Richard Cornes
Biographic Data
| ID | 989962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Cornes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Cornes |
| SIGNATURE | CORNES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7688-4485 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century
Climate simulations of the industrial era typically start in 1850, using the first fifty years as a baseline for ‘pre-industrial’ climate. However, the period immediately prior to 1850 is of particular interest due to early human influence and heightened volcanic activity, the latter of which led to cooler global temperatures than those observed in the subsequent historical period. In this study, we present a suite of Earth system model simulatio…
An Ensemble Version of the E‐OBS Temperature and Precipitation Data Sets
We describe the construction of a new version of the Europe‐wide E‐OBS temperature (daily minimum, mean, and maximum values) and precipitation data set. This version provides an improved estimation of interpolation uncertainty through the calculation of a 100‐member ensemble of realizations of each daily field. The data set covers the period back to 1950 and provides gridded fields at a spacing of 0.25 ∘ × 0.25 ∘ in regular latitude/longitude coo…
Potentially Harmful International Cooperation on Global Public Good Provision
Experience from climate policy suggests that full cooperation among all countries is not a likely outcome. In this paper we therefore consider the case where only members of a subgroup of countries cooperate by reciprocally matching their public good contributions. In a two‐stage game, matching rates are set at stage 1 then national contributions are chosen at stage 2. In the case of small coalitions, negative matching may result in the subgame‐p…
Private provision of public goods between families
The earliest daily barometric pressure readings in Italy: Pisa AD 1657-1658 and Modena AD 1694, and the weather over Europe
The earliest daily barometric pressure readings were taken during the Maunder Minimum of Solar activity (1645—1715). In Italy, observations were made at Pisa over the years 1657—1658 by V. Viviani and A. Borelli, and at Modena during the year 1694 by B. Ramazzini. These readings have been recovered, corrected and adjusted to modern units. The early instruments used and their problems have been thoroughly discussed. Barometer observations recorded…
Lindahl Equilibrium Versus Voluntary Contribution to a Public Good: The Role of the Income Distribution
Lindahl equilibria are often seen as an ideal outcome of cooperation in a public-goods economy. But it has also been observed that, if no transfer payments are possible, the Lindahl equilibrium may not be Pareto-superior to the Nash outcome of the voluntary-contribution game. We derive conditions under which agents (or countries in the case of an international public good) will prefer the Lindahl over the Nash solution. In particular we show that…
Risk Aversion, Heterogeneity and Contests
The Royal Commission on Reform of the House of Lords: A House for the Future
Local Public Goods, Risk Sharing, and Private Information in Federal Systems
Rotten Kids, Purity, and Perfection
Bergstrom has shown that becker's “Rotten Kid theorem” holds in a world of two commodities if their utilities are transferable. The present paper identifies a further circumstance in which the theorem is valid. We show that it also holds in the absence of transferable utility if the externalities are assumed to take the form of a single pure public good
The Theory of Externalities, Public Goods, and Club Goods
This book presents a theoretical treatment of externalities (i.e. uncompensated interdependencies), public goods, and club goods. The new edition updates and expands the discussion of externalities and their implications, coverage of asymmetric information, underlying game-theoretic formulations, and intuitive and graphical presentations. Aimed at well-prepared undergraduates and graduate students making a serious foray into this branch of econom…
Are Public Goods Myths
This paper makes the case that nonrivalness and nonexcludability properties of public goods are still relevant and crucial considerations. Although these characteristics of publicness may be socially endogenous with institutional choice, these properties are not necessarily determined by this choice. For club goods, a wide range of institutional structures are consistent with the same properties of publicness. Even when these publicness propertie…
The comparative static properties of the impure public good model
Duality and Modern Economics
Dual arguments have become a standard tool for analysis of problems involving optimization by consumers and producers. The principal aim of this book is to provide a fairly systematic yet simple exposition of the basic structure of such arguments. The emphasis is not on providing mathematically general proofs; instead, a geometric approach is used to provide, in an informal way, an intuitive understanding of duality theory. This book introduces t…
The Simple Analytics of Pure Public Good Provision
quantities appear in his utility function. Also, the presence of the externality effectively implies a third commodity, the quantity of which influences his optimal choice and/or the maximum attainable utility in any situation. His utility function, therefore, must have three arguments. While this presents no problem for the rigorous analysis of such problems, it does complicate attempts to provide intuitive and geometric expositions of their ess…
Easy Riders, Joint Production, and Public Goods
Journal Article Easy Riders, Joint Production, and Public Goods Get access Richard Cornes, Richard Cornes Australian National University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Todd Sandler Todd Sandler University of Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 94, Issue 375, 1 September 1984, Pages 580–598, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232704 Published:…
Comparative Effects of Devaluation and Import Controls on Domestic Prices
based on any proper theoretical model. The consequent, often bitter, controversies are exemplified in the various discussions of the New Cambridge macroeconomics in Brunner and Meltzer (1978). The reason is also familiar: the difficulty lies in formulating a tractable model that can address the issues at stake. It is the aim of this paper to construct such a model, and to put it through its paces by performing the desired comparisons in some simp…
Easy Riders, Joint Production, and Public Goods
Journal Article Easy Riders, Joint Production, and Public Goods Get access Richard Cornes, Richard Cornes Australian National University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Todd Sandler Todd Sandler University of Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 94, Issue 375, 1 September 1984, Pages 580–598, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232704 Published:…
The comparative static properties of the impure public good model
Risk Aversion, Heterogeneity and Contests
Rotten Kids, Purity, and Perfection
Bergstrom has shown that becker's “Rotten Kid theorem” holds in a world of two commodities if their utilities are transferable. The present paper identifies a further circumstance in which the theorem is valid. We show that it also holds in the absence of transferable utility if the externalities are assumed to take the form of a single pure public good
Are Public Goods Myths
This paper makes the case that nonrivalness and nonexcludability properties of public goods are still relevant and crucial considerations. Although these characteristics of publicness may be socially endogenous with institutional choice, these properties are not necessarily determined by this choice. For club goods, a wide range of institutional structures are consistent with the same properties of publicness. Even when these publicness propertie…
The Simple Analytics of Pure Public Good Provision
quantities appear in his utility function. Also, the presence of the externality effectively implies a third commodity, the quantity of which influences his optimal choice and/or the maximum attainable utility in any situation. His utility function, therefore, must have three arguments. While this presents no problem for the rigorous analysis of such problems, it does complicate attempts to provide intuitive and geometric expositions of their ess…
Potentially Harmful International Cooperation on Global Public Good Provision
Experience from climate policy suggests that full cooperation among all countries is not a likely outcome. In this paper we therefore consider the case where only members of a subgroup of countries cooperate by reciprocally matching their public good contributions. In a two‐stage game, matching rates are set at stage 1 then national contributions are chosen at stage 2. In the case of small coalitions, negative matching may result in the subgame‐p…
Private provision of public goods between families
The earliest daily barometric pressure readings in Italy: Pisa AD 1657-1658 and Modena AD 1694, and the weather over Europe
The earliest daily barometric pressure readings were taken during the Maunder Minimum of Solar activity (1645—1715). In Italy, observations were made at Pisa over the years 1657—1658 by V. Viviani and A. Borelli, and at Modena during the year 1694 by B. Ramazzini. These readings have been recovered, corrected and adjusted to modern units. The early instruments used and their problems have been thoroughly discussed. Barometer observations recorded…
The Royal Commission on Reform of the House of Lords: A House for the Future
Comparative Effects of Devaluation and Import Controls on Domestic Prices
based on any proper theoretical model. The consequent, often bitter, controversies are exemplified in the various discussions of the New Cambridge macroeconomics in Brunner and Meltzer (1978). The reason is also familiar: the difficulty lies in formulating a tractable model that can address the issues at stake. It is the aim of this paper to construct such a model, and to put it through its paces by performing the desired comparisons in some simp…
Easy Riders, Joint Production, and Public Goods
Journal Article Easy Riders, Joint Production, and Public Goods Get access Richard Cornes, Richard Cornes Australian National University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Todd Sandler Todd Sandler University of Wyoming Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 94, Issue 375, 1 September 1984, Pages 580–598, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232704 Published:…
The Simple Analytics of Pure Public Good Provision
quantities appear in his utility function. Also, the presence of the externality effectively implies a third commodity, the quantity of which influences his optimal choice and/or the maximum attainable utility in any situation. His utility function, therefore, must have three arguments. While this presents no problem for the rigorous analysis of such problems, it does complicate attempts to provide intuitive and geometric expositions of their ess…
Duality and Modern Economics
Dual arguments have become a standard tool for analysis of problems involving optimization by consumers and producers. The principal aim of this book is to provide a fairly systematic yet simple exposition of the basic structure of such arguments. The emphasis is not on providing mathematically general proofs; instead, a geometric approach is used to provide, in an informal way, an intuitive understanding of duality theory. This book introduces t…
Are Public Goods Myths
This paper makes the case that nonrivalness and nonexcludability properties of public goods are still relevant and crucial considerations. Although these characteristics of publicness may be socially endogenous with institutional choice, these properties are not necessarily determined by this choice. For club goods, a wide range of institutional structures are consistent with the same properties of publicness. Even when these publicness propertie…
The comparative static properties of the impure public good model
The Theory of Externalities, Public Goods, and Club Goods
This book presents a theoretical treatment of externalities (i.e. uncompensated interdependencies), public goods, and club goods. The new edition updates and expands the discussion of externalities and their implications, coverage of asymmetric information, underlying game-theoretic formulations, and intuitive and graphical presentations. Aimed at well-prepared undergraduates and graduate students making a serious foray into this branch of econom…
Rotten Kids, Purity, and Perfection
Bergstrom has shown that becker's “Rotten Kid theorem” holds in a world of two commodities if their utilities are transferable. The present paper identifies a further circumstance in which the theorem is valid. We show that it also holds in the absence of transferable utility if the externalities are assumed to take the form of a single pure public good
Local Public Goods, Risk Sharing, and Private Information in Federal Systems
The Royal Commission on Reform of the House of Lords: A House for the Future
Risk Aversion, Heterogeneity and Contests
Lindahl Equilibrium Versus Voluntary Contribution to a Public Good: The Role of the Income Distribution
Lindahl equilibria are often seen as an ideal outcome of cooperation in a public-goods economy. But it has also been observed that, if no transfer payments are possible, the Lindahl equilibrium may not be Pareto-superior to the Nash outcome of the voluntary-contribution game. We derive conditions under which agents (or countries in the case of an international public good) will prefer the Lindahl over the Nash solution. In particular we show that…
The earliest daily barometric pressure readings in Italy: Pisa AD 1657-1658 and Modena AD 1694, and the weather over Europe
The earliest daily barometric pressure readings were taken during the Maunder Minimum of Solar activity (1645—1715). In Italy, observations were made at Pisa over the years 1657—1658 by V. Viviani and A. Borelli, and at Modena during the year 1694 by B. Ramazzini. These readings have been recovered, corrected and adjusted to modern units. The early instruments used and their problems have been thoroughly discussed. Barometer observations recorded…
Private provision of public goods between families
Potentially Harmful International Cooperation on Global Public Good Provision
Experience from climate policy suggests that full cooperation among all countries is not a likely outcome. In this paper we therefore consider the case where only members of a subgroup of countries cooperate by reciprocally matching their public good contributions. In a two‐stage game, matching rates are set at stage 1 then national contributions are chosen at stage 2. In the case of small coalitions, negative matching may result in the subgame‐p…
An Ensemble Version of the E‐OBS Temperature and Precipitation Data Sets
We describe the construction of a new version of the Europe‐wide E‐OBS temperature (daily minimum, mean, and maximum values) and precipitation data set. This version provides an improved estimation of interpolation uncertainty through the calculation of a 100‐member ensemble of realizations of each daily field. The data set covers the period back to 1950 and provides gridded fields at a spacing of 0.25 ∘ × 0.25 ∘ in regular latitude/longitude coo…
Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century
Climate simulations of the industrial era typically start in 1850, using the first fifty years as a baseline for ‘pre-industrial’ climate. However, the period immediately prior to 1850 is of particular interest due to early human influence and heightened volcanic activity, the latter of which led to cooler global temperatures than those observed in the subsequent historical period. In this study, we present a suite of Earth system model simulatio…
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