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In the context of emission trading it seems to be taken as given that people's preferences can be ignored with respect to the whole process of fixing emission targets and allocating emission permits to polluters. With this paper we want to reopen the debate on how citizens can be involved in...
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imposed on detected payment evaders. For a given price and fine, the consumers purchase, evade payment, or choose the outside …
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In our model, an agent produces an outcome by a costly effort and then distributes it among heterogeneous users. The agents̕ payoff is the weighted sum of the users ̕shares and the coefficient reflecting their heterogeneity. When the agent neglects users ̕heterogeneity the game leads to an...
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This paper assumes that groups of consumers in network markets can coordinate their choices when it is in their best … coexist in equilibrium if consumers have heterogeneous reservation values. A monopolist provider might choose to operate … multiple networks to price differentiate consumers on both sides of the market. Competing network providers might operate …
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media consumers becomes more important the larger the number of competing media products. …
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This paper surveys the literature on the role and effects of central bank communication with the general public, particularly regarding the formation of macroeconomic expectations. It starts by giving a brief overview of the recent "communication revolution" in central bank communication. The...
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Evaluating a new survey dataset of German consumers, we test whether individual consumption plans are formed according … interest rates is most pronounced for consumers who are active on financial markets. Finally, economic news on inflation and …
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