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internalizing these externalities and takes many forms. We distinguish three broad types of intervention strategies, (i) voluntary …
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In this paper, we study regulation of externalities involving many small-scale polluters, where the damages from …
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What is a feasible and efficient policy to regulate air pollution from vehicles? A Pigouvian tax is technologically infeasible. Most countries instead rely on exhaust standards that limit air pollution emissions per mile for new vehicles. We assess the effectiveness and efficiency of these...
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Climate policy needs to set incentives for actors who face imperfect, distorted markets and large uncertainties about the costs and benefits of abatement. Investors price uncertain assets according to their expected return and risk (carbon beta). We study carbon pricing and financial incentives...
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externalities via the interest rate. Conditional on differences in the processes determining household earnings for distinct groups … in the population, these savings externalities may contribute to inequality. Working with an open economy heterogenous … earnings processes of British households with university and non-university educated heads entail savings externalities that …
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To better understand the quantitative implications of human capital externalities at the aggregate level, we estimate a … distributions. Using U.S. quarterly data from 1964-2017, we find significant positive externalities to aggregate human capital. Our …
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The Decentralization Theorem (Oates, 1972) is central to the discussion of fiscal federalism. We revisit the role of consumption spillovers in evaluating the merits of (de)centralization. Unlike the general prediction, a higher degree of spillovers may reduce the difference in utility of...
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if intra-group negative externalities are sufficiently (but not too) strong with respect to positive inter …-group externalities …
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We present a theory linking political and social trust to explain trust erosion in modern societies. Individuals …
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In an environment with asymmetric information the implementation of a first-best efficient Clarke-Groves-Vickrey (D?Aspremont-Gérard-Varet) mechanism may not be feasible if it has to be self-financing. By using intergenerational transfers, the arising budget deficit can generally be covered in...
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