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Optimal Energy Taxes and Subsidies under a Cost-Effective Unilateral Climate Policy : Addressing Carbon Leakage
Kruse-Andersen, Peter - 2019
domestic and foreign production of other goods. The optimal tax-subsidy scheme is based on an intuitive principle: Impose a …. Producers of renewables-based electricity should receive a subsidy to internalize their contribution to the reduction of global …
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A Retrospective Study of State Aid Control in the German Broadband Market
Duso, Tomaso; Nardotto, Mattia; Seldeslachts, Jo - 2021
We provide an evaluation of the impact of public subsidy schemes that aimed to support the development of basic …
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The Efficiency of State Aid for the Deployment of High-Speed Broadband : Evidence from the French Markets
Bourreau, Marc; Grzybowski, Lukasz; Munoz-Acevedo, Ángela - 2023
In this paper, we evaluate the efficiency of the French State aid plan for broadband deployment, the Plan France Très Haut Débit. According to State aid rules, public subsidies should not be substitute for private investment and should target areas with market failures. We estimate a...
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Market Concentration in Europe : Evidence from Antitrust Markets
Affeldt, Pauline; Duso, Tomaso; Gugler, Klaus; … - 2021
An increasing body of empirical evidence is documenting trends toward rising concentration, profits, and markups in many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market shares are poorly measured at the national industry level...
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The child adoption marketplace: Parental preferences and adoption outcomes
Skidmore, Mark; Anderson, Gary; Eiswerth, Mark - 2011
In the United States child adoption costs vary considerably, ranging from no out-of-pocket expense to $50,000 or more. What are the underlying causes for the variability in child adoption expenses? While cost variability is widely acknowledged, the sources of the differentials have not been...
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Short-Time Work Subsidies in a Matching Model
Meier, Volker - 2019
We consider positive and normative aspects of subsidizing work arrangements where subsidies are paid in time of low demand and reduced working hours so as to stabilize workers’ income. In a matching framework such an arrangement increases labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work...
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Solar Rebound - The Unintended Consequences of Subsidies
Gautier, Axel - 2019
Many jurisdictions use net metering to record the power exchange between solar photovoltaic panels and the grid, thus valuing home production at the electricity retail rate. However, if over the billing period, production exceeds consumption, the surplus remains freely available for consumption....
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Efficiency in Wholesale Electricity Markets : On the Role of Externalities and Subsidies
Bialek, Sylwia; Unel, Burcin - 2021
-best outcomes. We also show there exists a range of subsidy rates that are welfare-enhancing when greenhouse gas externalities are …
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Motivation Crowding in Peer Effects : The Effect of Solar Subsidies on Green Power Purchases
La Nauze, Andrea - 2021
I test whether economic incentives dampen peer effects in public-good settings. I study how a visible and subsidized contribution to a public good (installing solar panels) affects peer contributions that are neither subsidized nor visible (electing green power). Exploiting spatial variation in...
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How Effective are Hiring Subsidies to Reduce Long-Term Unemployment Among Prime-Aged Jobseekers? Evidence from Belgium
Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2021
abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its … effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a triple difference methodology the hiring subsidy is shown to increase the job … at least a bachelor’s degree. However, the hiring subsidy mainly created temporary short-lived employment: eligible …
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