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, an appropriately designed lottery can implement an efficient allocation in pure-strategy Nash equilibrium. The lottery …
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contributions. They coincide in yielding efficient outcomes. Our focal equilibrium notions are the Multiplicative Kantian Equilibrium … in the Kant-Roemer modelling and the Balanced Linear Cost Share Equilibrium for the Wicksell-Lindahl approach. It turns …
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generations can take place if the equilibrium social norm links BIGs and FIGs. The tools developed here can be used to understand …
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attributes of other individuals or firms that choose the same or nearby locations in equilibrium. The main goal of this paper is … to develop the equilibrium properties of a broadly applicable and readily estimable class of sorting models that allow … that a unique equilibrium is more likely to obtain (i) the smaller are any agglomeration effects, (ii) the larger are the …
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attributes of other individuals or firms that choose the same or nearby locations in equilibrium. The main goal of this paper is … to develop the equilibrium properties of a broadly applicable and readily estimable class of sorting models that allow … that a unique equilibrium is more likely to obtain (i) the smaller are any agglomeration effects, (ii) the larger are the …
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During the 1950s and 1960s, many economists were convinced that externalities were a cause of "market failures" -- because individuals are not capable of internalizing the costs their actions impose to others -- and therefore that the intervention of the state was necessary to allow an efficient...
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This paper analyzes the extent to which international public goods and agency problems are present in international organizations. A noncooperative model of the funding choices of donor countries and the subsequent policy choices of an international agency is used to develop hypotheses about the...
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Baumol's cost disease states that relatively high productivity growth in manufacturing induces a steady increase in the relative price of human services. If demand for these services is inelastic or manufactured goods are necessities, the budget share of these services inexorably rises over time...
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This paper studies constitutional restrictions on the tax base that protect future generations from expropriation and improve the optimality of investment in Intergenerational Public Goods (IPGs). The choice of the tax base matters because it affects how intergenerational (IG) spillovers are...
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This paper examines the ability of a policy maker to control equilibrium outcomes in a global coordination game …; applications include currency attacks, bank runs, and debt crises. A unique equilibrium is known to survive when the policy is …
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