crisis, the costs and benefits of interest subsidies, and the suitability of an income-based repayment system for student …

correcting R&D market failures, can be useful complements to emissions pricing, but ambitious renewable targets or subsidies seem … highly sensitive to the degree of undervaluation of EE by consumers, which also has implications for policies that tend to …

We study how healthcare subsidies and improved information affect over- and under-use of primary healthcare in a …. Using nine weeks of daily data, we show that the barrier to optimal care seeking is cost, not information: subsidies …

child care quality. Sources of market failure comprise taxation of labor and productivity impacts on child care not fully … taken account of by parents. Optimal corrective subsidies are highly correlated with taxed paid by secondary earners. In a …-use subsidies” mitigates such distortions and can also counter excessive levels of subsidies for external child care. …

-contingent renewable subsidies outperforms both unconditional commitment and discretion. The choice between the practically more feasible …

market care subsidies vs. cash for care. Policies are determined by probabilistic voting, where allocative and distributional … likely to receive subsidies. In early stages of development where most households are traditional, implemented policies … favour them, though to a small extent. Net subsidies to traditional households are highest in some intermediate stage, which …

, and later a reduction. Optimal taxes and subsidies are derived both for the first-best case and for the case of a …

their creditworthiness and compare different types of subsidies with indirect subsidization through public banks. We find … that, in a large parameter range, the politician prefers public banks to direct subsidies because they avoid windfall gains … subsidies. One important prerequisite for this result is that public banks must not be allowed to fully compete with private …