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Determining the Environmental Effects of Indirect Subsidies

Beers, Cees van; Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den; Moor, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

damaging subsidies is lacking. Environmentally damaging subsidies are all kinds of direct and indirect subsidies aimed at … article develops a transparent method to determine the environmental impact of indirect government subsidies and derive policy … lessons. This method has been applied to several major subsidies in the Netherlands, namely in agriculture, energy, and …

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The Economics of Climate Change and Science of Global Warming Debate:African Perspectives

Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...

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Energy Prices and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence in the Long Run

Berk, Ýstemi; Yetkiner, Ý. Hakan - Ekonomi Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2013

In this paper, we attempt to derive and test the role of energy prices on economic growth. We first developed a two-sector endogenous growth model, based on Rebelo (1991). We modified the model such that consumption goods sector uses energy as an input along with capital. The model allows us to...

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Should the Private Sector Provide Public Capital?

Chatterjee, Santanu - Society for Computational Economics - SCE - 2006

subsidies. On the other hand, countries with flexible substitution possibilities and relatively smaller externalities may …

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Non-linear Effects of Taxation on Growth

Jaimovich, Nir; Rebelo, Sérgio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We study a model in which the effects of taxation on growth are highly non-linear. Marginal increases in tax rates have a small growth impact when tax rates are low or moderate. When tax rates are high, further tax hikes have a large, negative impact on growth performance. We argue that this...

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Should Public Capital Be Subsidized or Provided?

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Xie, Danyang; Zou, Heng-Fu - EconWPA - 2002

In an endogenous-growth model, we consider alternative ways of providing public capital using distortionary taxes. We …

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Optimal Taxation in a Stochastic Endogenous Growth Model with Congestion

Ott, Ingrid; Soretz, Susanne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2002

In this paper the impacts of income and consumption taxes are analyzed within a model of stochastic endogenous growth …

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An Analysis of Fiscal Policy with Endogenous Investment-Specific Technological Change

Huffman, Gregory W. - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2008

-specific technological change. Labor is used in the production of output and also for research purposes. Labor or capital taxes then distort …

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Stochastic Pollution and Environmental Care in an Endogenous Growth Model

Soretz, Susanne - Society for Computational Economics - SCE - 2002

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Stochastic Pollution and Environmental Care in an Endogenous Growth Model

Soretz, Susanne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2002

This paper analyzes the impact of pollution and abatement policy within a stochastic endogenous growth model. The agents have environmental preferences, but they neglect their individual contribution to aggregate abatement. Therefore, environmental care is done by the government and financed via...

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