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I don't want to hear about it: Rational ignorance among duty-orientd consumers

Nyborg, Karine - 2008

Individuals with a preference for keeping moral obligations may dislike learning that voluntary contributions are socially valuable: Such information can trigger unpleasant feelings of cognitive dissonance. I show that if initial beliefs about the social value of contributions are sufficiently...

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Keeping both eyes wide open: The life of a competitive authority among sectoral regulators

Barros, Pedro P.; Hoernig, Steffen; Nilssen, Tore - 2008

Competition authorities must pay attention to many industries simultaneously. Sectoral regulators concentrate on their …. We show how a competition authority's resource allocation is affected by its relationships with sectoral regulators and … their biases. If agencies collaborate (compete), the competition authority spends more effort on the industry with the more …

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Incentives for environmental R&D

Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael - 2011

Since governments can influence the demand for a new abatement technology through their environmental policy, they may be able to expropriate innovations in new abatement technology ex post. This suggests that incentives for environmental R&D may be lower than the incentives for market goods...

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Returns-to-scale properties in DEA models: The fundmantal role of interior points

Krivonozhko, Vladimir; Førsund, Finn R. - 2009

Attempts can be found in the DEA literature to identify returns to scale at efficient interior points of the production possibility set on the basis of returns to scale at points of the corresponding reference sets. However, an opposite approach is put forward in this paper, advocating that...

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Strategic use of environmental information

Asheim, Geir B. - 2009

Strategic use of environmental information may have as consequence that a benevolent environmental agency will choose not to disclose information leading to reduced moral motivation. Thus, decision makers will not have access to such information, implying that they will not be able to adjust...

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Cutting costs of catching carbon: Intertemporal effects under imperfect climate policy

Hoel, Michael; Jensen, Svenn - 2010

We use a two-period model to investigate intertemporal eff ects of cost reductions in climate change mitigation technologies for the power sector. With imperfect climate policies, cost reductions related to carbon capture and storage (CCS) may be more desirable than comparable cost reductions...

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Is there a short-run case for protectionism? Trade policy and the business cycle

Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2011

Recently, the world economy has seen its greatest down turn since World War II. Although not as bad as during the Great Depression, there was still a worrisome increase in protectionist measures, in an attempt to mitigate the economic downturn. Protectionism can have many different faces. It can...

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Confronting the representative consumer with household-size heterogeneity

Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2010

Much analysis in macroeconomics empirically addresses economy-wide incentives behind consumer/investment choices by using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. Heterogeneity at the micro level can jeopardize attempts to back up the representative consumer...

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Joint customer data acquisition and sharing among rivals

Jentzsch, Nicola; Sapi, Geza; Suleymanova, Irina - 2010

surplus in the latter. Competition authorities ought to scrutinize such cooperation agreements on a case-by-case basis and …

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Trends in the transitory variance of male earnings in the US, 1970 - 2004

Moffitt, Robert; Gottschalk, Peter - 2011

We estimate the trend in the transitory variance of male earnings in the U.S. using the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1970 to 2004. Using both an error components model as well as simpler but only approximate methods, we find that the transitory variance started to increase in the...

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