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This paper focuses on a central issue of fiscal policy applied anywhere in the world of market economies: the problem … to determine which type of taxation, direct taxation or indirect taxation, is better suited to assure maximum efficiency … not only to state which type of taxation must be used preponderantly in Romania, especially today, in times of continuous …
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Using a simple analytical model incorporating benefits of a stock, costs of adjusting the stock, and uncertainty in costs, we uncover several important principles governing the choice of price-based policies (e.g., taxes) relative to quantity-based policies (e.g., tradable permits) for...
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Agriculture contributes significantly to the emissions of greenhouse gases in the EU. By using a farm-type, linear-programming based model of the European agricultural supply, we first assess the initial levels of methane and nitrous oxide emissions at the regional level in the EU. For a range...
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provided by the large scale world energy partial equilibrium model POLES. They were also based on an extensive use of the …
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Even though deforestation in tropical developing countries releases large quantities of greenhouse gases, the Kyoto Protocol does not include mechanisms for forest conservation. Nevertheless, deforestation and forest degradation has now taken centre-stage as the developed countries, having...
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This paper has analysed the import demand for virgin olive oil in the EU andmore precisely in the Italian market, as it concentrates more than 80% of EU imports,aiming to determine the relative position of Mediterranean EU and non-EU countriesexports and their degree of substitutability or...
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previous year were shown to be significant at 0.05%. Also price, income, and cross elasticities of demand for particleboard …
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Japan consists of four large islands - Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu - and roughly 7 000 smaller islands and islets. In terms of natural terrain and climatic conditions Japan is a diverse country. There are also differences in the history, life styles and dietary habits of people living...
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with annual datafrom 1984 to 2002 to estimate demand elasticities. The variables thatexplained the demand changes were … demand for imports was 0.913, relative price elasticity-0.368, and exchange rate elasticity -0.519. The main conclusion …
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During the last years, low price products (e.g., private label) gain increasing market shares in theGerman meat market …. Compared to other countries the share of branded meat from integratedproduction chains is very low and most fresh meat is sold … much lower costs we examine the brand transfer from thepoultry to the red meat market taking Wiesenhof, the German brand …
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