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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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Self-protection and insurance with interdependencies
Kunreuther, Howard; Muermann, Alexander - 2007
potential contamination from others. If individuals cannot coordinate their actions, then the positive externality of investing … through deductibles or selling 'at-fault' insurance can partially internalize this externality and thereby improve individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298371
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Dynamics between antibiotic drug use and resistance: An economic approach
Frank, Uwe; Kaier, Klaus - 2009
In Europe, the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance (AMR) has become a serious public health threat. Rational antibiotic policy, combined with enforcement of infection control practices are key strategies to combat AMR in the hospital setting. Using timeseries analysis, we calculated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300858
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Publicity and the Clustering of IPO Underpricing
Cao, Melanie; Shi, Shouyong - 1999
We explain why underpricing in IPOs can be large in magnitude and clustered, using a signalling model where firms have private information about their qualities (high or low). A novel feature is that a firm, if perceived by the market as high quality, benefits from the industry's publicity which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940618
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Externalities, Monopoly and the Objective Function of the Firm
Milne, Frank; Kelsey, David - 2005
This paper provides a theory of general equilibrium with externalities and/or monopoly. We assume that the firm's decisions are based on the preferences of shareholders and/or other stakeholders. Under these assumptions, a firmrm will produce fewer negative externalities than the comparable...
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Imbalance Effects in the Lucas Model: an Analytical Exploration
Boucekkine, Raouf; Ruiz Tamarit, Ramon - In: Contributions in Macroeconomics 4 (2004) 1
Abstract In this note, we extend Xie (JET, 1994) to solve analytically the Lucas model with a weak externality in a …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438975
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266995
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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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