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Do binding agreements solve the social dilemma?

Thoron, Sylvie; Sol, Emmanuel; Willinger, Marc - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2009

We investigate experimentally whether â€œbinding agreementsâ€ can provide a solution to the social dilemma that arises in the presence of pure public goods. Signing a binding agreement can prevent players from free riding on the contributions to the public good. However, a well known...

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The true cost of milk: Environmental deterioration Vs. profit in the New Zealand dairy industry

Foote, Kyleisha; Joy, Mike - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2014

Zealand dairy farming practice incurs environmental externalities: impacts that are not paid for by the dairy farmer. Hence …, the public is left to deal with these externalities, both regarding the economic responsibility and environmental … degradation. This study estimated that the economic cost of environmental externalities is higher than the 2012 dairy export …

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Application of Coase Theorem to Analyze the Welfare Gain and Loss in a Conflict of Herdersâ€™ Damage in Croppersâ€™ Land at the Adamawa Region of Cameroon

Folefack, Achille Jean Jaza - In: Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 53

By applying the Coase theorem, this paper attempts to solve a conflict of land management between croppers producing maize on land and herders who breed cattle that needs land to graze on in the Adamawa region of Cameroon. The results indicate that, the herders commit maximum damage when their...

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Externalidades e mudanças da regulamentação ambiental para a suinocultura norte-americana: é possível no caso brasileiro?

WEYDMANN, Celso Leonardo - In: Brazilian Journal of Rural Economy and Sociology (RESR) 43 (2005) 2

This paper describes the relationship between externalities and environmental regulation in the USA hog sector to … verify the possibility to increase the stringency of regulation concerning externalities caused by hog manure in Brazil. The …

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Estimating the External Returns to Education: Evidence from China

Fan, Wen; Ma, Yuanyuan - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2012

Good understanding on the human capital externalities is important for both policy makers and social science …

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Strategic Immunization and Group Structure

Galeotti, Andrea; Rogers, Brian - Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and … - 2012

We consider the spread of a harmful state through a population divided into two groups. Interaction patterns capture the full spectrum of assortativity possibilities. We show that a central planner who aims for eradication optimally either divides equally the resources across groups, or...

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Energy endowments, barriers to trade and industry location in Chinese provinces

Hotz, Irina - Institut de recherches économiques (IRENE), Faculté … - 2012

This study analyzes the determinants of manufacturing activity across Chinese provinces with emphasis on the important role of energy endowments on the location of industries. The data set consists of a panel of 28 Chinese provinces and 13 manufacturing industries for the years 1994, 1997 and...

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Developers’ heterogeneity and real estate development timing options

Dong, Zhi; Sing, Tien Foo - In: Journal of Property Investment & Finance 35 (2017) 5, pp. 472-488

developers are advised to undertake projects having positive externalities from vicinities. Government agencies are recommended … to use tools of zoning and urban planning to prioritise developments introducing positive externalities and to facilitate …

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Heterogeneous investors and trading platforms competition

Oriol, Nathalie; Rufini, Alexandra; Torre, Dominique - In: The Journal of Risk Finance 16 (2015) 3, pp. 303-320

network externalities, and heterogeneous local trading services providers (alternative platforms and incumbent) in an … point out the importance of the trade-off between diversification and externalities. With alternative platforms entry … increase of domestic platforms’ number then has more complex effects on externalities (of information and liquidity). When the …

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Voting choice

Malenko, Andrey; Malenko, Nadya - 2023

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