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Amidst the perils of industrialization in the forms of environmental impacts of mining and use of energy and destruction of urban biodiversity, it became imperative for the Latin American countries to design environmental policies in accordance with the respective historicity, demography, and...
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Many products are made by technological processes that cause environmental damage. Current environmental concerns are affecting firms' technological processes as a result of government intervention in markets but also due to environmental awareness on the part of consumers. This paper assumes a...
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endogeneity of input subsidy and improved maize adoption. We found that modern maize variety adoption is positively correlated …
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. Results from our lab experiment suggest that (a) implementing a fat tax and a subsidy simultaneously can nudge parents to …
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declining pattern of hours worked in Japan. Second, consumption tax and subsidy have a limited role in explaining the labor …
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Competition between insurance companies for employees of a firm often increases the prices and reduces the availability of high-quality health plans offered to employees. An insurance company can reduce competition by signing an exclusive contract, which guarantees that the company is the only...
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We evaluate the impact of the Spanish car scrappage program introduced in May 2009 on short-run car purchases. The scrappage program was simultaneously discussed and implemented, and was therefore exogenous to the consumers. We analyse the effect of this program on household new car purchase...
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This paper makes an attempt to link collaborative research in industry with Government initiative and market rate of interests. Two firms involved in Cournot competition in the market are deciding whether to conduct research to device a technique for cost reduction. Amount of cost reduction...
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We investigate government subsidy policies in which a home firm and a foreign firm choose to strategically set prices … governments under subsidy regime, Cournot competition is more efficient than Bertrand competition when the goods are substitutes … Pareto superior (inferior) with government's intervention of subsidy policy when the goods are substitutes (complements …
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This paper investigates whether patent subsidy programs aimed at promoting regional innovations have aroused a large … or low value. However, the patent subsidy programs does not affect the trend of granted patents, particularly for those …
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