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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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situations where choices are incompatible, (often referred to as externalities) and proposing solutions. This presentation … reviews some of the literature and economic theory related to externalities, and focuses on two particular economist …
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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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The basic machines of macroeconomics. Ramsey, Solow, Samuelson-Diamond, RBCs, ISLM, Mundell-Fleming, Fischer-Taylor. How they work, what shortcuts they take, and how they can be used. Half-term subject. From the course home page: Course Description This half semester class presents an...
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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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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 … peninsular India to reflect on theeconomic perception of externalities by farmers and users of environment for the consideration …
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Die dritte Alfred-Weber-Lecture des Instituts für Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Universität Heidelberg hielt Prof. Dr. Meinhard Miegel zum Thema "Ökonomische und politische Konsequenzen des demographischen Wandels".Am Dienstag, den 13. Januar 2009, fand in der Alten Aula der...
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