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Measuring the Sustainability of the UK Food Chain

Barnes, Andrew Peter; McVittie, Alistair - Land Economy and Environment Group, Scotland's Rural College - 2006

Productivity (TFP) index and for prominent externalities emerging from the food chain over the period 1998 to 2002. TFP shows an … growth over the entirety of this period. In addition, major externalities of environmental and social costs have increased …

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Individual earnings and educational externalities in the European Union

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Tselios, Vassilis - Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Madrileño de … - 2009

This paper examines whether differences in educational externalities affect individual earnings across regions in the … and supra-regional educational externalities generate significant pecuniary benefits for workers. These findings are …

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Non-Catastrophic Endogenous Growth with Pollution and Abatement

Aznar-Márquez, J.; Ruiz-Tamarit, J.R. - Centro de Estudios Andaluces, Government of Andalusia - 2004

When there are pollution externalities the competitive equilibrium is not Pareto-optimal nor environmentally …

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Interactions Between Workers and the Technology of Production: Evidence from Professional Baseball

Gould, Eric D; Winter, Eyal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper examines how the effort choices of workers within the same firm interact with each other. In contrast to the existing literature, we show that workers can affect the productivity of their co-workers based on income maximization considerations, rather than relying on behavioural...

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Externalities in the Matching of Workers and Firms in Britain

Burgess, Simon; Profit, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

We provide empirical evidence on the nature of spatial externalities in a matching model for Britain. We use a monthly …

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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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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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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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