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Hal R. Varian
Researcher at Google
Publications - 258
Citations - 42185
Hal R. Varian is an academic researcher from Google. The author has contributed to research in topics: The Internet & Public good. The author has an hindex of 74, co-authored 257 publications receiving 40181 citations. Previous affiliations of Hal R. Varian include National Bureau of Economic Research & Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Economic Preferences or Attitude Expressions?: An Analysis of Dollar Responses to Public Issues
TL;DR: For instance, this article found that participants in contingent valuation surveys and jurors setting punitive damages in civil trials provide answers denominated in dollars, rather than as indications of economic preferences, and that these answers are better understood as expressions of attitudes than as indicators of economic preference.
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Pricing congestible network resources
TL;DR: The basic economic theory of pricing a congestible resource, such as an FTP server, a router, a Web site, etc, is described, and the implications of "congestion pricing" are examined as a way to encourage efficient use of network resources.
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Redistributive taxation as social insurance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assume that differences in observed income are due to exogenous differences in luck, and derive the optimal forms for linear and nonlinear taxes, and compute some algebraic and numeric examples.
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Monitoring Agents with Other Agents
TL;DR: The principal-agent literature typically assumes that principals are unable to observe the characteristics or the actions of the agents whom they monitor as mentioned in this paper, and the inability of the principal to observe characteristics or actions leads to complications in the design of incentive schemes.