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Quasilinear preferences on a public good and a numeraire good are limits of preferences where both goods are normal. The set of equilibria of the voluntary contribution (or private provision) game is easily characterized under quasilinearity by: top valuators aggregately contribute their common...
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In a relatively recent paper, Gehrig and Stenbacka (Eur Econ Rev 51, 77-99, 2007) show that information sharing increases banks' profits to the detriment of creditworthy entrepreneurs in a model of a banking duopoly with switching costs and poaching. They restrict their analysis to the case in...
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The division problem consists of allocating a given amount of an homogeneous and perfectly divisible good among a group of agents with singlepeaked preferences on the set of their potential shares. A rule proposes a vector of shares for each division problem. Most of the literature has...
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The article proposes an enabling mechanism for the creation, adjustment and dissolution of governmental units, giving autonomy to each individual as in a direct democracy. The mechanism is designed such that Pareto optimality is possible, in contrast to earlier models which make various...
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) literature. This stream seeks to explain the phenomenon of preferential resource allocation. That is, how can firms obtain better … resources from a resource environment that is shared with competitors? Although preferential resource allocation has revealed to … the social interactions among cluster firms to explain the concept of preferential resource allocation. More specifically …
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widely accepted that windfall profits gained through free allocation of ETS certificates play an important role. Yet the … quantification of allocation-related investment distortions has been limited to back-of-the envelope calculations and stylized models … so far. We close this gap with a numerical model integrating both Germany's particular allocation rules and its specific …
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, the German national allocation plan was far too generous, too complex and not very calculable. Also, the EU ETS led to … unintended distribution effects, for example windfall profits. The second National Allocation Plan (NAP II) for 2008-2012 was …
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States elaborate and the Commission assesses national allocation plans for this period. The Commission has also triggered the … this review process a first focus is the examination whether longer allocation periods can improve investor certainty …. Furthermore a discussion on harmonisation of installation definitions and allocation rules is intended. The role of auctioning of …
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