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Quantifying factors giving rise to temporal variation in forest fires is important for advancing scientific understanding and improving fire prevention. We demonstrate that eighty percent of the large year-to-year variation in forest area burned in California can be accounted for by variation in...
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score matching, and inverse probability weighting estimation techniques, we find that 1 dollar of federal spending increases …
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recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm training to the overall stock of worker human capital. We engage with …
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Private independent limited partnership venture capital funds receive capital from institutional investors, without tax … Labour Sponsored Venture Capital Corporations (LSVCCs) receive capital only from individual investors who receive tax breaks … governance and tax incentives: (1) on the distribution of venture capital funding between private and LSVCC funds; (2) on the …
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Natural hazard insurance is almost always provided through public-private partnerships. Given the dominant role of the public sector, it is surprising that equity issues have not faced more scrutiny with respect to the design of hazard insurance. We provide a detailed quantification of the...
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improperly, the application of a feed-in tariff or border tax adjustment can provide an indirect policy instrument. But the … imposition of such a tariff or tax creates an incentive for the producing country to deploy some sort of pollution controlling …
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-best level, or for a tax delivering the first-best environmental protection level. Despite its under-provision of environmental … protection, the standard dominates the tax from a welfare perspective due to its higher productive efficiency, i.e., a smaller … gap between the environmental qualities of the two goods supplied. In stark contrast, voters unanimously prefer a tax to a …
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This paper explores the dynamic effects of trade liberalization on tax revenue using a worldwide panel dataset. Results … point to statistically significant negative effect of liberalization on (non- resource) tax revenues in the short term and … no significant effect in the medium term. Liberalization also alter the tax structure tilting revenues toward indirect …
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The COVID-19 crisis poses new policy challenges and has spurred new research agendas in public economics. In this article, we selectively reflect on how the field of public economics has been shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss several areas where more research is necessary. We highlight...
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are Stackelberg leaders the principal message is that the choice of caps or taxes matters. International trade and tax … more likely, the less severe the climate damage. Hence, cap regulation is inferior to tax regulation insofar as in case of …
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