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We introduce transport cost of trade in products into the classical Zodrow and Mieszkowski (1986) model of capital tax competition. It turns out that even small levels of transport cost lead to a complete breakdown of the seminal result, the underprovision of public goods. Instead, there is a...
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restore the efficiency of equilibria …
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We investigate the impacts of electricity market restructuring on fuel efficiency, utilization and, new to this area … without. Our analysis finds that restructuring led to: (1) a two percent improvement in fuel efficiency for IOs, (2) a ten …
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We study upstream horizontal mergers and their potential efficiency gains. We show that an upstream horizontal merger … can give rise to two efficiency-enhancing effects when firms trade through two-part tariffs. It increases R&D investments … efficiency gains can overcome its anti-competitive effects in terms of welfare, we show that when firms merge usually both of the …
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This paper examines the efficient provision of goods in two-sided markets and characterizes optimal specific and ad-valorem taxes. We show that (i) a monopoly may have too high output compared to the social optimum; (ii) output may be reduced by imposing negative value-added taxes (subsidy) or...
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disposal a capital tax and an environmental standard. Petchey (2015) claims that the efficiency result of Oates and Schwab can … be extended to a large price-influencing jurisdiction. In the present note we show that the concept of Pareto efficiency …
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This paper shows that subsidy competition may be efficiency enhancing. We model a subsidy game among two asymmetric …
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This paper attempts to identify the effect of fiscal decentralization on public sector efficiency (PSE). We employ data …
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tax results in overprovision of the public service, while the effects of a capital tax - and thus the relative efficiency …
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Strategic delegation to an independent regulator with a pure consumer standard improves dynamic regulation by mitigating ratchet effects associated with short term contracting. A pure consumer standard alleviates the regulator's myopic temptation to raise output after learning the firm is...
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