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be regulated? I study the optimal regulation of externalities via an imperfect proxy good, characterize the optimal …
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welfare by creating positive externalities for society. Rewarding such prosocial risk-taking may be an important strategy in … addressing societal challenges like, for example, the climate emergency, by promoting innovation that has positive externalities … preferences are affected by potential positive externalities of risky behaviour. …
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It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined without taking the reference process into account. The reference effect depends on how frequently individuals compare with others and on the degree of social transparency in society. In this paper we employ the...
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When agents face coordination problems their choices often impose externalities on third parties. We investigate … whether such externalities can affect equilibrium selection in a series of one-shot coordination games varying the size and … the sign of the externality. We fi?nd that third-party externalities have a limited effect on decisions. A large majority …
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morally bad instead of good. Due to this asymmetry, people punish the perpetrators of negative externalities more severely … not only moral considerations but also the information setting of perpetrators of externalities are taken into account by …
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Global environmental problems are often assumed to imply extensive inefficiencies since there is no global authority corresponding to the government at a national level. This paper shows, on the contrary, that rich countries in a free unregulated market may still undertake globally efficient...
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A substantial literature examines second-best environmental policy, focusing particularly on how the Pigouvian directive that marginal taxes should equal marginal external harms needs to be modified in light of the preexisting distortion due to labor income taxation. Additional literature is...
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This paper deals with the economy of contribution, which is a new way of thinking the economic activities. The emergence of an economy of contribution is not only a shift but also an alternative answer to the consumer capitalism. The economy of contribution is involved in the fields of Internet...
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externalities, we characterize the class of social preferences which give full priority to the individual with the lowest …
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is common knowledge that their actions produce various externalities through the training of an algorithm? In an online …
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