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benefits and tax credits among 'comparable' households. We implement this approach by estimating a discrete choice model of … direct cost of 0:3% of GDP might raise total fertility by about 0:3 point. …
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respond to labour tax rates and government supplied non-employment benefits. We compare aggregate and individual outcomes in … terms of how macroeconomic aggregates respond to some types of government supplied non-employment benefits, but remarkably …
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We consider one polluting industry in an open economy. The national government implements a policy of industrial pollution control by inducing appropriate technological innovations to reduce toxic emissions. The emission-reducing innovations are developed through firm-specific costly...
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, and progressive taxation, as well as investment and output subsidies to the entrepreneurial sector. …
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This paper examines optimal policy towards a home exporting firm which competes on price with a foreign firm. Two policy instruments are compared: an output subsidy and a price subsidy. The paper also considers two games: the conventional ex ante game, in which the government sets the value of...
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for internal tariffs in a customs union is shown to be inapplicable to most of the EC's existing, cost-increasing barriers … Compensatory Amounts on agricultural trade. National production subsidies are examined in the context of the free intra-EC mobility … of capital and skilled labor. Subsidies are doubly harmful to a small open economy in the presence of factor mobility …
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High levels of protection and domestic support for farmers in developed countries significantly affect many least developed countries (LDCs), both directly and through the price-depressing effect of agricultural support policies. High tariffs and domestic support may also lower the world price...
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subsidies on firms’ export performance. It documents robust evidence that production subsidies stimulate export activity …, although this effect is conditional on firm characteristics. In particular, the beneficial impact of subsidies is found to be …
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cost of capital negative for East German industry. The negative cost of capital implies that this factor in fact mutates …
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for the support of output through subsidies, another for similar support through credit. The first argument relates to the …
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