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information is shared, externalities arise. The standard conditions for the two fundamental welfare theorems, thus, implicitly …
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information is shared, externalities arise. The standard conditions for the two fundamental welfare theorems, thus, implicitly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012875989
Using the method of Caballero and Lyons (1990, 1992), I examine detailed Swedish manufacturing firm-level data on output and factor inputs from 1979 through 1994. Panel regressions show that an increase in aggregate output and inputs appears to raise individual firms production beyond private...
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This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions of both labor cost and productivity display a wide support, even when disaggregated by sector of industrial activity. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered...
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- France, Germany, Italy and the UK - spanning from the mid-90s to the mid-00s. The more innovative sectors are actually those …
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This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions of both labor cost and productivity display a wide support, even when disaggregated by sector of industrial activity. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730395
Proposed alternatives to GDP as a measure of social welfare or human progress are briefly evaluated. Four main categories are considered, namely ISEW and GPI based on corrections of GDP, sustainable or green(ed) GDP, genuine savings/investments and composite indexes. All these alternatives turn...
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In the absence of externalities, marginality is equivalent to an independence property that rests on Harsanyi … and independence for games with externalities. We measure a player‘s contribution in an embedded coalition by the change …. The introduced method also allows us to investigate egalitarian solutions and to reveal how accounting for externalities …
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investigate the incentives to expend effort for a prize that produces consumption externalities and consider alternative … regulatory policies. We find relatively more global consumption externalities will increase (decrease) rent seeking when … consumption externalities are negative (positive). We show how introducing Pigouvian taxation (possibly with revenue transfer) and …
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This paper discusses a number of issues that will become increasingly important nowthat the concept of marginal external cost pricing becomes more likely to be implementedas a policy strategy in transport in reality. The first part of the paper deals with thelong-run efficiency of marginal...
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