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externalities and the method of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) make part of this device. From its application the adoption of measures …
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reviews some of the literature and economic theory related to externalities, and focuses on two particular economist … situations where choices are incompatible, (often referred to as externalities) and proposing solutions. This presentation …
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This paper investigates the impact of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer program in Colombia, on participant credit behavior. The motivation of the research is derived from previous studies which indicate that conditional cash transfer programs have effects on households aside from...
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significance of these responses to congestion externalities, and argue that they need to be taken into account in designing … internalization instruments. We consider labor-leisure, regional labor mobility and house price responses to congestion externalities … consequences of internalizing externalities. If adaptation is present, externalities will be partially internalized, the gains from …
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. We approach this gap by analyzing the role of positive and negative externalities of link formation. We find general … results that relate situations of positive externalities with stable networks that cannot be "too dense" in a well …-defined sense, while situations with negative externalities, tend to induce "too dense" networks. …
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Description This half semester class presents an introduction to macroeconomic modeling, focusing on the theory of economic growth …
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We develop a dynamic model of livestock disease and decentralized economic behavior as a jointly-determined system. By accounting for feedbacks between behavioral choices and disease outcomes we capture the endogenous nature of infection risks. We consider government mandated testing of...
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We explore in this paper the consequences of status seeking preferences among agentscontracting with a private principal in the context of production. We examine in particular the case of envy and we show that in general envy entails augmented distortions due to asymmetric information in optimal...
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Conceptual development in the theory ofexternalities have opened up several policy options for their internalization … including payment towards environmental services. Hence as externalities are socialcosts, accountability is crucial in … a modest attempt has been made to estimate externalities in water, forests and environment with field data from …
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As networks improve and new services emerge, questions arise that affect service deployments and network choices. The Internet is arguably a successful example of a network shared by many services. However, combining heterogeneous services on the same network need not always be the right answer,...
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