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This paper explores the feasibility and desirability of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). We identify CSR with creation of public goods or curtailment of public bads. Using a model with pro…tmaximizing …rms, the paper shows that there is a direct parallel between CSR and traditional models of private provision of public goods. Indeed, …rms that use CSR will produce public goods at exactly ...

So far the literature on DSGE models with energy price shocks uses energy on the production side only. In these models, energy shocks are responsible for only a negligible share of output fluctuations. We study the robustness of this finding. The aim of our paper is to model the response of household behavior to energy shocks in more detail as in the existing literature. Specifically, in additi...

Many observers have argued that ethnic divisions make public goods more difficult to provide. This paper examines the provision of public goods in an economy with ethnic divisions. Households feel altruistically toward other households in their ethnic group. The amount of public goods in private contribution equilibrium is generally in decreasing in the amount of ethnic diversity. Public goods ...

Supermarket private-label products are perceived to be lower quality than their branded counterparts. Excess dietary sodium in foods contributes to high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease. Sodium concentrations in products are an important indicator of quality. We compared the sodium content of 15,680 supermarket private-label and branded products, available in four Australian supermarke...

This paper studies the relation between Bayesian mechanism design and the Ramsey-Boiteux approach to the provision and pricing of excludable public goods. For a large economy with private information about individual preferences, the two approaches are shown to be equivalent if and only if, in addition to incentive compatibility and participation constraints, the …nal allocation of private-good...