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We consider an environment in which there is substantial uncertainty about the potential negative external effects of …
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externalities for HCV-negative patients during this period …
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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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Standard approaches to environmental and natural resource use externalities generally focus on single-sector resources … sectors. Cross-sectoral externalities are generated and impede attainment of conservation objectives. The multiplicity of … institutional analysis following Oliver Williamson's four-levels of institutions (social embeddedness, institutional environment …
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I consider the effect of empathy towards others on the internalization of interpersonal externalities and on private …
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The paper develops a general methodology for analyzing policies with path-dependency (hysteresis) in stochastic models with forward looking optimizing agents. Our main application is a macro-climate model with a path-dependent climate externality. We derive in closed form the dynamics of the...
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We examine the desirability of granting "safe harbor" provisions to creditors of financial intermediaries in sale-and-repurchase (repo) contracts. Exemption from an automatic stay in bankruptcy enables financial intermediaries to raise greater liquidity and induces entry of intermediaries with...
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production, congestion, and amenities externalities. We study the optimal policy toward foreign residents in a model with key … involves implementing transfers to internalize agglomeration, congestion, and other potential externalities. Importantly, we …
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commit to contracts, virus externalities are local, and competitive equilibria are efficient. The Second Welfare Theorem also … their infection status. If society cannot control virus exposure, then virus externalities are global and competitive … externalities and result in inefficiently high economic activity. If agents cannot commit, competitive equilibria are inefficient …
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The extent of voluntary cooperation in the presence of externalities is shown as an equilibrium outcome in the supply … character of the costs resulting from externalities. The paper discusses applications including forest management, volume …
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