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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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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 …. Moreover, even where rent-snatching subsidies may be profitable for the EC as a whole, subsidy wars could erupt between member …
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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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Economic development in East Germany is not uniform. The building and construction industry is booming but manufacturing industry is stagnating. The paper argues that severe distortions in relative factor prices are the cause of the dichotomous development. These distortions result from...
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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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attempting to minimize subsidies to banks' equityholders. When banks do not diffr with respect to the extent of debt overhang, it … can be fully overcome with the minimal amount of subsidies, providing each bank's equity holders no more than their pre …
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