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positive externalities, using a “carrot” rather than a “stick.” Nevertheless, much confusion remains regarding its concept and …

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Government Spending Undercover : Spending Programs Administered by the IRS

Batchelder, Lily L.; Toder, Eric J. - 2010

When policymakers look to trim fat from the federal government they too often ignore half the problem: the vast and complicated set of spending programs administered by the IRS. These programs are often referred to as tax expenditures, but this paper argues that they should be viewed just like...

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Speech, Spillovers, and the First Amendment

Frischmann, Brett M. - 2009

focuses on (i) the economics of speech externalities and (ii) the functional role of the First Amendment in constraining the … government's ability to force or enable actors to internalize externalities associated with their speech. When viewed from an … spillovers (positive externalities) and functions more broadly as an institution that sustains a spillover-rich cultural …

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Protecting the Inner Environment : What Privacy Regulation Can Learn from Environmental Law

Hirsch, Dennis D. - 2013

share a common conceptual structure. Both are negative externalities. Moreover, in the absence of regulation, both will …

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Digging Deeper into Hardin's Pasture : The Complex Institutional Structure of 'The Tragedy of the Commons'

Cole, Daniel H.; Epstein, Graham; McGinnis, Michael D. - 2014

The institutional and ecological structure of Hardin’s “tragedy of the commons” appears deceptively simple: the open-access pasture eventually will be overexploited and degraded unless (i) it is privatized, (ii) the government regulates access and use, or (iii) the users themselves impose...

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International Tax Implications of Cloud Computing

Koukoulioti, Vasiliki; Reed, Chris - 2022

The current tax laws are based heavily on concepts of physical geography, such as controlling premises and physical equipment or employing staff in the jurisdiction. The geographical concepts do not accommodate the cloud business model in any sensible way. As a consequence, the taxation of cloud...

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Moral Rules and the Moral Sentiments : Toward a Theory of an Optimal Moral System

Kaplow, Louis; Shavell, Steven - 2001

We examine how moral sanctions and rewards, notably the moral sentiments involving feelings of guilt and virtue, would be employed to govern individuals' behavior if the objective were to maximize social welfare. In our model, we analyze how the optimal use of guilt and virtue is influenced by...

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A Ricardian Model of the Tragedy of the Commons

Lasserre, Pierre; Soubeyran, Antoine - 2001

This paper revisits the tragedy of the commons when agents have different capabilities in both production and encroachment activities, and can allocate their time between them. Under fairly general assumptions on production and encroachment technologies, an individual's expected income is convex...

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Tastes, Values, and the Future of Law and Economics

Zamir, Eyal - 2017

This is a Review of Guido Calabresi’s fascinating and thought-provoking new book, The Future of Law and Economics (presented in a book symposium held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in December 2016). The Review proposes to break the notion of commodification, as used by Calabresi, into...

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Privacy, Public Goods and the Tragedy of the Trust Commons : A Response to Professors Fairfield and Engel

Hirsch, Dennis D. - 2019

User trust is an essential resource for the information economy. Without it, people will share less of their personal information and the digital economy will falter. Companies that use personal information do not protect this resource sufficiently. Instead, many take advantage of it for...

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