We study the role of the administrative design of energy subsidy programs aimed at encouraging households' transition … to cleaner energy sources. Our context is the universal subsidy for clean cooking gas (LPG) in India - households first … purchase LPG at the market price (over-the-counter) and then receive a "cash-back" subsidy in their bank account. The subsidy …

firms where government subsidizes entry of domestic entrepreneurs. Under autarky the entry subsidy indirectly corrects for …

, when a Pigouvian tax on conventional fuels such as crude is in place, the optimal biofuel subsidy is zero. When the tax on … crude is not available as a policy option, however, a second-best biofuel subsidy (or tax) is optimal. In the large …-country case, the optimal tax on crude departs from its standard Pigouvian level and a biofuel subsidy is optimal. A biofuel …

in many place based policies. The optimal hiring subsidy is city specific in the sense that it depends upon the local …