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A Note on Optimal Income Redistribution in a Creative Region
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2017
We study optimal income redistribution in a region that is creative in the sense of Richard Florida and thereby extend aspects of the recent analysis in Batabyal and Beladi (2017). Using the terminology of these researchers, members of the creative class are either artists or engineers. This...
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A Note on Optimal Income Redistribution in a Creative Region
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2017
We study optimal income redistribution in a region that is creative in the sense of Richard Florida and thereby extend aspects of the recent analysis in Batabyal and Beladi (2017). Using the terminology of these researchers, members of the creative class are either artists or engineers. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941806
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Sustained Economic Growth and Physical Capital Taxation in a Creative Region
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Beladi, Hamid - 2022
We study the properties of economic growth in a region that is driven by the activities of the so-called creative class. On the consumption side of our regional economy, we focus on an infinitely lived creative class household and on the production side of this same economy, we concentrate on a...
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On Pessimism and Optimism by Forward Looking Agents and the Need for Social Security
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2017
We study whether pessimism and optimism about the future by forward looking agents provides a rationale for social security. We first distinguish between an agent's true and pessimistic preferences and then analyze whether this agent's level of saving depends on the pessimism parameter (π) and...
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Tanneries in Kanpur and pollution in the Ganges : a theoretical analysis
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 15 (2023) 5, pp. 1114-1123
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On pessimism and optimism by forward looking agents and the need for pensions
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - In: Asia-Pacific journal of regional science 2 (2018) 1, pp. 1-14
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[Rezension von: Georgiou, Stavros, ..., Economic values and the environment in the developing world]
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - In: Kyklos : international review for social sciences 51 (1998) 1, pp. 139-140
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Price competition, pollution, and environmental policy in an open economy
Xu, Qing; Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - In: The annals of regional science : an international … 35 (2001) 1, pp. 59-79
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Centralized versus decentralized cleanup of river water pollution : an application to the Ganges
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Beladi, Hamid - In: Games 14 (2023) 5, pp. 1-12
We exploit the public good attributes of Ganges water pollution cleanup and theoretically analyze an aggregate economy … pollution cleanup in these two cities ought to be provided in a centralized or in a decentralized manner. We first determine the … compute the optimal amount of water pollution cleanup in the two cities in a decentralized regime in which spending on cleanup …
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A Political Economy Model of the Ganges Pollution Cleanup Problem
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2020
We study pollution cleanup in the Ganges in Varanasi, India. Voters elect politicians and elected politicians decide … how much pollution to clean up. Between the two time periods, there is an election. Politicians are sincere or insincere …. The marginal cost of public funds ζ measures how efficiently elected politicians transform tax receipts into pollution …
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