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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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to environmentally sensitive industries increases output and pollution emissions. We examine the environmental effects of … productive use, the economy wide marginal product of emissions falls with an increase in any subsidy, tending to decrease … pollution emissions if resources are moved to an industry for which emissions intensity is high enough to overcome the reduction …
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Despite increasing calls for reform many countries continue to provide subsidies for gasoline and diesel. This paper …
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's forthcoming TPS for achieving CO<sub>2</sub> emissions reductions from the power sector.We find that the TPS's implicit subsidy to … subsidy disadvantages the TPS relative to C&T by causing power plants to make less efficient use of output-reduction as a way …
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Set-asides and subsidies are used extensively in government procurement and natural resource sales. We analyze these policies in an empirical model of U.S. Forest Service timber auctions. The model fits the data well both within the sample of unrestricted sales where we estimate the model, and...
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A key rationale for fiscal stimulus is to boost consumption when aggregate demand is perceived to be inefficiently low. We examine the ability of the government to increase consumption by evaluating the impact of the 2009 "Cash for Clunkers" program on short and medium run auto purchases. Our...
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Public financing of private health insurance may generate external effects beyond the subsidized population, by influencing the size and bargaining power of health insurers. We test for this external effect in the context of Medicare Part D. We analyze how Part D-related insurer size increases...
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Freddie Mac as government sponsored enterprises (GSEs). The options considered include GSE reform, a range of possible new … led to their failure in conjunction with the recent mortgage market crisis. The reform options we consider include those …
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of people who would have been eligible under pre-recession subsidy rules. The non-elderly parts of the safety net have …
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Many American communities seek to attract or retain businesses with tax abatements, tax credits, or tax increment financing of infrastructure projects (TIFs). The evidence for 1999 indicates that communities are most likely to offer one or more of these business development incentives if their...
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