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Should Public Capital Be Subsidized or Provided?

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Xie, Danyang; Zou, Heng-Fu - EconWPA - 2002

In an endogenous-growth model, we consider alternative ways of providing public capital using distortionary taxes. We show that if the government provides the good, the resulting growth rate and welfare may or may not be higher than under laissez-faire. By contrast, if the government subsidizes...

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Nursing home subsidies

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

On 13 July 1998 the Treasurer referred the current and alternative funding methodologies for nursing home subsidy rates …, announced in the August 1996 Budget, included a process of ‘coalescence’, under which the different nursing home subsidy rates … Commission into differential subsidy rates. …

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SUBSIDY AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN A MOBILE CAPITAL MODEL

Bandopadhyay, Titas Kumar - EconWPA - 2005

efficiency- wage relation in the low wage sector. The general equilibrium effects of subsidy policies on urban unemployment and … domestic factor income are examined.The main findings in this paper shows that urban subsidy policy softens the problem of … urban unemployment ,while the rural subsidy policy aggravates this, if informal sector is linked to the international market …

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International pharmaceutical price differences

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

The study compares manufacturer prices in Australia and seven other countries for 150 pharmaceuticals listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), as at 30 June 2000. The comprehensive study found that prices in the USA are between 80 to 160 per cent higher than in Australia, and prices...

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Bank loans, start-up subsidies and the survival of the new firms: an econometric analysis at the entrepreneur level

Bruno, CREPON; Emmanuel, DUGUET - EconWPA - 2004

We evaluate the impact of bank loans and start-up subsidies on the survival of the new firms. This work relies on the SINE94 survey that provides rich information on the entrepreneurs and their start-up projects. We use the propensity score matching methodology, in the case of multiple...

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INEQUALITY AND OIL SUBSIDY IN INDONESIA

Situngkir, Hokky - EconWPA - 2004

oil subsidy domestically. The problem that faced by the government is that the compensation fund will hardly enjoyed by …

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