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The interaction between habit formation and pollution-type ex- ternalities modifies the social optimum through discount effects and elasticity effects. If the substitution elasticity does not exceed unity, both effects reduce optimal consumption and capital in the long run, and the optimal...
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We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...
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We show that financial advisors recommend more costly products to female clients, based on minutes from about 27,000 real-world advisory meetings and client portfolio data. Funds recommended to women have higher expense ratios controlling for risk, and women less often receive rebates on...
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information is shared, externalities arise. The standard conditions for the two fundamental welfare theorems, thus, implicitly …
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We incorporate externalities into the stable matching theory of two-sided markets. Extending the classical substitutes … condition to markets with externalities, we establish that stable matchings exist when agent choices satisfy substitutability … externalities even though the standard fixed-point techniques do not apply. …
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This paper studies infinite-horizon bargaining between a seller and multiple buyers when externalities are present. We … externalities. Since each buyer receives a positive payoff when the seller makes an agreement with some other buyer, positive … externalities induce a war of attrition between buyers. …
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When agents face coordination problems their choices often impose externalities on third parties. We investigate … whether such externalities can affect equilibrium selection in a series of one-shot coordination games varying the size and … the sign of the externality. We find that third-party externalities have a limited effect on decisions. A large majority …
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We investigate externalities in higher education enrollment over the course of development in a two-sector model. Each … acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit productivity externalities in the size of the skill-specific labor and in the …
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Following the Brent Spar controversy, the OSPAR countries reached a unanimous agreement in 1998 for the future rules for disposal of petroleum installations. The vast majority of existing offshore installations will be re-used or returned to shore for recycling or disposal. For installations...
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paid by the winner. We study the impact of these price-externalities on the first-price auction and the second … independently from the identity of the winner. We prove that the first-price auction is not affected by this kind of price-externalities … by the presence of such price-externalities. In any case, in comparison with the first-price auction, the second …
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