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Externalities in the Workplace: A Response to a Rejoinder to a Response to a Response to a Paper

Alamar, Benjamin C.; Glantz, Stanton A. - In: Econ Journal Watch 5 (2008) 2, pp. 169-173

This paper makes a second reply to David R. Henderson, and concludes the exchange regarding the economics of smoke-free ordinances for restaurants.

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Externalities, consumption constraints and regular economies

Bonnisseau, Jean-Marc; Mercato, Elena - In: Economic Theory 44 (2010) 1, pp. 123-147

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Road accidents and tourism: the case of the Balearic Islands (Spain)

Nadal, Jaume Rosselló; Saenz-de-Miera, Óscar - Centre de Recerca Econòmica (UIB ·"Sa Nostra") - 2009

rise in tourism associated externalities with vehicle crashes being the most common cause of injury for tourists. Within …

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PEACE AND SECURITY: PROVISION AND FINANCING MECHANISMS AS A GLOBAL PUBLIC GOODS

Yilmaz, Binhan Elif - In: Anadolu University Journal of Social Sciences 10 (2010) 1, pp. 137-158

Global public goods achieved prominence with the United Nations Development Programmeâ€™s publication in 1999. Global public goods are public goods with benefits or costs (crime, terrorism and disease) that extend across countries and regions, across rich and poor population groups, an even...

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In whose backyard? A generalized bidding approach

Pérez-Castrillo, David; Wettstein, David - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2000

We analyze situations in which a group of agents (and possibly a designer) have to reach a decision that will affect all the agents. Examples of such scenarios are the location of a nuclear reactor or the siting of a major sport event. To address the problem of reaching a decision, we propose a...

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Searching, Matching and Education: a Note

Silva, João Cerejeira - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2005

In this paper the individual optimal level of education is set in a frictional labor market, where matching is not perfect. Also search frictions are a function of the average education can improve economic efficiency, not only through improvements in workers productivity, but also making the...

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Estimating Human Capital Externalities:The Case of Spanish Regions

Pérez, Manuel Hidalgo; García-Fontes, Walter - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Pablo de Olavide - 2009

We estimate the strength of schooling externalities for Spanish regions over the 1981-2001 period. Our empirical work … employs both main approaches available in the literature. Both methodologies yield significant externalities. Using a growth … accounting exercise, we find that human capital externalities account for one half of the increase in real wages for the period …

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Lindahl prices solve the NIMBY problem

Laurent-lucchetti, Jeremy; Leroux, Justin - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 3, pp. 2457-2463

The siting of public facilities such as prisons or waste disposal facilities typically faces rejection by local populations (the "NIMBY" syndrome, for Not In My BackYard). These public goods exhibit a private bad aspect creating an asymmetry: all involved communities benefit from their...

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Research and Development, Regional Spillovers, and the Location of Economic Activities

Pozzolo, Alberto - Banca d'Italia - 1998

Many empirical studies have found both inter-industry and intra-industry externalities in the form of local knowledge …

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Coalitions, Agreements and Efficiency

Diamantoudi, Effrosyni; Xue, Licun - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus

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

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