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Tax Policies for Low-Carbon Technologies

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2009

I conclude with some observations on the use of price-based instruments. In particular I discuss how a carbon tax could be designed to achieve environmental goals of emission caps over a control period

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Using Tax Expenditures to Achieve Energy Policy Goals

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2008

Tax expenditures are a major source of support for energy related activities in the federal budget exceeding direct budget support for energy by a factor of nearly six. Focusing on the policy goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and petroleum consumption, I find these tax expenditures...

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Measuring ancient inequality

Milanović, Branko - 2007

"Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...

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The Impact of the Terms of Trade on Economic Development in the Periphery, 1870-1939 : Volatility and Secular Change

Blattman, Christopher - 2004

Most countries in the periphery specialized in the export of just a handful of primary products for most of their history. Some of these commodities have been more volatile than others, and those with more volatile prices have grown slowly relative both to the industrial leaders and to other...

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International Migration in the Long-Run : Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2004

World War I to the quotas and bans introduced afterwards was the result of a combination of factors: public hostility …

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Was It Stolper-Samuelson, Infant Industry or Something Else? World Trade Tariffs 1789-1938

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2003

reports a set of world tariff facts for the 150 years between 1789 and 1938 that have not been well appreciated. First, tariff … industrially-lagging Europe, and more steeply even in Asia. Furthermore, after world tariff rates rose between 1865 and 1900, they … world tariff facts come from two sources: Stolper-Samuelson -- scarce factors should lobby for protection when exposed to …

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Freight Rates and Productivity Gains in British Tramp Shipping 1869-1950

Mohammed, Saif I. Shah - 2003

the precipitous decline in nominal freight rates before the World War I, but it also extends the series to the 1940s …. Furthermore, our new series is linked to the post-World War II era (documented by David Hummels), so that we can be more precise …

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Industrial Catching Up in the Poor Periphery 1870-1975

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2011

that accelerated even more up to 1950-1975. What explains the spread of the industrial revolution world-wide and this … to have taken resource advantages away from the European and North American leaders, and integrating world financial …

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Cursed Resources? Political Conditions and Oil Market Outcomes

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2010

understanding world oil markets …

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When, Where, and Why? Early Industrialization in the Poor Periphery 1870-1940

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2010

This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1940 (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial growth accelerated there over these seven critical...

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