Social rewards, externalities and stable preferences
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Social rewards , externalities and stable preferences
This paper examines the role of social rewards as a corrective mechanism for activities which generate externalities. The focus of this paper is on the circumstances under which social rewards provide effective and feasible incentive mechanism that may replace laws and regulations. In particular, social mechanism is effective only in a society in which individuals who care about their standing ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Economics
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0047-2727
DOI: 10.1016/s0047-2727(98)00060-7