Intermediaries in decentralized markets can affect buyer welfare both directly, by reducing expenses for buyers with high search cost and indirectly, through a search-externality that affects the prices paid by buyers that do not use intermediaries. I investigate the magnitude of these effects...

Intermediaries in decentralized markets can affect buyer welfare both directly, by reducing expenses for buyers with high search cost and indirectly, through a search-externality that affects the prices paid by buyers that do not use intermediaries. I investigate the magnitude of these effects...

Canada’s Waste Flows -- Southern Canada’s Waste Management Problem -- Looking for Redemption in All the Wrong Places: Hiding Our Waste and the Cult of Recycling -- Canadian Settler Colonial Waste -- Arctic Wasteland -- Wasting Animals -- A Good Soup -- Wasting (in) the Anthropocene -- The...

This paper argues that intermediaries in decentralized markets can affect buyer welfare both directly, by reducing the expenses of buyers with high search cost but also indirectly, through a search-externality that affects the prices paid by those buyers that do not use intermediaries. These two...

Little is known about the volume of international recycling in Asia, the problems caused and the struggle to properly manage the trade. This pathbreaking book addresses this gap in the literature, and provides a comprehensive overview of the international trade flow of recyclable waste in Asia...

"Little is known about the volume of international recycling in Asia, the problems caused and the struggle to properly manage the trade. This pathbreaking book addresses this gap in the literature, and provides a comprehensive overview of the international trade flow of recyclable waste in Asia...

We contribute to the theoretical and empirical literature on waste trade, with a focus on the secondhand market of plastic materials. To do this, we take two main steps: we first model a two-country setting with an exporting and an importing country, to derive testable predictions on how their...

Governments appear increasingly inclined to resort to border and domestic measures that restrict the export of raw materials. For industrial raw materials, the OECD is constructing an Inventory of measures that have been applied since 2009. The underlying survey covers some 100 countries, some...