Dieser Beitrag untersucht die für die Medienwirtschaft relevanten Märkte mit einfachen Marktmodellen. Im Zentrum stehen die Interdependenzen zwischen Konsumgüter-, Werbe- und Medienmärkten, wobei die wichtige Rolle der Werbemärkte als ökonomischer Motor der Medienwirtschaft besonders...

In the double dividend debate following Bovenberg and de Mooij (1994) the definition of 'tax efficiency dividend' is implicitly based on the claim that by its very nature any corrective tax, and therefore any emission tax, imposes an excess burden, a claim that is also shared, e.g., by the...

In their seminal paper on production, consumption and externalities (AER, 1969), Ayres and Kneese initiated a research program on comprehensive analysis and management of residuals and pollution based on two pillars: the study of the residuals-generating materials flow subject to the mass...

This paper deals with two different types of irreversibility: Pollution irreversibility occurs if the stock of pollution cannot be reduced (any more) by nature's assimilative capacity; characteristics irreversibility occurs when some characteristic of the environmental resource is irreversibly...

The basic focus of this paper is to look at ecological tax reform from a public good perspective rather than from a Pigouvian externality cum tax reform perspective. Our point of departure is the insight, aptly expressed by Heller and Starrett (1976, p. l 0), e. g., that "one can think of...

This volume brings together 8 previously unpublished papers dealing with various modes of allocating jointly consumable goods (i.e. public goods). The issues covered range from voluntary contributions and price exclusion (market allocation) to positive and normative analyses of different...