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(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 … externalities like human health or resource conservation, including those related to combating global climate change. The strategic …
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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 …
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This paper evaluates the impacts of increasing female representation in Bolivian municipal councils on public policy choices and welfare outcomes. By combining detailed administrative panel data on municipal expenditures and revenues together with electoral data, an innovative regression...
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We investigate how economic inequality can persist in Latin America in the context of radical falls in political inequality in the last decades. Using data from Colombia, we focus on a critical facet of democratization - the entry of new politicians. We show that initial levels of inequality...
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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...
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income taxes as well as capital gains taxes and start-up capital subsidies on the volume and quality of venture capital …
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