find that...

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We Are Not Alone: The Impact of Externalities on Public Good Provision

Rockenbach, Bettina; Engel, Christoph - 2010

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Beyond cash: Assessing externality and behaviour effects of non-experimental cash transfers

Ribas, Rafael Perez; Soares, Fábio Veras; Teixeira, … - 2010

In this paper we propose a method to estimate externality effects in cash transfer programmes, even in cases when the … benefit is not randomly assigned. Externality is assessed through the decomposition of the average treatment effect on the … treated (ATT) into participation (direct) effect and externality (indirect) effect. We also suggest a nonparametric …

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Externality and behavioural change effects of a non-randomised CCT programme: Heterogeneous impact on the demand for health and education

Teixeira, Clarissa Gondim; Soares, Fabio Veras; Ribas, … - 2011

treatment effect on the treated (ATT) into participation and externality effect. This decomposition was possible thanks to the … use of two distinct comparison groups, one within the village and possibly exposed to the externality, and another in a …-beneficiary families (no externality effect). In the pilot phase, with no conditionality enforcement in place, the role of conditionality …

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