We estimate the causal effects of a pandemic-era wage subsidy program in Canada on job losses and business closures … changes in the wage subsidy rate. The estimated net wage elasticity of employment was 0.11, implying a small aggregate … employment effect of the program and an estimated fiscal cost per job saved of nearly $200,000 per year. Subsidy payments caused …

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 …

In this paper, we analyse the role of mobility in tax and subsidy competition. Our primary result is that increasing … mobility intensifies tax competition, it weakens subsidy competition. The resulting fall in the governments' subsidy payments … in which two governments are first engaged in subsidy competition and thereafter in tax competition, and firms locate and …