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interests and complex government subsidy and credit policies. Reform in the telecommunications sector greatly affects the …. The first section considers the role of government subsidies in the effort to promote private farms. The second considers … the impact of state procurement and state procurement subsidies on the development of marketing and distribution channels …
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of R&D subsidies. We find that larger firms have higher marginal profitability of R&D. Rates of return on R&D are high … linear in R&D. The median increase from subsidies in the agency’s utility not appropriated by the applicant is 16 000 …
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This paper discusses different mechanisms of subsidy allocation invoked by operation of law. We compare the allocation … of subsidies via committees to the allocation of subsidies through the reference principle, which binds public support to … economic non-viability of the industry constantly recurs in the public debate as an argument for subsidies. …
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, subsidies and efficiency the of animal farming. To this end we first have to identify the production frontier and relative … efficiency of the farms including direct subsidies, are compared with the counterfactual exercise in the case where direct … subsidies are not considered. Finally, we look for relations between subsidies and factors such as farm size, efficiency and …
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This study examines the effect of research and development subsidies on the private funding of R&D in France. We … address this issue from the annual R&D survey over 1985-1997, which provides information about the R&D subsidies given by all … supported firms would have invested the same amount of private R&D without the subsidies, we use matching methods. We show that …
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This paper surveys a selection of the literature on the private provision of public goods using the Kolm triangle. (The Kolm triangle is the analogue of an Edgeworth box in an economy with a public good.) We provide simple geometrical proofs of various established results using this graphical...
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Following a critical review of the existing quantitative literature on cotton subsidies, a vector autoregression (VAR …) is used to model the effects of US subsidies on the world cotton market from 1965 to 2001. Surprisingly, subsidies are … between quantities, prices, stocks and subsidies are found to be considerably more complex than those suggested by basic …
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, including its inquiry into Nursing Home Subsidies and a major conference on Policy Implications of the Ageing of Australia …
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In this paper, I examine the impact of employer-provided health benefits on job turnover. Because many employer-provided plans extend coverage to a worker's entire family, the value of an employer's employment offer to a worker depends on whether the worker's spouse provides the family with...
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The economic cost of the U.S. health care system goes beyond the cost of prescription drugs, doctor office visits and surgical procedures/ medical image tests. The implicit part of the cost includes the global competitiveness that the U.S. loses being an industrialized economy. The high health...
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