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environmental externalities such as pollution. We argue that consumer contracts generate externalities by overwhelming consumers … contracts would impose on consumers. This would force sellers to internalize these costs and incentivize them to invest in …, and comprehension rates would rise. To further penalize inefficient contracts while reducing the tax burden on efficient …
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relational contracts, firms' profitability and consumers' welfare decrease. In contrast, a higher level of trust unambiguously … ; relational contracting ; interaction of explicit and implicit contracts ; welfare …
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This paper studies the relation between optimal dam capacity and water management under rivalry uses and externalities …-linear building cost of dam capacity and externalities in a welfare optimization model. We obtain the optimal dam capacity for multi …
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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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Motivated by tropical deforestation, we analyze (i) a novel theory of resource extraction, (ii) the optimal conservation contract, (iii) when the donor prefers contracting with central rather than local governments, and (iv) how the donor's presence may induce institutional change. Deforestation...
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The paper applies the notions of network cost and efficiency, drawn from complex network theory, to fully characterize the classic “market versus firm” dichotomy of Coase 1937. Thanks to network analysis, the latter emerges as a wider issue which touches every system of interconnected agents...
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This paper provides a framework for implementing and comparing several solution concepts for transferable utility cooperative games. We construct bidding mechanisms where players bid for the role of the proposer. The mechanisms differ in the power awarded to the proposer. The Shapley, consensus...
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We study the implementation of social choice rules in environments with externalities. We prove the impossibility of …
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This paper studies the relation between optimal dam capacity and water management under rivalry uses and externalities …-linear building cost of dam capacity and externalities in a welfare optimization model. We obtain the optimal dam capacity for multi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044812
encompasses many economic models with externalities and outside options. We show that when outside options are pure (i …
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