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Showing 1 to 20 of 138 for “"Externality"”.
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Externality in Hegel's Philosophy of Nature
… from norms of culture through a concept of “externality,” according to which the universals or laws of nature stand outside of, apart from, independent from their particulars. He contrasts this with norms of culture, where the universals are internal to the particulars, such that in culture …
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Tradable permit systems for a spatially heterogeneous externality: A microparameter approach
… flows by adjacent groundwater pumping is an externality caused by agricultural producers. Previous studies have analyzed management policies for such externalities, but these have assumed that the ability to monitor stream depletion is perfect and the ability to regulate it is continuous. In …
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The von Neumann Minimax Theorem and its relatives and a study of externality in on-line auctions
… of convex analysis. The second part is about externality in sponsored search auctions. It shows that in these auctions, advertisers have externality effects on each other which influence their bidding behavior. It proposes Hal R.Varian model and shows how adding externality to this model will …
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An investigation of the relationship between playfulness and self-esteem
Playfulness, externality, self-perceptions, IQ, first-grade readiness, and selected demographic variables were studied in a sample of 93 first and second grade children. Playfulness and externality were obtained from teacher ratings on the Child Behaviors Inventory and self-perceptions were …
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Temperament and the disposition to play: sources of shared variance
… were correlated with parental ratings of externality. No correlations were found between parental ratings of playfulness or externality. IQ scores were found to have no significant relationship to parental ratings of playfulness and temperament. Playfulness is a construct distinct from …
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Essays on Public Good Contribution
… methods for either enhancing or mitigating externality-causing activities. Chapter II deals with positive externality in the public good contribution context, and chapter III with negative externality in the pollution abatement context. Chapter IV contains an empirical analysis of charitable …
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Three Essays on Property: The Microeconomic Foundations of Locational Obsolescence; Holdouts and Cartel Formations in the Land Assembly Process; Compensation for Land Use Regulation: The Lucas Case
… can exist if land is misallocated. With an externality, there is no locational obsolescence at the market allocation, while at the optimal allocation only an externality can produce locational obsolescence. Externalities therefore are neither necessary nor sufficient conditions for …
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Targeting Seasonal Marketing Campaigns: Rebalancing Exploration and Exploitation
… policy. This essay identifies an information externality when assigning actions to customers in the same batch: the incremental information contributed by the focal customer depends upon the assignment decisions foe other customers. This essay investigates how to optimally rebalance …
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Essays on location and trade
… to study the impact of both a localization externality and a nation-based externality. The localization externality is related to innovation that occurs because of agglomeration in a locale. The nation-based externality reflects the idea that some nations promote competitive industries more …
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Investment and human capital externalities: knowledge spillovers
… But, few are the authors that measure this externality and do not show how a social planner would act to internalize the distortions caused by the action of the market, while maximizing the welfare of those involved in this economy. The general goal is investigate size and sources of …
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THE VICTORIAN HERITAGE OF VIRGINIA WOOLF: THE EXTERNAL WORLD IN HER NOVELS (TIME, SETTING, COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE, SOCIETY)
… Woolf's novels structurally rebel and return to externality: her experimentation departs from traditional genres; characters are defined through social relations; her novels end with gestures of completion. Language and characters metafictionally expresses her ambivalence towards language; she …
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Essays on institutions for financial stability
… decision generates a positive and a negative externality, and the interaction between the two externalities can give rise to multiple equilibria in participation, i.e. to "liquidity cycles". The second essay studies the complementary problem of the optimal design of incentive systems for …
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The Relationship Between Foreign Direct Investment and a Regional Industrial System: An Analysis of Interregional and Intra-Corporation Linkages of Foreign-Owned Manufacturing Establishments
… control of which lies outside the region. This externality can be of a national or multinational character, the latter being central to this thesis.
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Three Essays on the Economics of Sport
… attendance data to examine the superstar externality effect identified by Berri and Schmidt (2006): star players increase road attendance, and since home teams (at least in the NBA) retain 100% of the gate revenues, this constitutes an externality. Game-level data has several advantages …
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Cost share payment and willingness to participate in Virginia's Pine Bark Beetle Prevention Program
… who might implement it, there may be a market externality in which PCT is underprovided across the landscape. The Pine Bark Beetle Prevention Program (PBBPP) has the potential to correct this externality by reimbursing a portion of the costs of PCT for landowners who qualify. However, cost …
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Three essays on environmental economics: externalities and policy implications
… of an environmental tax to correct a pollution externality given imperfect competition and price discrimination. In a Harberger-style analytical general equilibrium model, oligopolistic firms produce energy for residential consumers as final goods, but that energy can also be sold to the …
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Essays on Economic Growth and Innovation
… inefficiency—a positive market expansion externality that benefits the owners of the components. We demonstrate the importance of this externality in the market for pharmaceutical cancer treatments, where drug combination therapies have proven highly effective. Using data on clinical trial …
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Essays on the spatial dynamic interaction of individual behavior, institutions, and the environment
… assesses whether there is a spatial pumping externality and whether there is any behavioral response to this externality. A large number of theoretical studies have considered strategic behavior by irrigators and recent empirical studies find evidence for strategic overextraction occurring. …
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