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Individuals with a preference for keeping moral obligations may dislike learning that voluntary contributions are socially valuable: Such information can trigger unpleasant feelings of cognitive dissonance. I show that if initial beliefs about the social value of contributions are sufficiently...
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Individuals with a preference for keeping moral obligations may dislike learning that voluntary contributions are socially valuable: Such information can trigger unpleasant feelings of cognitive dissonance. I show that if initial beliefs about the social value of contributions are sufficiently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751905
failures, namely: externalities, public goods, natural monopoly and information asymmetries. The present paper will focused on …
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the theories of public goods, externalities, marginal-cost cum peak-load pricing. This paper documents and attempts to …
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taxation, commodity taxation, tax expenditures, externalities, public goods, capital income and wealth taxation, social …
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and negative externalities. A pure public good is a positive externality whose appropriable benefits are too small or too …
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The challenge of achieving socially optimal incentives for innovation in public goods faces twin market failures: a market failure to adequately promote public goods invention and a market failure to implement innovative public goods once developed. Though innovation in private goods sometimes...
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goods provision embedded in a social context and find that in the absence of explicit norms externalities have almost no … effect. With an endogenously formed provision norm positive as well as negative externalities dampen provision as compared to … no externalities. We explain the surprisingly low provision under positive externalities by the providers' increased risk …
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externalities. Samuelson (1954) laid out the conditions for optimal pure public goods provision, but noted that free-riding (the …, government intervention is unnecessary. Under the conditions underlying the Coase Theorem, externalities would be self … to the controversy here by describing a previously unexplored relationship between externalities, public goods, and …
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outcome, a weighted, directed network describing marginal externalities is defined. We show that Pareto efficient outcomes are …
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