Data Externality

A Differential Oligopoly Game with Sticky Prices and Environmental Externality

Network externality and future usage of Internet services

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate different effects of three network externality factors, i.e. local network size, network strength, and total network size, on online messenger, online community, chat room and e-mail services. Design/methodology/approach – In the paper hypotheses are tested with a regression model using a survey data collected from 107 MBA students at a busi...

When Do We Feel Sorry for Others? : An Externality of Lake Use as an Example

The purpose of the study was to verify, through the use of an experimental method, the assumption that the ‘economic human’ pays more attention to the externality he/she causes as the strength of externality increases. We used a social-experiment design within an undergraduate classroom to test assumptions, using statistical method. A lakeside plant was used as an example. Our results confirmed...

Externality in the Theory of International Trade: Some Basic Concepts

This paper introduces some basic features of externality. Emphasis is given to the analysis of externality in the theory of international. It also discusses about the right government policies to correct externality. This paper and three accompanying papers are prepared for a monograph to be published by Tamkang University, Taiwan.

Health insurance and the obesity externality.

If rational individuals pay the full costs of their decisions about food intake and exercise, economists, policy makers, and public health officials should treat the obesity epidemic as a matter of indifference. In this paper, we show that, as long as insurance premiums are not risk rated for obesity, health insurance coverage systematically shields those covered from the full costs of physical...