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A model of externalities with sequential location choice is developed. The first mover decides on location before it …
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A model of externalities with sequential location choice is developed. The first mover decides on location before it …
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Consider a partnership consisting of two symmetrically informed parties who may each own a share of an asset. It is ex post efficient that tomorrow the party with the larger valuation gets the asset. Yet, today the parties can make investments to enhance the asset's productivity. Contracts are...
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The allocative efficiency outcome predicted by the Coase theorem critically depends on the assumption that, barring high transaction costs, parties will bargain after litigation and mis-allocated entitlements by courts will be re-allocated through voluntary exchanges. Ward Farnsworth's 1999...
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relational contracts are repeatedly newly negotiated during relationships. Negotiations take place with positive probability and …
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Subsidies and in-kind transfers give rise to negative fiscal externalities. However, internalizing negative fiscal … externalities through taxation would undo the subsidy or in-kind transfer that caused them. Similarly, positive fiscal externalities … cannot be internalized though government subsidies. This paper describes a mechanism that transfers fiscal externalities from …
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In "The Tragedy of the Commons," Garrett Hardin argues that those who can use a resource for free consume more of it than they would if they had to pay for it. Public resources eventually collapse because people overuse them. Hardin’s widely accepted argument seems correct as far as it goes,...
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