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Showing 1 to 20 of 358 for “"externalities"”.
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Income Inequality, Externalities, and Housing Segregation
… households disproportionately generate positive externalities that increase housing prices. A review of existing literature is provided. A series of models are also developed to capture and examine theory. The primary finding in the model is that, if higher income households do disproportionately …
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Informational Externalities of Going Public Decisions
In this dissertation I examine the informational externalities of going public decisions for industrial and banking sector. The results show that industrial rivals have positive valuation effects only in response to venture backed IPOs and no significant reaction in response to non-venture backed …
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Advertising in Markets with Consumption Externalities
… advertising in markets with consumption externalities using a stochastic success function. Optimal advertising and pricing strategies are analysed when an incumbent firm faces a challenger with a product of equal quality. I show that strategic entry deterrence using advertising is …
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International Externalities in Pandemic Influenza Mitigation
… additional treatment in the other country. These externalities and complementarities may mean that self-interested rich countries should optimally pay for some AV treatment in poor countries. This dissertation demonstrates the presence of antiviral treatment externalities in simple epidemiological …
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Studies in trade and transboundary externalities
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1993.
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Investment and human capital externalities: knowledge spillovers
… with the assumption that there are human capital externalities and that these effects is positive. 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 …
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Modeling Production Externalities in the Maquila Industry
… Furthermore, given the negative production externalities that characterized the first two phases of the industry, the environmental repercussions of this expanding industry should be studied. Using dynamic modeling as the underlying methodology, this thesis provides a framework for …
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Weaponized disclosure : the feedback effect of disclosure externalities
Information about one firm has the potential to affect the stock price of another firm. I investigate whether managers recognize this potential and strategically alter their disclosure decisions when doing so is beneficial. Using data on media coverage and merger negotiations, I find that bidders …
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Mitigating negative transport externalities in industrialized and industrializing countries
… is likely to increase transport-related negative externalities e.g., congestion, air pollution, climate change etc. The situation is severe in rapidly expanding cities where the demand for motorized transport is increasing. This has increased the pressure on the policy makers to devise policies to …
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Internalizing externalities: Roles of networks, clubs and policy commitments
Externalities arising from actions of one player in the economy and directly affecting the well-being of another are ubiquitous. In these situations, market equilibria often fail to be efficient. This dissertation explores the roles of networks, clubs and policy commitments in the internalization …
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Immigrant Communities, Human Capital Externalities And Labor Market Outcomes
… ethnic communities. These ethnic human capital externalities may play an important role in the economic assimilation of low human capital immigrants by potentially offsetting some of the economic costs associated with low education and limited English skills. The second and third essays use …
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Optimal Taxation and Innovation in the Presence of Externalities
… Taxation and Innovation in the Presence of Externalities.” It explores the effects of externalities on optimal income taxation and innovation. On the one hand, governments’ income redistribution policies among households affect pollution since households are different in terms of how much …
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Three essays on environmental economics: externalities and policy implications
… theoretical models and empirical approaches. Externalities, especially issues that are unanticipated or have been largely overlooked, are the primary focuses throughout the whole thesis. The first chapter, based on joint work with Daniel Karney, investigates the general equilibrium welfare …
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An essay on externalities, property values and urban zoning.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1972. Ph.D.
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Economic growth in cities : the role of localization externalities
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1995.
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INEQUALITY, GROWTH AND CONGESTED EXTERNALITIES: A THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
… expansionary fiscal policy in the harnessing of externalities emanating from productive government capital which is subject to relative congestion. The results from this assessment indicate that congestion accelerates the time-path to steady-state convergence while moderating the distributional …
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The cost of power : externalities in South Africa's energy sector
… context, this thesis investigates environmental externalities arising in South Africa's energy sector. Two questions are posed: first and foremost, which environmental problems give rise to the most significant social costs? Secondarily, how helpful is an environmental economic analysis in this …
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Why so little trade : externalities asymmetry of information, and welfare
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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Training Externalities and Institutional Determinants: Assessing Rentention in Ohio Apprenticeship Programs
While apprenticeships are an important part of the workforce training system, their numbers have continued to decline in the United States. Apprentice dropout (attrition) is identified as the primary concern that discourages employers from investing in this training (Lerman, Eyster, & Chambers, …
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The Behavior of Technology Suppliers in the Presence of Network Externalities
… technology suppliers in the presence of network externalities with a focus on economies of compatibility setting and promotional pricing. Positive network externalities arise when a good is more valuable to a user because more users adopt the same good or compatible ones. There are two issues …
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