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Human and cultural capital complementarities and externalities in economic growth

BUCCI, Alberto; SEGRE, Giovanna - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2009

The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of culture, viewed according to Throsby’s definition of cultural capital (that is, an asset of tangible and intangible cultural expressions), in fostering economic growth. Recent literature in the field of cultural economics highlights a...

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Contributing or Free-Riding? Voluntary Participation in a Public Good Economy

Konishi, Hideo; Furusawa, Taiji - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2008

We consider a (pure) public goods provision problem with voluntary participation in a quasi-linear economy. We propose a new hybrid solution concept, the free-riding-proof core (FRP-Core), which endogenously determine a contribution group, public good provision level, and its cost-sharing. The...

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Under-connected and Over-connected Networks

Hellmann, Tim; Buechel, Berno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

. We approach this omission by analyzing the role of positive and negative externalities of link formation. This yields … general results that relate situations of positive externalities with stable networks that cannot be “too dense” in a well …-defined sense, while situations with negative externalities tend to induce “too dense” networks. …

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Profit maximizing in auctions of public goods

ALBOTH, Dirk; LERNER, Anat; SHALEV, Jonathan - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1998

A profit-maximizing auctioneer can provide a public good to a group of agents. Each group member has a private value for the good being provided to the group. We investigate an auction mechanism where the auctioneer provides the good to the group, only if the sum of their bids exceeds a reserve...

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Coalitions, agreements and efficiency

DIAMANTOUDI, Effrosyni; XUE, Licun - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2002

class of coalition formation games with externalities where agents' preferences depend solely on the coalition structures …

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Delegation Versus Centralization: The Role of Externalities

Currarini, Sergio; Feri, Francesco - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2006

We study a simple contracting game with a principal and two agents. Contracts exert an externalities on non contractors …

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A Total Social Factor Productivity Index for the UK Food Chain Post-Farm Gate

Barnes, Andrew Peter; McVittie, Alistair - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

externalities within the food chain. Generally, whilst TFP growth rates are low over the period 1998-2002, these have reduced even … further when negative externalities are included. …

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Social Costs of Herbicide Resistance: The Case of Resistance to Glyphosate

Marsh, Sally P.; Llewellyn, Rick S.; Powles, Stephen B. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

Unlike in the pesticide and antibiotic resistance literature, potential social costs and externalities associated with … considered less mobile, compared to insects and diseases, suggesting that externalities resulting from resistance spread will be …

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Using Incentives to Buy Land-Use Change in Agriculture for Environmental Benefits

Pannell, David J. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

In general, the use of incentive payments to landholders in environmental programs is poorly thought through. This article discusses situations where environmental incentive payments are more likely to be a cost-effective response by environmental funders. It is proposed that incentives can be...

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Linkages between Agriculture, Trade and the Environment in the Context of the European Union Accession

Toma, Luiza; Mathijs, Erik; Revoredo-Giha, Cesar - Land Economy and Environment Group, Scotland's Rural College - 2006

This paper analyses the impact of trade on environment in Romania using a partial equilibrium model of bilateral trade in beef between Romania and the EU. We use a recursive dynamic model to analyse beef production and trade and adjust it as to include a component to evaluate the impact of...

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