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Of coase, cattle, and crime : why the Becker model is compatible with a moral theory of criminal law

Miceli, Thomas J. - 2022

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Shavell, Steven - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 139-182). 2007

This is a survey of legal liability for accidents. Three general aspects of accident liability are addressed. The first is the effect of liability on incentives, both whether to engage in activities (for instance, whether to drive) and how much care to exercise (at what speed to travel) to...

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Chapter 11 Externalities and Growth

Klenow, Peter J.; Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés - 2005

Externalities play a central role in most theories of economic growth. We argue that international externalities, in … have international knowledge externalities. When calibrated, the hybrid model does a surprisingly good job of generating …

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Chapter 3. Property Rights, Public Goods and the Environment

Starrett, David A. - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 1, …, (pp. 97-125). 2003

We delineate the various ways in which rights to environmental and other resources can be assigned to individuals or groups. We then examine models of individual and group interactions, drawing out their implications for the ways in which resources will be utilized and managed under various...

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Chapter 51. Human Capital Externalities in Cities

Moretti, Enrico - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 4, …, (pp. 2243-2291). 2004

capital spillovers can in theory increase aggregate productivity over and above the direct effect of human capital on … externalities that accrue to local geographic areas. The focus of the chapter is on the empirical issues that arise in identifying … these externalities and on the existing empirical evidence on their magnitude. …

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Chapter 31 Prevention

Kenkel, Donald S. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1675-1720). 2000

from a societal perspective: ex ante moral hazard from health insurance, externalities from vaccinations, lack of consumer …

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Chapter 11 Military expenditure and developing countries

Deger, Saadet; Sen, Somnath - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 1, (pp. 275-307). 1995

Military expenditure in developing countries raises complex questions regarding growth, development, security and governance. This chapter provides an analytical survey of the effects and causes of defense spending in developing economies. Using stylized facts, theoretical models and empirical...

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Prevention policy in an uncertain environment

Franzoni, Luigi Alberto - In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics : JITE 178 (2022) 2, pp. 105-129

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Individuals and externalities in economic epidemiology : a tension and synthesis

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What happened on Blackstone Avenue? : recovering the origins of the coase theorem

Medema, Steven G. - 2023

This paper revisits the path by which Coase developed the result now known as the Coase theorem, including the famous meeting at the home of Aaron Director during which Coase ‘converted’ a group of Chicago economists to his way of thinking. Drawing on published and archival sources, we...

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