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costs and benefits of alternative institutional arrangements. The cases he chose generally involved technical innovation … which produced new benefits as well as harmful effects, producing many insights into how society responds to innovation …
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Purpose – Which retail services are co-located in space? Is it possible to categorize retail stores of different kinds with respect to their location pattern? Acknowledging the spatial dependency between different and similar kinds of retailing activities, the aim of this paper is to find if...
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Abstract With the view of marriage as a legal institution to internalize externalities, I examine the effect of … two years. These results on the whole imply that marriage internalizes the negative externalities of smoking and thus …
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, emphasizing both the positive and negative externalities generated by the publication of information. Our model highlights two …
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innovation is obtained, auctions licenses to a pool of producers. Each producer has a private valuation for the license and …
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sources of welfare loss: production externalities and product selection bias associated with fixed costs. We argue that the …
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The American savings rate, always low by international standards, has fallen sharply in recent decades. In this essay, I argue that a large part of the savings shortfall results from pressures to keep pace with community spending standards, pressures that have been exacerbated by rising income...
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Standard economic intuition of revealed preference implies that when two parties freely enter into a contract then neither should be worse off. In this study, we develop a simple model showing that introducing the opportunity to contract can lower welfare for some, and perhaps all, contracting...
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. Sustained per-capita growth results from positive externalities of investment which for its part only occur if workers devote …
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externalities. Accordingly, many models in economic theory can be interpreted as dealing with endogenous tastes. It is shown that … changes in tastes have a direct and an indirect impact on welfare. The literature on externalities usually focuses on the … Geschmack ist analytisch den externen Effekten eng verwandt. Deshalb können viele Modelle in der ökonomischen Theorie als …
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