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Mardan, Mohammed - 2020

This paper analyzes the optimal tax system consisting of the tax rate and the capacity of the tax administration. I challenge the conventional wisdom that tax rates and tax administrations' capacity are complements showing that their relationship depends on a country's level of development....

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Emissions taxes and abatement regulation under uncertainty

Christiansen, Vidar; Smith, Stephen - 2013

We consider environmental regulation in a context where firms invest in abatement technology under conditions of uncertainty about subsequent abatement cost, but can subsequently adjust output in the light of true marginal abatement cost. Where an emission tax is the only available instrument,...

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Are Non-Eligible Students Affected by Special Education?

Vaag Iversen, Jon Marius; Bonesrønning, Hans; … - 2013

resources might dampen the negative externalities associated with misbehaving students, and thus work to improve the performance …

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Estimating Equilibrium Effects of Job Search Assistance

Gautier, Pieter A.; Muller, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas; … - 2015

Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...

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Do Markets Erode Social Responsibility?

Bartling, Björn; Weber, Roberto A. - 2013

This paper studies the stability of socially responsible behavior in markets. We develop a laboratory product market in which low-cost production creates a negative externality for third parties, but where alternative production with higher costs entirely mitigates the externality. Our data...

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The Effectiveness of Taxation and Feed-in Tariffs

Antoniou, Fabio; Strausz, Roland - 2014

We study (energy) markets with dirty incumbents and costly entry by clean producers. For intermediate entry costs, the market outcome exhibits inefficient production and inefficient entry. A policy mix of three popular regulatory instruments—taxation on polluters, feed-in tariffs for clean...

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Abatement Innovation in a Cournot Oligopoly: Emission versus Output Tax Incentives

Aoyama, Naoto; Silva, Emilson C.D. - 2016

This study compares energy and emission taxes used to control pollution and provide incentives for the adoption of an advanced abatement technology in a Cournot oligopoly. We examine multistage games where the government may intervene in order to maximize social welfare by setting an...

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Think global, act local! A mechanism for global commons and mobile firms

Ahlvik, Lassi; Liski, Matti - 2019

It is tricky to design local regulations on global externalities, especially so if firms are mobile. We show that when … a looser opt-in scheme, creating a global cap for externalities for a subset of firms. We illustrate the magnitude of …

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Education, unemployment and migration

Eggert, Wolfgang; Krieger, Tim; Meier, Volker - 2007

This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are disproportionally skilled. The brain drain from the poor...

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Subsidizing national champions: an evolutionary perspective

Aubert, Cécile; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2008

externalities appear along the lifecycle. In a simple model, we show that it may be efficient to subsidize innovative firms in their … early stages or to protect mature firms from competition to appropriate these externalities. However, non …-benevolent politicians may not choose efficient policies. Real-world examples indicate that politicians tend to concentrate on externalities …

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