Showing 1 - 10 of 175
income taxes as well as capital gains taxes and start-up capital subsidies on the volume and quality of venture capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142333
Imperfect capital markets and commitment problems impede lumpy human capital investments. Labeled loans have been postulated as a potential solution to both constraints, but little is known about the role of the label in influencing investment choices in practice. We draw on a cluster randomized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014371953
This paper attempts to address both theoretical and practical considerations for a tax such as financial transactions taxes (FTT). It includes examples of FTT in the wider context, for example, on stocks and derivatives, currency transactions, and tangible property. Most of the discussion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008987104
This working paper investigates the economic effects of guaranteed loans granted under the EU programmes MAP and CIP on SMEs' growth in Italy, the Benelux and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) from 2002 to 2016. In these macro-regions, the facilities supported 174,107...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011963850
screen out high credit risk and potentially increase access to credit for small business owners in Peru. We use … entrepreneurs who were offered a loan based on the traditional credit-scoring method versus the EFL tool. We find that the … entrepreneurs - i.e., those with a credit history. For unbanked entrepreneurs - i.e., those without a credit history - using the EFL …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485359
This paper examines the implications of that workers may not be able to estimate their true costs of acquiring skills. Consequently, too few workers may acquire skills. This allows for the possibility that subsidizing education is welfare improving. Furthermore, if the presence of skill-biased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142293
correcting R&D market failures, can be useful complements to emissions pricing, but ambitious renewable targets or subsidies seem …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380638
This paper uses willingness to pay (WTP) data from a field experiment in Hyderabad, India in 2013 to determine whether non-monetary prices better target health products to the poor than monetary prices. Monetary WTP is increasing in income and non-monetary WTP is weakly decreasing in income....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011545165
(renewable energy deployment) or upstream development and manufacturing of those technologies. The use of subsidies …-particularly upstream ones-is disciplined by World Trade Organization agreements, and its subsidies code lacks exceptions for transboundary … offering production and consumption subsidies in producer countries, allowing that some of the downstream market may lie in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457645
Industrial policy has long been criticized as subject to protectionist interests; accordingly, subsidies to domestic … offering production (upstream) and deployment (downstream) subsidies in producer countries, allowing that some of the … downstream market may lie in nonregulating third-party countries. Restraints on upstream subsidies erode global welfare when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457653