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This paper empirically estimates the effects of electric vehicles (EVs) on passenger car emissions to inform the design of policies that encourage EV purchases in Norway. We use exceptionally rich data on the universe of cars and households from Norway, which has a very high share of EVs, thanks...
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endogenous fuel-specific technological change shows that subsidies cannot substitute for explicit carbon pricing and that even a …
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Welfare economics, scope and performance of government, externalities, public goods, cost-benefit analysis, subsidies … addresses externalities, provided the social return is above a threshold. This paper argues that another consideration needs to … be brought into the mix - whether, in spite of the externalities, the private sector has an incentive to undertake the …
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searching process of individual investors and the information externalities of investors in the aggregate. Policy implications …
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This paper examines the possibility of ascertaining the welfare changes that occur when a consumption tax replaces an equal-yield income tax. It finds that those with saving/income ratios greater than the social saving/income ratio under the income tax will surely benefit and those with ratios...
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The paper emphasizes the role of institutions and incentives in the presence of externalities. An economy with multiple …
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External headwinds, together with domestic vulnerabilities, have loomed over the prospects of emerging markets in recent years. We propose an empirical toolbox to quantify the impact of external macro-financial shocks on domestic economies in parsimonious way. Our model is a Bayesian VAR...
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externalities associated with exchange rate movements. Does this make it optimal to impose capital controls or should policymakers …
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incorporates consumption, leisure, mortality and inequality, and we extend the methodology to include environmental externalities …
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