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Group selection : the quest for social preferences
Salomonsson, Marcus - 2009
formation, and reproductive externalities. -- Altruism ; spite ; externalities ; conformity ; fixation ; signalling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811816
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Local communities in front of big external investors : an opportunity or a risk?
Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - 2010
exposed to external investments. The objective of the proposed two-sector model with environmental externalities is to provide … the two typologies of actors. -- Foreign Direct Investments ; Environmental Negative Externalities ; Structural Changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008746858
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The role and evolution of central authorities
Frijters, Paul; Tieman, Alexander F. - 1999
In this paper we argue that authorities aid cooperation by means ofdirect coordination or the enforcement of re-commitment devices suchas contract laws.Credible threats of violence allow this role. In alocal interaction model, an authority forms if mutually connected individuals with sufficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302150
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Externalities and subsidization of higher education : conference paper
Winter, Stefan; Pfitztner, Alexander - 2013
positive externalities. Without subsidization, so the story reads, there would be an underinvestment in higher education. This … paper shortly reviews theoretical arguments as well as empirical evidence on externalities. It is found that evidence on … positive externalities is quite limited. What is more, evidence on negative externalities of higher education has been mainly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338372
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Contracting Externalities and Mandatory Menus in the U.S. Corporate Bankruptcy Code
Bernardo, Antonio E. - 2015
distress ex-post. If fire-sale liquidation imposes negative externalities on their peers, then firms can be collectively better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034519
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Health and knowledge externalities : implications for growth and public policy
Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011937557
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Health and knowledge externalities : implications for growth and public policy
Agénor, Pierre-Richard - In: Human capital and economic growth : the impact of …, (pp. 251-293). 2019
rearing. Growth dynamics depend in important ways on the externalities associated with knowledge and health. Depending on the … strength of these externalities, increases in government spending on education or health (financed by a cut in unproductive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156107
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The phenomenon of summer diarrhea and its waning, 1910-1930
Anderson, D. Mark; Rees, Daniel I.; Wang, Tianyi - 2019
During the first two decades of the 20th century, diarrheal deaths among American infants and children surged every summer. Although we still do not know what pathogen (or pathogens) caused this phenomenon, the consensus view is that it was eventually controlled through public health efforts at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993519
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The accident externality from trucking
Muehlenbachs, Lucija A.; Staubli, Stefan; Chu, Ziyan - 2017
The presence of a heavy truck on the road can impose an externality if accidents occur that would not have otherwise. We find each additional truck on the road increases the risk of a truck accident – but also, at an even higher rate, the risk of a car-on-car collision. Our estimates imply two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731933
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Predictors of Social Distancing and Mask-Wearing Behavior : Panel Survey in Seven U.S. States
Nikolov, Plamen; Pape, Andreas; Tonguc, Ozlem; … - 2021
This paper presents preliminary summary results from a longitudinal study of participants in seven U.S. states during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to standard socio-economic characteristics, we collect data on various economic preference parameters: time, risk, and social preferences, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315274