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How do GM / non GM coexistence regulations affect markets and welfare?
Desquilbet, Marion; Poret, Sylvaine - 2011
endogenous cropchoices and prices, we study the effects of ex ante regulation and ex post liability of GMO producers onmarket …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442835
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Possible Solutions to the Rhode Island State Government’s Unfunded Pension Liability
Blunt, Derek - 2010
This paper examines the possible causes of the nationwide unfunded public pension liability problem in the U.S., and … evaluate the effects of different recommendations on their ability to decrease the unfunded liability’s outstanding sum. This … fiscal effects the solutions will have on the outstanding liability. Finally I conclude with a set of solid analytical and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450209
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Would Subsidizing a Food Pathogen Vaccine Upset the Food Policy Applecart
Marette, Stephan; Roe, Brian E.; Teisl, Mario F. - 2010
Vaccines against several common foodborne pathogens are being developed and could substantially alter the policy tools available to address foodborne illness. However, little analysis is available to suggest how social welfare would be affected by these new vaccines. To address this void, we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446134
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Pollution perception. An inquiry into intergenerational equity
Schuhmacher, Ingmar; Zou, Benteng - 2005
In this article we extend the recent literature on overlapping generations with a pollution sector by allowing generations to have a certain pollution perception with regards to the stock of pollution. Pollution perception, assumed to be part of the generations' preferences, can be either a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009452479
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Regulatory bias in the price structure of local telephone services
Pérez Montes, Carlos - 2012
Incluye bibliografía ; This article combines a discrete choice model of demand for residential local telephone access and an optimal price regulation model to estimate the welfare weights that state regulators place on consumers with different incomes and locations. I fi nd no evidence of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012548699
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Anticipated shocks, optimal monetary policy, and welfare
Roland Winkler - 2009
Intertemporal general-equilibrium models with Keynesian features such as imperfect competition and imperfectly flexible prices which give rise to a (at least) short-run non-neutrality of monetary policy have become the workhorse model for monetary macroeconomics. This thesis now makes four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009428969
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Nonindustrial private forestland owners: Estimating responses to economic and demographic changes
Snider, Anthony Glenn - 2002
This research endeavor consisted of two distinct efforts. First, following a literature review of the characteristics, objectives, and incentive programs available to nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) landowners, the potential effects of wood chip mill harvests on forest management practices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431154
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14.03 Intermediate Applied Microeconomics, Fall 2000
Autor, David H. - 2000
Presents basic theory and applications of consumer and producer behavior and welfare analysis at an intermediate level … theory and applications of consumer and producer behavior and welfare analysis at an intermediate level. In addition to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432486
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Shared Versus Separate Networks - The Impact of Reprovisioning
Sen, Soumya; Guérin, Roch A; Hosanagar, Kartik - 2009
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438861
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Essays in international finance and search theory.
Wicas, Nelson Walter - 1992
This dissertation contains three essays that can be read independently. The first chapter examines how a debt crisis can occur and persist as a result of unanticipated, transitory, real interest rate and commodity price shocks. Using an optimal stopping framework, the debtor country's optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439095