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Efectos del nuevo Sistema General de Regalías sobre el desempeño fiscal municipal: un análisis dosis-respuesta
Bonet, Jaime; Finol, Karelys Guzmán; Urrego, Joaquín; … - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - ECONOMÍA REGIONAL - 2014
municipality level in 2012 employing a dose-response analysis, for a sample of 1,025 municipalities. It was found that in the 93 …% of municipalities, where the proportion of royalties in their total revenues are less or equal to 20%, the fiscal … resources but did not guarantee their appropriation by the municipalities, these results can be explained by the low execution …
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Regulating the Dutch Waste Market
Dijkgraaf, E. - EconWPA - 2005
Elbert Dijkgraaf defended his PhD-thesis 'Regulating the Dutch Waste Market' at 5 november 2004. This thesis analyses whether the risen costs of waste collection and treatment can be diminished by changing policy instruments. The thesis shows that user fees are very effective in reducing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561378
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Why tax effort falls short of capacity in Indian states: A Stochastic frontier approach
Garg, Sandya; Goyal, Ashima; Pal, Rupayan - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) - 2014
Taxation is an important tool to enhance the economic development and to finance the expenditure responsibilities of a government. This paper attempts to measure the tax capacity and tax effort of 14 major Indian states from 1992-92 to 2010-11 using Stochastic Frontier Analysis. The use of tax...
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Local or national environmental spending in Italy: a stochastic frontier analysis
Auci, Sabrina; Castelli, Annalisa; Vignani, Donatella - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The design of environmental spending at the national or local level stands on the concept of subsidiarity and on the theory of fiscal federalism. The main question is, so forth, studying when centralization of a public economic function, such as the protection of the environment, is welfare...
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Cost savings of unit-based pricing of household waste: The case of the Netherlands
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond - EconWPA - 2004
Using a panel data set for Dutch municipalities we estimate effects for weight-based, bag-based, frequency-based and … compostable and increasing recyclable waste. Pricing has no effect on the waste collected in surrounding municipalities (waste …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125898
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Environmental activism and dynamics of unit-based pricing systems
Dijkgraaf, E.; Gradus, R. - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 2008
decreasing over time, so that the most environmental friendly municipalities implement unit-based pricing systems at first. In …
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Environmental activism and dynamics of unit-based pricing systems
Dijkgraaf, E.; Gradus, R. - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 2008
decreasing over time, so that the most environmental friendly municipalities implement unit-based pricing systems at first. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783039
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Efficiency Effects of Unit-based Pricing Systems and Institutional Choices of Waste Collection
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
municipalities. …
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Measures Supporting Minerals and Primary Metals Extraction and Processing: Case Study: Australia
Griffith, Marnie - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013
Efforts to document government support benefiting specific sectors or industries have so far paid scant attention to support given to the non-energy minerals sector. In this paper the issue of support for this sector is explored by way of a case study of Australia, a leading producer and...
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The Political Economy of Coal Subsidies in Europe
Anderson, Kym - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
Both the mining and the burning of coal is pollutive, so one might expect to observe taxes on coal production and consumption. Yet several countries in Western Europe subsidize coal production, and most East European countries subsidize coal consumption. The first part of this paper shows that...
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