While there are various definitions of public goods, the property of joint consumability has become the main or sole defining characteristic of such goods. Among the other characteristics the property of non-excludability is the one primarily discussed. While it is common in the literature to...

After having pointed out the diverse uses of the term infrastructure in the literature on the market-economy, the different categories of infrastructure will be described. The argument in this context is that the classification of infrastructure suggested by Jochimsen has proved useful:...

In the double dividend debate following Bovenberg and de Mooij (1994) the definition of 'tax efficiency dividend' is implicitly based on the claim that by its very nature any corrective tax, and therefore any emission tax, imposes an excess burden, a claim that is also shared, e.g., by the...

This paper develops a two-sector non-scale growth model and investigates the relationship between international trade, growth, and industrialization. It is shown that the counterfactual prediction of new growth theories regarding a positive effect of population growth on the growth rate of per...

Given the production technology of a multiproduct firm, economists usually try to represent this technology by functions, namely the cost function, the revenue function and the input and output distance functions. In doing so the analysis directs the attention to the (dual)matching of quantities...

In their seminal paper on production, consumption and externalities (AER, 1969), Ayres and Kneese initiated a research program on comprehensive analysis and management of residuals and pollution based on two pillars: the study of the residuals-generating materials flow subject to the mass...

In dem vorliegenden Beitrag untersuchen wir auf der Grundlage eines statischen allgemeinen Gleichgewichtsmodells die Effizienz verschiedener Gebuehrenkonzepte einer Abfall-Management-Organisation. Diese wird von den Produzenten, die fuer die Verwertung und/oder Entsorgung der Verpackungsabfaelle...

In a dynamic general equilibrium model we explictly consider the relationship between the product attributes 'durability' and 'recyclability'. Both efficiency and sustainability aspects are taken into account. It turns out (a) that durability may be inefficient even in a perfectly competitive...

In der Aussenhandelstheorie wird das Angebot und die Nachfrage mit Hilfe der Dualitaetstheorie abgebildet. Dabei wird auf nationaler Ebene das Problem der Erloesmaximierung untersucht, wobei die nationalen Faktorbestaende und die Produktionstechnologien der einzelnen Unternehmen gegeben sind....