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Agriculture, Pesticides and the Ecosystem

Pethig, Rüdiger - 2001

Economists have a good understanding of intra-economic interdependence and a mature methodology of modeling it. Ecologists focus on the complex and sensitive interactions of species in ecosystems. This paper's objective is to suggest a new micro-foundation of ecosystem analysis based on economic...

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Cultural Goods Consumption and Cultural Capital

Pethig, Rüdiger; Cheng, Sao-Wen - 2000

Cultural capital is assumed to benefit all members of society. It is built up by the aggregate consumption of cultural goods and is diminished through depreciation. In the no-policy market economy, consumers tend to ignore the beneficial external effects of their cultural good consumption on the...

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Aging in a Neoclassical Theory of Labor Demand

Christiaans, Thomas - 2003

This paper introduces aging of workers into the neoclassical theory of labor demand. Among other things, it is shown …

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Profit Tax Competition and Formula Apportionment

Pethig, Rüdiger; Wagener, Andreas - 2003

We analyse tax competition with corporate profit taxes in a common market where tax revenues are allocated according to … an apportionment formula. As a general rule, tax competition is sharper the higher is the tax elasticity of the … fixed, tax competition is sharpest if apportionment is based on property shares, followed by the sales and payroll shares …

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Optimal Monetary Policy in an Optimizing Stochastic Dynamic Model with Sticky Prices

Gail, Michael - 2000

Recently macroeconomic researchers have begun studying models of optimal monetary policy within the Real Business Cycle (RBC) framework. A standard RBC model is augmented by New Keynesian elements like sticky prices and monopolistically competitive firms. The monetary authority acts as a social...

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Product Durability, Solid Waste Management and Market Structure

Runkel, Marco - 1999

an increase in the marginal environmental damage. In a laissez-faire equilibrium under perfect competition, producers … the producer responsibility. In the case of imperfect competition (oligopoly or monopoly) Pigouvian taxation indeed …

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Altruism and Donations

Cheng, Sao-Wen; Wagener, Andreas - 2000

We examine two types of altruism and their implications for voluntary giving. Philanthropists are altruists who wish to enhance the well-being of others, while individuals with merit-good preferences only wish to further the consumption of certain merit goods by others. Philanthropic donors...

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Fundamentals of Production Theory in International Trade. A Modern Approach Based on Theory of Duality

Bobzin, Hagen - 2002

are dual to each other. To be more concrete, we refer to the theory of international trade, where the factor endowment of …

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Massenmedien, Werbung und Märkte. Eine wirtschaftstheoretische Analyse

Pethig, Rüdiger - 2001

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die für die Medienwirtschaft relevanten Märkte mit einfachen Marktmodellen. Im Zentrum stehen die Interdependenzen zwischen Konsumgüter-, Werbe- und Medienmärkten, wobei die wichtige Rolle der Werbemärkte als ökonomischer Motor der Medienwirtschaft besonders...

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Economic Growth, a Golden Rule of Thumb, and Learning by Doing

Christiaans, Thomas - 2001

A simple rule of thumb which has been successfully used in the basic neoclassical growth model as an alternative to the unstable dynamic optimization solution is shown to be more generally applicable in a non-scale growth model with learning by doing. The model is formulated in accordance with...

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