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Long Run Trends in Energy-Related External Costs
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-01-12)
This paper considers how energy-related external costs change through time. It focuses on one of the key periods in the history of energy. After a period of declining coal prices and soaring consumption which fuelled the ...
International Climate Finance and its Influence on Fairness and Policy
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-07-07)
Besides costs and benefits, fairness aspects tend to influence negotiating parties’ willingness to join an international agreement on climate change mitigation. Fairness is largely considered to improve the prospects ...
Endogenous Timing in Pollution Control: Stackelberg versus Cournot-Nash Equilibria
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-03-03)
In the framework of international cooperation on climate change to control greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), this paper aims to shed new light on the eventuality of the emergence of a country (or a group of countries) behaving ...
Demand for Cultural Heritage
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2011-11)
The concept of cultural heritage has experienced a process of extension during the past few decades. Because it is a cultural construction, it is subject to differences in appreciation based on
contextual and institutional ...
The SD-prenucleolus for TU games
(2011-12)
We introduce and characterize a new solution concept for TU games. The new soluction is called SD-prenucleolus and is a lexicographic value although is not a weighted prenucleolus. The SD-prenucleolus satisfies several ...
Multimarket Competition and Welfare Effects of Price discrimination
(2011-11)
The paper investigates the effects on welfare of price discrimination when a multimarket seller faces competition in one of its two markets. With respect to uniform pricing, price discrimination changes competition in such ...
Welfare Effects of Third-Degree Price Discrimination: Ippolito Meets Schmalensee and Varian
(2011-10)
Based on a pioneering work by Ippolito (1980) we construct a simple model wich allows the welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination to be well understood and explained. The decomposition of the change in welfare ...
Social Interactions and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Latin America
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2011-11)
In this paper, we seek to examine the effect of comparisons and social capital on subjective well-being. Furthermore, we test if, through social influence and exposure, social capital is either an enhancer or appeaser of ...
Pulse vs. Optimal Stationary Fishing: The Northern Stock of Hake
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2011-11)
Pulse fishing may be a global optimal strategy in multicohort fisheries. In this article we compare the pulse fishing solutions obtained by using global numerical methods with the analytical stationary optimal solution. ...
Endogenous Timing in a Mixed Duopoly: Wighted Welfare and Price Competition
(2011)
In this paper we analyse the endogenous order of moves in a mixed duopoly for differentiated goods. Firms choose whether to set prices sequentially or simultaneously. The private firm maximises profits while the public ...