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Food subsidies in general equilibrium
Hummel, Albert Jan; Ziesemer, Vinzenz - 2021
The Atkinson-Stiglitz theorem on uniform consumption taxation breaks down if prices are endogenous. This paper investigates the implications for optimal food subsidies in China. To do so, we build a general equilibrium model where low-skilled workers have a comparative advantage in the...
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Did the renewable fuel standard shift market expectations of the price of ethanol?
Baumeister, Christiane; Ellwanger, Reinhard; Kilian, Lutz - 2016
It is commonly believed that the response of the price of corn ethanol (and hence of the price of corn) to shifts in biofuel policies operates in part through market expectations and shifts in storage demand, yet to date it has proved difficult to measure these expectations and to empirically...
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Capacity investment under demand uncertainty : an empirical study of the US cement industry, 1994-2006
Ponssard, Jean-Pierre; Thomas, Catherine - 2010
intensive industries, such as cement, by increasing the relative cost of domestic production. -- capacity investment ; demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008696743
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Effects of unilateral climate policy on terms of trade, capital accumulation, and welfare in a world economy
Farmer, Karl (contributor); Friedl, Birgit (contributor);  … - 2008
We present a two-good, two-country overlapping generations model where emissions arise from production and each country has a domestic emission permit system. When one country unilaterally reduces her cap on emissions, her output available for domestic and foreign consumption diminishes more...
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Public pensions and capital accumulation : the case of Brazil
Glomm, Gerhard; Jung, Jürgen; Lee, Changmin; Tran, Chung - 2005
We use an OLG model to study the effects of the generous public sector pension system in Brazil. In our model there are two types of workers, one working in the private sector, the other working in the public sector. Public workers produce infrastructure or education services. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003121038
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Germany's economic unification : an assessment after ten years
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2000
incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the w est …. However, every third deutschmark spent in the east has been coming from the west, investment in equipment has fallen below the … west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high …
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How do taxpayers respond to tax subsidy for long-term savings? : evidence from Thailand's tax return data
Athiphat Muthitacharoen; Trongwut Burong - 2021
This paper uses a panel of personal income tax return data for the population of Thai tax filers to examine how individuals respond to tax subsidy for long-term savings. We utilize the 2013 tax reform that lowered the price subsidy for long-term savings in order to obtain causal identification....
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Consumer sentiment during the Covid-19 pandemic : the role of others' beliefs
Bui, Dzung; Dräger, Lena; Hayo, Bernd; Giang Hong Nghiem - 2021
sentiment. Conducting consumer surveys with randomized control trials (RCTs) in Thailand and Vietnam during the COVID-19 … Thailand, whereas the second treatment is rather symmetric. We find that the information treatments affect consumer sentiment …
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Digital fiscal stimulus and SMEs : insights from Thailand's Half and Half Program
Athiphat Muthitacharoen - 2023 - This Version: January 2024
impact of Thailand's 'Half and Half' program-a targeted, digital co-pay fiscal stimulus-on SMEs and consumer spending …. Utilizing weekly province-level data from LINE MAN Wongnai, a leading digital delivery platform in Thailand, the study offers …
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International capital markets, oil producers and the green paradox
Meijden, Gerard C. van der; Ploeg, Frederick van der; … - 2014
-period world with identical homothetic preferences and without investment, the global interest rate falls and the Green Paradox … weakens. With investment or a relatively more impatient oil-importing region, the Green Paradox may be strengthened because …
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