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tax-subsidy combination on different food groups. Using the methods derived from marginal tax reform theory, a formal … and approximate welfare measures of prices changes caused by a tax-subsidycombination. The distributional characteristics … reveal that many of the food groups target by a fat tax are consumed in greater concentration by low-income households than …
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. The fat tax is based on the saturated fat content of fooditems while the thin subsidy is applied to select fruit and … vegetbale items. The policy is designed to be revenue neutral so that the subsidy exactly offsets the revenue from the fat tax … policy. Results show that while the fat tax decreases saturated fat intake, consumption of other important nutrients is also …
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tax-subsidy combination on different food groups. Using the methods derived from marginal tax reform theory, a formal … and approximate welfaremeasures of prices changes caused by a tax-subsidy combination. The distributional characteristics … reveal that many of the food groups targeted by a fat tax are consumed in greater concentration by low-incomehouseholds than …
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Mit der Neuwahl des Europäischen Parlaments (EP) nach der bislang größten Erweiterung der Europäischen Union (EU) steht das Verfahren, wie diese nun 732 Mitglieder umfassende Versammlung gewählt wird, erneut zur Debatte. Denn nach wie vor ist das Wahlrecht zum EP im Wesentlichen national...
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Diese Dissertation untersucht die Regulierung von Krankenversicherungsmärkten und dabei insbesondere Risikoausgleichssysteme (wie z.B. den deutschen Risikostrukturausgleich), die dazu dienen, Risikoselektion durch Krankenversicherungen zu reduzieren oder gar zu verhindern. Im 2. Kapitel der...
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"Our focus in this paper is with the transaction costs inherent in most decision making settings. We specifically investigate an "institution free" collective choice mechanism that includes costs to calling votes. A set of models show that under low costs (i.e., where no cost-induced equilibrium...
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Environmental policies with output-based refunding of the revenues effectively combine a tax on emissions with a … subsidy to output. Three similar forms exist: tradable performance standards, an emissions tax with rebates, and tradable … tax reduces the incentive to abate, nor will marginal abatement costs be equalized if costs differ. These results hold in …
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Political pressure often exists to earmark environmental tax revenues or permit rents to the industry affected by the … tax with market-share rebates, and tradable permits with output-based allocation. All three policies effectively combine a … tax on emissions with a subsidy to output. The result is a shifting of emissions control efforts toward greater emissions …
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Anticipating the impact of changes in economic incentives on dietary quality and nutritional health requires knowledge of how physical quantities of food consumed respond to price and income variations. A problem arises, however, because physical quantities are: 1- not consistent aggregates in...
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regulators that have been more successful in promotingtheir versions of what accounting theory should be, which place a … questionmark on the legitimacy of current day accounting theory. This thesis aims todelve deeper into the foundational philosophies … conceptual framework became the basis upon whichaccounting theory is based. However, many accounting scholars are openlycritical …
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