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Today, a confluence of factors, such as growing concerns about associated consumption externalities and socioeconomic … transport fuel prices, (e.g. Parry 2012), we have found no attempts to do so with the breadth and scope of our analysis. Thus in … (production), indirect costs (road maintenance), and negative externalities (climate change, local pollutants, traffic accidents …
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This paper discusses issues relating to the domestic pricing of petroleum in oil-producing countries. It finds that in most major oil-exporting countries, government policies keep domestic prices below free-market levels, resulting in implicit subsidies that equaled 3.0 percent of GDP, on...
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Conventional financial accounting information is slanted in favour of certain economic interests. This paper argues in favour of accounting information capturing and showing relevant aspects of the economic-social situation, and of decision-making based on it allowing for decisions to be taken...
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Unlike in the pesticide and antibiotic resistance literature, potential social costs and externalities associated with … considered less mobile, compared to insects and diseases, suggesting that externalities resulting from resistance spread will be … minimal and any consequent social costs low. Glyphosate is the world's most widely used broad-spectrum non-selective herbicide …
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We focus here on a set of conceptual problems related to the accepted theory of externalities. We are primarily …. The creation of emissions and the creation of externalities are further not held apart producing flows in the efficiency … market model and the annexed sphere of externalities. We conclude that the accepted policy prescriptions both assume and …
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This paper considers the key economic considerations in tobacco tax policy and its interaction with regulation. How far are high taxes on cigarettes justified by the external costs of smoking, and what other considerations should inform policy decisions about the appropriate level and structure...
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This paper proposes to explore the welfare impacts of the French biodiesel policies on the consumer fuel prices. We use a theoretical model to determine under which conditions a binding mandate may lead to an increase in fuel prices. We distinguish between two cases, i.e. when the mandate is...
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Replaced with revised version of paper 07/18/10.
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The New Zealand government has recently indicated it will scale back its subsidy program for foreign firms investing in … investments, paying particular attention to interjurisdictional competition. I show what factors determine equilibrium subsidy …
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Welfare economics, scope and performance of government, externalities, public goods, cost-benefit analysis, subsidies … addresses externalities, provided the social return is above a threshold. This paper argues that another consideration needs to … be brought into the mix - whether, in spite of the externalities, the private sector has an incentive to undertake the …
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