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Where Does Energy R&D Come From? Examining Crowding Out from Environmentally-Friendly R&D
Popp, David - 2009
Recent efforts to endogenize technological change in climate policy models demonstrate the importance of accounting for the opportunity cost of climate R&D investments. Because the social returns to R&D investments are typically higher than the social returns to other types of investment, any...
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Regulating Artificial Intelligence
Guerreiro, João; Rebelo, Sérgio; Teles, Pedro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We consider an environment in which there is substantial uncertainty about the potential negative external effects of …
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Externalities from Medical Innovation : Evidence from Organ Transplantation
Callison, Kevin; Darden, Michael; Teltser, Keith F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
externalities for HCV-negative patients during this period …
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When Product Markets Become Collective Traps : The Case of Social Media
Bursztyn, Leonardo; Handel, Benjamin R.; Jiménez … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Individuals might experience negative utility from not consuming a popular product. For example, being inactive on social media can lead to social exclusion or not owning luxury brands can be associated with having a low social status. We show that, in the presence of such spillovers to...
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Environmental Tax Interactions When Pollution Affects Health or Productivity
Williams, Roberton C. - 2000
Numerous recent studies have indicated that interactions with a tax-distorted labor market increase the cost of pollution regulation. However, these studies have made restrictive assumptions regarding individual preferences and have ignored key links between pollution, human health, and labor...
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Consumption Externalities and Diffusion in Pharmaceutical Markets : Antiulcer Drugs
Berndt, Ernst R. - 2000
We examine the role of consumption externalities in the demand for pharmaceuticals at both the brand level and over a … equations describing the dynamic adjustment process. We find that consumption externalities influence both valuations and rates …
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Tax Externalities of Equity Mutual Funds
Shoven, John B. - 2000
capital gain position of the fund. This paper's simulations show that these externalities are important determinants of the …
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Preference Externalities : An Empirical Study of Who Benefits Whom in Differentiated Product Markets
Waldfogel, Joel - 1999
externalities', an increase in the size of the market brings forth additional products valued by others with similar tastes. But who … benefits whom? We examine the patterns of and mechanisms for preference externalities between black and white and between … preference externalities are large and positive within groups, they are small and possibly negative across groups. For example …
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The Environmental Regime in Developing Countries
Jha, Raghbendra - 1999
This paper discusses the environmental externalities that are commonly found in the developing world (the environmental …
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Vertical Externalities in Tax Setting : Evidence from Gasoline and Cigarettes
Besley, Timothy J. - 1999
A common feature of federal systems is that tax bases are joint property. Consequently, state and federal tax setting decisions are interdependent. Our aim here is to put forward a rudimentary theoretical analysis of this phenomenon, and to use the theory as a framework for econometrically...
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