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Policies for electrification of the car fleet in the short and long run : subsidizing electric vehicles or subsidizing charging stations?

Hagem, Cathrine; Kverndokk, Snorre; Nævdal, Eric; … - 2022

Abatement can be performed by measures that have an impact on present emissions, but no lasting effect, and by long-lived infrastructure investments. We study the optimal combination of short and long-lived options for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, by specifying abatement cost...

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The efficiency of state aid for the deployment of high-speed broadband : evidence from the French market

Bourreau, Marc; Grzybowski, Lukasz; Muñoz-Acevedo, Ángela - 2023

In this paper, we evaluate the efficiency of the French State aid plan for broadband deployment, the Plan France Très Haut Débit. According to State aid rules, public subsidies should not be substitute for private investment and should target areas with market failures. We estimate a...

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Optimal subsidies for residential solar

Colas, Mark; Saulnier, Emmett - 2023 - This Version: August 2023

We study the spatial misallocation resulting from subsidies for residential solar panels in the US and quantify the associated environmental costs. We build a structural model of solar panel demand and electricity production across the country and estimate the model by combining 1) remotely...

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The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality

Helm, Ines; Koch, Nikolas; Rohlf, Alexander - 2023

We study the effects of a large car scrappage scheme in Germany on new car purchases and local air quality by combining vehicle registration data with data on local air pollutant emissions. For identification we exploit cross-sectional variation across districts in the number of cars eligible...

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The employment effects of a pandemic wage subsidy

Smart, Michael; Kronberg, Matthew; Lesica, Josip; … - 2023

We estimate the causal effects of a pandemic-era wage subsidy program in Canada on job losses and business closures … changes in the wage subsidy rate. The estimated net wage elasticity of employment was 0.11, implying a small aggregate … employment effect of the program and an estimated fiscal cost per job saved of nearly $200,000 per year. Subsidy payments caused …

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Long-term effects of hiring subsidies for unemployed youths : beware of spillovers

Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy …

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Tax treatment of commuter cost

Christiansen, Vidar; Nygård, Odd E. - 2024

cost and commuting cost determine how subsidising or taxing commuting affects behaviour and social efficiency. A subsidy … which the subsidy alleviates or exacerbates the tax distortions, also where housing is tax favoured, as is often the case …

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Levelling the global playing field through optimal non-discriminatory corporate taxes and subsidies

Nocco, Antonella; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Salto, Matteo - 2024

Due to markup distortions, in international trade models with monopolistic competition and heterogeneous firms the market equilibrium is inefficient unless demand exhibits constant elasticity of substitution. When it does not, global welfare maximization generally requires policy intervention...

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Do commuting subsidies drive workers to better firms?

Agrawal, David R.; Jahn, Elke J.; Janeba, Eckhard - 2024

with major reforms of the commuting subsidy formula in Germany, generate worker-specific variation in commuting subsidy …

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Labor market sorting in Germany : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, April 2016

Lochner, Benjamin; Schulz, Bastian - 2016

This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to reconcile prominent empirical models of wage dispersion (Abowd et al., 1999; Card et al., 2013) with theoretical sorting models (Shimer and Smith, 2000; Eeckhout and Kircher, 2011;...

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