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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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This paper develops sufficient conditions under which the Weak Green Paradox may (and may not) hold in terms of subsidies for biofuel production such that the supply-side responses by fossil fuel producers may more than offset the substitution to biofuels. Analytical results are derived and...
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Finnish payroll tax subsidy scheme, which is targeted at the employers of older, full-time, low-wage workers. The system …'s clear eligibility criteria open up an opportunity for a reliable estimation of the causal impacts of the subsidy, using a … difference-in-difference-in-differences approach. Our results indicate that the subsidy system had no effects on the employment …
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Using a natural experiment from Germany, we show that temporary place-based subsidies generate persistent effects on …
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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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from the steady state under current R&D subsidization in the US, the R&D subsidy should significantly jump upwards and then … slightly decrease over time. There is a negligible loss in welfare, however, from immediately setting the R&D subsidy to its …
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In a two-period model, firms specialized in two different sectors lobby to induce the government to subsidize the type of education complementary to their production. Lobbying is endogenous. We show that, if lobbying is not costly, both sectors will lobby in equilibrium and education policy will...
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framework that emphasizes commitment. We build a model where the policy-maker has a tariff and a production subsidy at its … the policy substitution problem. Finally, we employ the theory to analyze the Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM …
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outflow to other countries. When the green subsidy is available, countries choose a positive subsidy rate since this reduces … the overall distortion of the tax-subsidy system. In doing so, each country internalizes a larger part of the …. Hence, the subsidy is not only beneficial for the country which imposes it but for all countries …
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imposing negative value-added taxes (subsidy) or positive specific taxes …
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