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attempting to minimize subsidies to banks' equityholders. When banks do not diffr with respect to the extent of debt overhang, it … can be fully overcome with the minimal amount of subsidies, providing each bank's equity holders no more than their pre …
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The tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses are analysed and insights from the theory of industrial organisation are given. Governments intervene in the market for books through laws concerning prices of books, grants...
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model to analyse the impact of R&D subsidies. There are some clear global policy implications which emerge from our analysis …. First, because subsidies to Southern innovation benefit the North as well, it is beneficial to the North to pay for some of … these subsidies. Second, because the ability of the South to assimilate Northern knowledge and innovate depends on Southern …
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government's budget, especially the roles played by taxes and subsidies. This paper reviews the Hungarian fiscal situation in … taxation and the various forms of subsidy and social welfare provision. Despite the removal of many former subsidies, the paper … finds that many implicit and unjustified subsidies remain, and they continue to distort resource allocation in undesirable …
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This Paper studies the criteria with which the presence or absence of ‘subsidy’ in sales contingent Launch Aid R&D support may be determined when payoff-relevant market incompleteness limits the precision of market-based pricing to non-trivial intervals. The criteria currently employed in...
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We study the effects of German unification on macroeconomic variables in a model with capital accumulation, skill differences and a welfare state. The integration of two economies differing in capital holdings and skill distribution is similar to a mass migration of low-skilled agents holding no...
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each government may grant R&D subsidies to the domestic firm. We show that it is optimal for a government to provide higher … R&D subsidies the lower the level of trade costs, even if the firms are independent monopolies. If firms produce … necessarily welfare-maximizing. The optimal coordinated policies may imply an asymmetric outcome with R&D subsidies to only one of …
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This paper provides factual evidence on the extent of public intervention in the Italian economy. It further illustrates the internal contradictions and weaknesses of public action in Italy. New policy proposals to solve old structural problems of the Bel Paese are then discussed. Among them, a...
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We develop a general equilibrium model that jointly considers the influence of capital accumulation constraints and of labour market frictions on the process of transition. We endogenize the economic and budgetary costs of different government policies and show that, early in transition,...
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This paper analyses the distribution and allocation of budgetary subsidies and tax arrears in Central and Eastern … Europe. Budgetary subsidies are relatively small in aggregate, highly sector specific, and the manufacturing sector receives …
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