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start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich …
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We borrow standard assumptions from the non-renewable-resource-taxation and from the directed-technical-change literatures, to take a full account of the incentives to perform R&D activities in a dirty-resource sector and in a clean-resource-substitute sector. We show that a gradual rise in the...
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strict product standard and in addition implements a moderate subsidy to firms, but avoids energy taxes …
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The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe was associated with growing environmental awareness. This paper analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at plant level in the case of Romania using survey data and a Multilevel Regression Model (MRM)....
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Asymmetric regulation of a global pollutant between countries can alter the competitiveness of industries and lead to emissions leakage, which hampers countries’ welfare. In order to limit leakage, governments consider supporting domestic trade exposed firms by subsidizing their investments in...
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We explore the design of self-financing tax/subsidy mechanisms to solve hold-up problems in environmental regulation …. Under Cournot competition, announcing the subsidy rate seems to be preferable to announcing the tax rate. Moreover, for … be designed as self-financing tax/subsidy mechanisms …
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the extant laboratory experiments that measure higher order risk preferences and we find a fair amount of support for this … dichotomy. Our own experiment is the first to look beyond 4th order risk preferences and we examine risk attitudes at even … higher levels. The consistency of these results with expected utility theory and with a few non-expected utility theories is …
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Real-effort experiments are frequently used when examining a response to incentives. For any particular real …
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In this paper we study the behavior of rivals when there is a known probability of imminent entry. Experimental markets are used to collect data on pre- and post-entry production when there is an announced time of possible entry; some markets experience entry and other do not. In all pre-entry...
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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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