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The Problem Of Internalization Of Social Costs. The Ideas Of Ronald Coase And The Discovery Of Another Very Important Intuition Of The English Author, Enrico Baffi Jan 2012

The Problem Of Internalization Of Social Costs. The Ideas Of Ronald Coase And The Discovery Of Another Very Important Intuition Of The English Author, Enrico Baffi

enrico baffi

In this paper Coase makes four criticisms to Pigou tradition. Probably the most important one is the criticism that states that it is impossible to have a tax for each externality. this is the less fascinating argument but it is also very convincing. However, in Coase paper, there is an intuition that partially destroys the conclusions that scholars have reached about tort law. Coase teaches us that decoupling in not sufficient to have an efficient result. I f you want that a party bears all the social costs than that party if she moves near a factory she should pay …


Contracting I The -Modern Woerld, Enrico Baffi Jan 2012

Contracting I The -Modern Woerld, Enrico Baffi

enrico baffi

In this paper I want to show that the change that we observe in the way of contracting do not depend by the market powers that firms would have obtained, but it is a phenomenon due to the change in relative costs of activities. There are activities that are labor intensive that must be abandoned in favor of activities that capital intensive, and there are activities that are time consuming that the people do not want to bea, as reading all the contract clauses of a standard form contract, that determine the necessity, probably, if there is not a state …


Coase V. Pigou: A Still Difficult Debate After Fifty Years, Enrico Baffi Jan 2012

Coase V. Pigou: A Still Difficult Debate After Fifty Years, Enrico Baffi

enrico baffi

This paper examine the positions of Coase and Pigou about the problem of the externalities. From the reading of their most two important works it appears that Coase has a more relevant preference for a evaluation of efficiency at the total, while Pigou, with some exception, is convinced that is possible to reach marginal efficiency through taxes. It’s interesting that Coase, who has elaborated the famous theorem, is convinced that is not i to reach the efficiency at the margin every time and that sometimes is necessary a valuation at the total, that tells us which solution is more welfare …