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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Private cost"”.
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Value of information for targeting agro-pollution control: a case study of the lower Susquehanna watershed
Targeting farms with low costs of reducing agro-pollution has been suggested as a means to reduce control costs. The potential to use better information to reduce costs of achieving a regulatory performance standard was evaluated. Using the Lower Susquehanna watershed as a case study, three …
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Essays on political institutions and macroeconomics
… A numerical exercise suggests that the welfare cost of political economy distortions is high if the government chooses suboptimal politically sustainable policies which do not respond persistently to shocks. This is because the government over-saves and resources are wasted on rents. Chapter 2 …
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Essays on the economics of law, crime and discrimination
… rules must balance the tradeoffs between costs to defendants and costs to society. This chapter develops a model of optimal bail that incorporates the cost of jailing the defendant, the private cost to the defendant from being incarcerated, the cost of crime, and the costs that arise when …
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A decision model to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of alternative Virginia oyster grounds management strategies
Public and private concern over the decline of Virginia's oyster industry prompted the General Assembly (GA) in 1977 and 1983 to commission its Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to examine the State's oyster grounds management policies. In response to JLARC's findings the GA …
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Two Essays on Tax Evasion
… commodity and income taxes can be evaded at a private cost and under the uncertainty of audit lotteries. We derive and provide an intuitive interpretation of a generalized: (i) 'Ramsey equation' for optimal commodity taxes, (ii) formula for the optimal income tax rate, (iii) the tradeoff …
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Essays in organizational economics
… organizational responses to influence activities-costly activities aimed at persuading a decision maker. Rigid organizational practices that might otherwise seem inefficient can optimally arise. If more complex decisions are more susceptible to influence activities, optimal selection may partially …
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Essays on asymmetric information in government contracting
… with respect to the marginal production cost of the item. Prior to full-scale production, the firm performs start-up work, during which it may make a costly investment which lowers the marginal cost of production. This cost-reducing effort is not observable by the government. At the end …
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Measuring the social costs of coal-based electricity generation in South Africa
… as a case study. A COAL-based Power and Social Cost Assessment (COALPSCA) Model was developed for: (i) understanding coal-based power generation and its interactions with resource inputs, private costs, externalities, externality costs and hence its consequent socio-economic, and environmental …
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Three Essays on the Supply of Long-Term Care Services to the Elderly in the U.S.
… United States. The first two essays investigate private costs of LTC assistance borne by adult children of elderly parents. In contrast, the third essay focuses on the cost of publicly-provided, formal LTC services. </p> <p>The first essay analyzes whether adult children devote less time to …