We investigate a cash-out scheme for Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) reparation for the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Station accident in the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011. The scheme enables TEPCO to continue its service as a private company. As its balance sheets...

This paper examines a number of traditional characteristics of the Swedish welfare state, and discusses how they have been changed over time, especially since the economic crisis in the early 1990s. It emphasizes that the country did not only suffer from the economic crisis and recent...

Bovenberg and Mooij (1994) and others pointed out that the optimal taxation on goods with external diseconomy both collects revenue and also corrects the external diseconomy by the goods, and thus it is said that the tax has gdouble dividendsh. The purpose of the present paper is to examine...