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We study a dynamic model with two competing durable goods; one dirty, the other clean. Due to network effects a consumer who adopts the dirty good today will increase the incentive future consumers have to adopt the dirty good. Thus, a consumer who chooses the dirty good, in a sense causes more...
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We consider the effects of taxes for competing two-sided platforms. We first detail how a platform passes a tax increase on its prices. Adding price competition, we study next how the tax affects profits. Because of the strategic implications of the cross-side external effects, the tax increase...
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answers and can be used to estimate market power and pass through rates. I show that even a naive one-sided model that ignores …
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subsidies. -- Labor taxation ; human capital investment ; education subsidies ; idiosyncratic risk ; risk properties of human …
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-enhancing as it increases capital investment. This holds for any tax level and any recycling of the tax revenues except for …
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uncertain fuel market returns. Without uncertainty, the unilateral investment tax is welfare-neutral: costless but ineffective … divestment. With uncertainty, the regional investment choice affects global fuel usage, and correspondingly the optimal regional … fuel policy contains a investment tax in addition to taxes on deposit supply and consumption. Even absent terms …
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. Therefore, in an inflationary period generous tax depreciation provisions do not promote private investment as designed, but …
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We examine how emission taxes should be refunded to firms in order to create optimal incentives to invest in cleaner technologies. Since refunds cannot be made dependent on investments, an alternative way is to give back taxes to firms according to market shares. We show that universally...
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