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This paper analyzes liability rules when consumers and third parties/the environment incur harm. Expected harm is … convex in the level of output and modeled as a power function. We show that the social ranking of liability rules previously … established for the case in which only consumers suffer harm (strict liability dominates no liability and negligence) may be …
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Free mobility has not been thought of as an effective tool to correct over- or underproduction of externalities. In … this paper, we establish that foot voting can internalize the cost of negative externalities. Workers have to accept the … can effectively influence the equilibrium wage and rent to reflect the externalities by threatening to walk away if the …
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In this paper we study the impact of diversity on regional growth by extending the existing literature in such that we differentiate between industry diversity and human capital diversity. In order to measure human capital diversity we construct a regional measure based on individual...
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This paper applies functional regression to precise geo-coded register data to measure productivity spillovers from high-skilled workers. We use a smoothing splines estimator to model the spatial distribution of high-skilled workers as continuous curves. Our rich panel data allows us to address...
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performance of market coordination crucially depends on the quality of property rights as a bundle of several acting rights. Since acting rights can be created, changed or abandoned within the political system, the scopes of political decision making processes have a deep impact on the quality...
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We study a commons problem under uncertainty, where individual actions affect the risk of a future damage event. We … condition on the relationship between actions and damage probability and the opportunity costs of precaution for this result to …
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joining the IEA set emissions to internalize some exogenously given fraction of the externalities that own emissions cause on …
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There are two types of regional development elements those are namely economic and social terms. While both developing and developed countries initially need to establish regional economic infrastructure, the next concern should be given to the social infrastructure. In local regions, the...
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