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Is the Treatment of Economic Loss by the Australian Courts in Torts Cases Anomalous?

Torre, Andrew; Clifford, Adrian - In: European Journal of Law and Economics 20 (2005) 2, pp. 145-164

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A recursive core for partition function form games

Kóczy, László - In: Theory and Decision 63 (2007) 1, pp. 41-51

We present a well-defined generalisation of the core to coalitional games with externalities, where the value of a …

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Corrective Ad Valorem and Unit Taxes: A Welfare Comparison

Dröge, Susanne; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

The ad valorem versus unit taxes debate has traditionally emphasized tax yield. For this criterion, ad valorem taxes outperform unit taxes in terms of welfare for a wide range of imperfect competition settings, including Dixit-Stiglitz monopolistic competition. Yet, in a number of policy fields,...

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Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of...

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City size and the quality of marriages: Evidence from 3 societies

Botticelli, Maristella; Siow, Aloysius - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

The paper investigates how marriage rates and the gains to marriage are affected by city size in three societies, medieval Tuscany, China in 1980 and the United States in 2000. Internal migration was severely limited in China until the late seventies. Population supplies in each US city were...

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Are Nash Tax Rates too Low or Too High? The Role of Endogenous Growth in Models with Public Goods

Economides, George; Philippopoulos, Apostolis - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 6 (2003) 1, pp. 37-53

externalities imply that Nash tax rates are inefficiently high and increase with the size of population (Copyright: Elsevier) …

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Smart Café Cities: Testing Human Capital Externalities in the Boston Metropolitan Area

Fu, Shihe - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2005

Existing studies have explored either only one or two of the mechanisms that human capital externalities percolate at … labor market externalities, Jacobs labor market externalities, and thickness of the local labor market. We find that all … types of human capital externalities are significant across census tracts and blocks. Marshallian labor market externalities …

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When are Anonymous Congestion Charges Consistent with Marginal Cost Pricing?

Arnott, Richard; Kraus, Marvin - Department of Economics, Boston College - 1997

There are constraints on pricing congestible facilities. First, if heterogeneous users are observationally indistinguishable, then congestion charges must be anonymous. Second, the time variation of congestion charges may be constrained. Do these constraints undermine the feasibility of marginal...

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Congestion Tolling with Agglomeration Externalities

Arnott, Richard - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2007

Consider an urban economy with two types of externalities, negative traffic congestion externalities and positive … agglomeration externalities deriving from non-market interaction. Suppose that urban travel can be tolled, that non …

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A Cournot Mechanism for Pollution Control under Asymmetric Information

McKitrick, Ross - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 14 (1999) 3, pp. 353-363

The contribution of this paper is to show that a simple nonlinear tax can achieve a long-run socially optimal level of pollution without the regulator knowing marginal abatement costs. Firms are charged their differential contribution to total damages, evaluated at the upper margin of current...

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