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Ownership and Use Taxes as Congestion Correcting Instruments
Chia, Ngee-Choon; Tsui, Albert K.C; Whalley, John - 2021
In countries, such as Singapore, that have implemented vehicle congestion policies, recent years have seen a shift towards motor vehicle taxes based on car use. Ownership taxes reduce the number of cars on the road, leaving the price per trip largely unaffected. Use taxes such as fuel taxes and...
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Efficient Local Government Service Provision : the Role of Privatization and Public Sector Unions
Jerch, Rhiannon - 2016
Local governments spend roughly $1.6 trillion per year to provide a variety of public services ranging from police and fire protection to public schools and public transit. However, we know little about public sector's productivity in delivering key services. To understand the productivity both...
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Do Hospitals Cross Subsidize?
David, Guy - 2011
Cross-subsidies are often considered the principal mechanism through which hospitals provide unprofitable care. Yet, hospitals' reliance on and extent of cross-subsidization are difficult to establish. We exploit entry by cardiac specialty hospitals as an exogenous shock to incumbent hospitals'...
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The Political Risks of Fighting Market Failures : Subversion, Populism and the Government Sponsored Enterprises
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2012
There are many possible ways of reforming the Government-Sponsored Enterprises that insure mortgages against default, including a purely public option, complete privatization or a hybrid model with private firms and public catastrophic insurance. If the government is sufficiently capable and...
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Place Based Policies with Unemployment
Kline, Patrick - 2013
in many place based policies. The optimal hiring subsidy is city specific in the sense that it depends upon the local …
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Incidence and Environmental Effects of Distortionary Subsidies
Heutel, Garth - 2014
factor prices and on environmental outcomes. We model an output subsidy, a capital subsidy, relief from environmental … regulation, and a direct cash subsidy. In exchange for receiving subsidies, firms must agree to a minimum level of labor … employment. Each type of subsidy and the employment constraint create both output effects and substitution effects on input …
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Price-Linked Subsidies and Imperfect Competition in Health Insurance
Jaffe, Sonia - 2017
of one policy response: linking subsidies to prices, to target a given post-subsidy premium. We show that these price …
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Guns, Latrines, and Land Reform : Private Expectations and Public Policy
Kremer, Michael - 2016
Dynamically and statically optimal Pigouvian subsidies on durables will differ in a growing economy. For durables with positive externalities, such as sanitation, statically optimal subsidies will typically grow. However, in a dynamic game, governments can most cheaply induce optimal purchasing...
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Infrastructure, Incentives and Institutions
Ashraf, Nava - 2016
Cities generate negative, as well as positive, externalities; addressing those externalities requires both infrastructure and institutions. Providing clean water and removing refuse requires water and sewer pipes, but the urban poor are often unwilling to pay for the costs of that piping....
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Subsidies to Industry and the Environment
Kelly, David L. - 2010
productive use, the economy wide marginal product of emissions falls with an increase in any subsidy, tending to decrease …
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