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Application of Regionally Varying Additionality Degrees in the Practice of EU Cohesion Policy

Nam, Chang Woon; Wamser, Georg - CESifo - 2010

The additionality principle says that the funds of the European Union should not replace, but be an addition to … study examines how such additionality degrees are determined. Our findings indicate that the regional variation of … additionality degrees is largely in line with EU cohesion policy goals. Most notably, higher shares of EU funds are provided to …

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Economic Land Use, Ecosystem Services and Microfounded Species Dynamics

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2004

In an integrated economy-ecosystem model humans choose their land use and leave the residual land as habitat for three species forming a food chain. The size of habitat determines the diversity and abundance of species. That biodiversity generates, in turn, a flow of ecosystem services with...

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Pricing the Ecosystem and Taxing Ecosystem Services: A General Equilibrium Approach

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2007

internalize consumption services externalities. In the case of an open access habitat additional sources of inefficiency are the …

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You Owe Me

Malmendier, Ulrike M.; Schmidt, Klaus - CESifo - 2012

effective in reducing the effect of gifts, consistent with our model. Financial incentives ameliorate the effect of the gift but …

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Public Good Provision with Robust Decision Making

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Economides, George; … - CESifo - 2012

In this paper, we study a two-country dynamic setup with environmental externalities and potential model …

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Emissions Taxes and Abatement Regulation under Uncertainty

Christiansen, Vidar; Smith, Stephen - CESifo - 2013

We consider environmental regulation in a context where firms invest in abatement technology under conditions of uncertainty about subsequent abatement cost, but can subsequently adjust output in the light of true marginal abatement cost. Where an emission tax is the only available instrument,...

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Trade Restrictiveness Indices in Presence of Externalities: An Application to Non-Tariff Measures

Beghin, John; Disdier, Anne-Célia; Marette, Stéphan - CESifo - 2014

demand by reducing negative externalities. We apply the framework to the database of Kee et al. (2009) and derive ad valorem …

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Environmental Tax Reform in a Federation with Rent-Induced Migration

Garon, Jean-Denis; Séguin, Charles - CESifo - 2015

We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...

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Conservation Contracts and Political Regimes

Harstad, Bård; Mideksa, Torben - CESifo - 2015

Motivated by tropical deforestation, we analyze (i) a novel theory of resource extraction, (ii) the optimal conservation contract, (iii) when the donor prefers contracting with central rather than local governments, and (iv) how the donor’s presence may induce institutional change....

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Learning Abatement Costs: On the Dynamics of Optimal Regulation of Experience Goods

Hintermann, Beat; Lange, Andreas - CESifo - 2012

incentives coincide, the optimal tax of the polluting consumption is increasing over time. However, if social and private … learning incentives diverge, we show that it will be optimal to temporarily increase the tax rate beyond net marginal external …

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