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Intergenerational Transfers, Lifetime Welfare and Resource Preservation

Valente, Simone - EconWPA - 2005

This paper studies the welfare properties of distortionary transfers in a life-cycle growth model where natural capital is private property. The main result is that, under credible pre-commitment, each newborn generation prefers positive taxes-subsidies to laissez-faire conditions when the...

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Public-Good Productivity Differentials and Non-Cooperative Public-Good Provision

Ley, Eduardo - EconWPA - 1996

We explore the generality of Konrad and Lommerud (1995)'s Rotten Spouse Theorem. While the result holds for an arbitrary number of agents, it fails to hold for general technologies. We discuss some of the implications for CO2-emissions models.

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CIRCULAR VARIABLE WORK IN PROCESS

Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2002

This work is focused on identifying a circular pull production control system (PPCS) and make emphasis on the presence of a stability attribute. It is an introductory paper to an extended study of macroeconomic financial stability in a physically open but systemic closed system. Previous work...

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To a Mathematical Model of Economy and Environment Interaction //Mathematical modelling. 2003. V.15. No.4. P.107-121.

Demberel S.; Olenev, Nicholas; Pospelov, Igor - EconWPA - 2003

This paper presents new results of mathematical modeling of economy and environment interaction. A model of mutual interaction of livestock farming - one in a two main agricultural branches - and natural pastures that are the essential part of livestock farming forage reserve is proposed....

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MRS. GANDHI GAVE NEW ECONOMIC APPROACHES

SUBRAMANIAM, DR. VSR. - EconWPA - 2004

Plenty of food, Sufficient clothing, Proper monitoring of the Key Socio- Economic factors, with commitment to Domestic Productivity were the Essence of the Administrative strategy of Mrs. Indira Gandhi (Late Prime Minister of India). These approaches could be critically related to the remarkable...

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Asymmetric Price Adjustment "in the Small:" An Implication of Rational Inattention

Levy, Daniel; Chen, Haipeng Allan; Ray, Sourav; Bergen, Mark - EconWPA - 2004

Analyzing scanner price data that cover 27 product categories over an eight-year period from a large Mid-western supermarket chain, we uncover a surprising regularity in the data—small price increases occur more frequently than small price decreases. We find that this asymmetry holds for price...

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Contidioning Prices on Purchase History

Acquisti, Alessandro; Varian, Hal R. - EconWPA - 2002

Many transactions are now computer mediated, making it possible for sellers to condition their pricing on the history of interactions with individual consumers. This paper investigates conditions under which price conditioning will or will not be used. Our simplest model involves rational...

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Dynamic Price Adjustment Under Imperfect Competition

Eberwein, Curtis; To, Ted - EconWPA - 1998

We study dynamic price adjustment under imperfect competition when consumers have non-time-separable preferences. In our model an intertemporal link arises in the consumers' maximization problems because current consumption decisions affect the utility of future consumption. Thus future demand...

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ECONOMIC / ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM INTERACTION

Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2003

of sustainability while establishing a consistent system of units for both the solar flux and economic transformation … processes. Conditions for a virtuous cycle dynamic in relation to sustainability is expressed, adhering to non …

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Finding a path in the sustainability jungle. A framework for corporate action.

Seelos, Christian - EconWPA - 2005

Collective concerns about sustainable development and proposals about how to achieve sustainability have produced a … sustainability; and yet the lack of clear definitions has left a vacuum of corporate guidance. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR …) has become a synonym for corporate action towards sustainability, but companies continue to struggle to understand how to …

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