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Keyword: externality


Coasian Bargaining & Property Rights (10/5/2017)

Efficient assignment of property rights could achieve efficient adverse impact without negotiation cost and Coasian bargaining.

Keywords: adverse impact, Coase, Coasian bargaining, externality, negotiation cost, pollution, property right

Congestion Pricing (1/10/2007)

Road tolls that vary directly with congestion have reduced peak-hour traffic volume in Singapore and Stockholm by forcing commuters to internalize congestion cost.

Keywords: commons resource, commuting, congestion pricing, external cost, externality, Singapore, Stockholm, toll, traffic

External Benefit and External Cost (11/2/2011)

External cost and external benefit exist because some property rights have not been clearly defined and enforced. Their existence leads to misallocation of resources.

Keywords: Coase Theorem, external benefit, external cost, externality, property rights

External Benefit and External Cost (transcript) (3/27/2007)

The existence of external cost and external benefit leads to misallocation of resources.

Keywords: Coase Theorem, external benefit, external cost, externality, internalization, resource allocation

Games people play (transcript) (3/27/2007)

Narrated lecture on multi-party games involving binary choices.

Keywords: binary choice, congestion, coordination, critical mass, dominant strategy, externality, game theory, gender, invisible hand, nash equilibrium, payoff matrix, prisoner's dilemma, Schelling, stable solution

Property Rights and Externality (7/7/2006)

Transferable and enforceable property rights encourage investment and high-valued uses.

Keywords: barbed wire, cattle ranching, commons, enforcement cost, external benefit, external cost, externality, ownership, Property rights, spillovers, transferability

Sharp Shooters - nudging in action cartoon (10/8/2017)

If you want your toilet floor clean, make urinal use into a target practice. A little nudging can go a long way.

Keywords: cartoon, externality, nudging, spillover effect, target practice, urinal

Spent Guns (3/8/2001)

Recycling used guns could decrease the cost of replacing old guns for police departments, but only at the risk of increasing gun crimes by making used guns cheaper.

Keywords: criminals, externalities, externality, gun-crimes, private costs, recycling, replacement costs, social costs, used police guns

Spillovers Are Not Always Externalities (6/22/2006)

External costs or benefits exist only if property rights have not been clearly defined and/or when the negotiation or enforcement cost exceeds damage.

Keywords: airport, compensation, externality, golf course, internalize, property rights, shopping malls, spillovers

Tragedy of the commons (transcript) (3/27/2007)

Narrated lecture on over-exploitation of commons resources due to unlimited entry.

Keywords: average product, commons, externality, free entry, marginal product, property rights, total product