How learning about harms impacts the optimal rate of artificial intelligence adoption

JS Gans - Economic Policy, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This paper examines recent proposals and research suggesting that artificial intelligence
(AI) adoption should be delayed until its potential harms are fully understood. Conclusions …

Do consumers really care? An economic analysis of consumer attitudes towards food produced using prohibited production methods

K Balcombe, D Bradley, I Fraser - Journal of Agricultural …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Consumer preferences for food produced using currently prohibited production methods
matter, especially in relation to potential trade deals. We conduct four discrete choice …

Looking for a guide to protect the environment: the development of the precautionary principle

G Immordino - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
If the precautionary principle is to become the guide of the international community for
environmental protection policies, an economic interpretation of the principle is in order. The …

Import tariffs and transport prices

D Boddin, F Stähler - Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper discusses how import tariffs interact with transport prices in episodes of trade
liberalization. We develop a model of a transport industry that operates under imperfect …

[HTML][HTML] Corruption, regulation, and investment incentives

A De Chiara, E Manna - European Economic Review, 2022 - Elsevier
We study the optimal design of regulation for innovative activities which can have negative
social repercussions. We compare two alternative regimes which may provide firms with …

Free-riding on rent seeking—an empirical analysis

H Furtom, J Sauer, MS Jensen - Public Choice, 2009 - Springer
Abstract The Common Agricultural Policy is modelled as a club good providing the
European Union (EU) farmer with financial benefits. We build an economic model which …

International price competition among food industries: The role of income, population and biased consumer preference

M Okimoto - Economic Modelling, 2015 - Elsevier
The poor's sensitivity to prices means that a hike in food prices, as a burden on consumers,
hinders the adequate supply of inexpensive food and worsens food safety problems caused …

Pareto optimal trade in an uncertain world: GMOs and the Precautionary Principle

RG Chambers, TA Melkonyan - American Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Optimal trade policy in an uncertain world is examined. Decision‐maker attitudes toward
uncertainty are represented in terms of the Gilboa‐Schmeidler (1989) maximin expected …

Corruption and the Regulation of Innovation

A De Chiara, E Manna - Available at SSRN 3695988, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
We study the optimal design of regulation for innovative activities which can have negative
social repercussions. We compare two alternative regimes which may provide firms with …

Pre-empting NIS introductions: Targeting policy

C Costello, C Lawley, C McAusland - Handbook on Trade and the …, 2008 - elgaronline.com
Invasives are non-indigenous species (NIS) that out-compete native species for resources
and become pests in a host region. Because they are excellent competitors, invasives …