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unable for institutional reasons to diversify their loan risks either within agriculture or across other geographically …
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) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full evaluation of the impacts, it uses a counterfactual global model scenario … that currently tax agriculture have high emission intensities. Policies that directly reduce emission intensities yield …
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This paper argues that a price wedge treatment of agricultural supports can seriously misrepresent their welfare and quantity effects. We make our point by focusing on pre-1985 US wheat programs, but features of programs in many other countries lead to comparable problems with the ad valorem...
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regression in order to generate coefficients that are easily interpreted using economic theory does not affect the results. Based …
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This paper shows that there is a presumption that Pareto efficient taxation entails a positive tax on capital. When tax and expenditure policies can affect the market distribution of income in ways that cannot be directly offset, those effects need to be taken into account, reducing the burden...
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This paper studies the market provision of a specific type of public good: radio and television broadcasts. Its main focus is to explore the ability of the market to provide broadcasting efficiently in a world in which broadcasters earn revenues by selling time to advertisers and advertisements...
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This paper builds a single model that can be used to show efficiency and distributional effects of eight different … approaches can be designed to have the same efficiency effects, even while they have different distributional effects. For … efficiency, enforcement capabilities, and political feasibility). The paper ends with a discussion of likely trade-offs among …
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This paper examines the efficiency gains from linking marginal Social Security benefits to marginal Social Security … effective marginal federal government taxation of labor supply would average roughly 38 percent. Since the efficiency costs of … dead weight loss of labor income taxation.The findings of this paper suggest that there may be very significant efficiency …
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This paper describes an efficiency approach to the evaluation of policy changes. Rather than comparing the utility …
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This paper surveys recent developments in the theory of pareto efficient taxation. This literature attempts to …
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