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Electoral Incentives and the Allocation of Public Funds

Finan, Frederico - 2016

It is widely believed that politicians allocate public resources in ways to maximize political gains. But what is less clear is whether this comes at a cost to welfare; and if so, whether alternative electoral rules can help reduce these costs. In this paper, we address both of these questions by...

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Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government

Becker, Gary S.; Mulligan, Casey B. - 2021

We provide a model for analyzing effects of the tax system and spending programs on the determination of government spending and taxpayer welfare and show that tax system or spending program which is suboptimal from a Ramsey point of view can improve taxpayer welfare because the system creates...

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Leakage, Welfare, and Cost-Effectiveness of Carbon Policy

Baylis, Kathy - 2014

We extend the model of Fullerton, Karney, and Baylis (2012 working paper) to explore cost-effectiveness of unilateral climate policy in the presence of leakage. We ignore the welfare gain from reducing greenhouse gas emissions and focus on the welfare cost of the emissions tax or permit scheme....

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Which Social Cost of Carbon? A Theoretical Perspective

Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2016

This paper develops a theoretical foundation for the social cost of carbon (SCC). The model highlights the source of debate over whether countries should use the global or domestic SCC for regulatory impact analysis. I identify conditions under which a country's decision to internalize the...

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An Assessment of the Energy-Efficiency Gap and its Implications for Climate-Change Policy

Gerarden, Todd - 2015

Improving end-use energy efficiency—that is, the energy-efficiency of individuals, households, and firms as they consume energy—is often cited as an important element in efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. Arguments for improving energy efficiency usually rely on the idea that...

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Monetary Easing, Leveraged Payouts and Lack of Investment

Acharya, Viral V.; Plantin, Guillaume - 2022

, potentially spurring productive investment. Low interest rates, however, also induce entrepreneurs to lever up so as to increase … their incentives thereby lowering productivity and discouraging investment. If leverage is unregulated (for example, due to … payouts by stimulating investment in response to adverse shocks only up to a level below the first-best. The optimal monetary …

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An Empirical Characterization of the Dynamic Effects of Changes in Government Spending and Taxes on Output

Blanchard, Olivier J.; Perotti, Roberto - 2021

increases in government spending have a strong negative effect on investment spending …

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Climate Change and Long-Run Discount Rates : Evidence from Real Estate

Giglio, Stefano - 2015

The optimal investment to mitigate climate change crucially depends on the discount rate used to evaluate the … investment's uncertain future benefits. The appropriate discount rate is a function of the horizon over which these benefits … accrue and the riskiness of the investment. In this paper, we estimate the term structure of discount rates for an important …

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Jump Starting the Euro Area Recovery : Would a Rise in Core Fiscal Spending Help the Periphery?

Blanchard, Olivier J. - 2015

We show that a fiscal expansion by the core economies of the euro area would have a large and positive impact on periphery GDP assuming that policy rates remain low for a prolonged period. Under our preferred model specification, an expansion of core government spending equal to one percent of...

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How Do Laffer Curves Differ Across Countries?

Trabandt, Mathias - 2012

We seek to understand how Laffer curves differ across countries in the US and the EU-14, thereby providing insights into fiscal limits for government spending and the service of sovereign debt. As an application, we analyze the consequences for the permanent sustainability of current debt...

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