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Emissions Taxes and Abatement Regulation under Uncertainty
Christiansen, Vidar; Smith, Stephen - CESifo - 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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Habit Formation, Strategic Extremism and Debt Policy
Matsen, Egil; Thogersen, Oystein - 2021
We suggest a probabilistic voting model where voters' preferences for alternative public goods display habit formation. Current policies determine habit levels and in turn the future preferences of the voters. This allows the incumbent to act strategically in order to influence the probability...
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The Economics of Books
Canoy, Marcel F. M.; Ours, Jan C. van; Ploeg, Frederick … - CESifo - 2005
The tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses are analysed and insights from the theory of industrial organisation are given. Governments intervene in the market for books through laws concerning prices of books, grants...
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Some Macroeconomic Consequences of Basic Income and Employment Subsidies
Moutos, Thomas; Scarth, William - CESifo - 2003
Two macro models – one for a closed economy and the other for a small open economy – are used to examine the scope for income redistribution and employment creation. In particular, the introduction of both a guaranteed annual income (basic income) and an employment subsidy are examined, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766286
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The Politician and his Banker
Hainz, Christa; Hakenes, Hendrik - CESifo - 2007
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 …
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Environmental and Technology Policy Options in the Electricity Sector: Interactions and Outcomes
Fischer, Carolyn; Newell, Richard G.; Preonas, Louis - CESifo - 2014
correcting R&D market failures, can be useful complements to emissions pricing, but ambitious renewable targets or subsidies seem …
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Emotions and Political Unrest
Passarelli, Francesco - 2013
This paper formulates a general theory of how political unrest influences public policy. Political unrest is motivated by emotions. Individuals engage in protests if they are aggrieved and feel that they have been treated unfairly. This reaction is predictable because individuals have a...
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Liberation Technology : Mobile Phones and Political Mobilization in Africa
Manacorda, Marco - 2016
Can digital information and communication technology (ICT) foster mass political mobilization? We use a novel geo-referenced dataset for the entire African continent between 1998 and 2012 on the coverage of mobile phone signal together with georeferenced data from multiple sources on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988970
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Political Alignment, Attitudes Toward Government and Tax Evasion
Cullen, Julie Berry - 2018
We ask whether attitudes toward government play a causal role in the evasion of U.S. personal income taxes. We first use individual-level survey data to demonstrate a link between sharing the party of the president and trust in the administration generally and opinions on taxation and spending...
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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Gaechter, Simon; Renner, Elke - CESifo - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people’s behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
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