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Input subsidies in natural resource sectors are widely believed to cause depletion of the natural capital on which … of subsidies on resource extraction. China's fishing fleet is the world's largest, and in 2016 the government changed its … features 25 thresholds at which subsidies discontinuously increase. Using a regression discontinuity design, we estimate that a …
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After being in force ten and seven years respectively, the tradable fishing quota programs for red snapper and grouper-tilefish in the Gulf of Mexico have so far failed to bring about the expected reduction of the active fleet size and shedding of overcapacity. With the help of a microeconomic...
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damaging subsidies is lacking. Environmentally damaging subsidies are all kinds of direct and indirect subsidies aimed at … article develops a transparent method to determine the environmental impact of indirect government subsidies and derive policy … lessons. This method has been applied to several major subsidies in the Netherlands, namely in agriculture, energy, and …
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-tech sectors. Therefore, the effect of subsidies on both R&D input and R&D output is compared between independent high-tech young … highest for independent high-tech firms. The indirect effect of subsidies on R&D output is evaluated within a patent …
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I study how different types of subsidization affect investment decisions in a laboratory experiment. Even though the expected pro t is identical in all treatments, I find highly significant differences between them. In particular, when investment alternatives get subsidized with tax credits the...
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higher for the Western control group coun-tries than for the CEEC sample. EU innovation subsidies partly compensated the CEEC … funding of local governments at the country level, the subsidies crowded in national and local projects at the firm level …
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Swiss climate policy consists of three regulatory instruments for greenhouse gas emissions reduction: A CO 2 levy, the Swiss Emissions Trading System (CH EHS), and an additional nonEHS" program for medium-sized plants that consists of command-and-control elements plus a sizeable abatement...
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Little is known about whether and to what extent the outcome of subsidized and non-subsidized R&D projects differ. In this paper we exploit a novel dataset of patent applications filed in Germany between 1995-2005, which allows us to identify if a patent application stems from a subsidized...
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Well-intended preannounced carbon mitigation policies can lead to adverse impacts such as the green paradox. This paper examines conditions impacting the prevalence of this phenomenon, when suppliers of carbon-free energy, similarly to carbon suppliers, can anticipate the implementation of...
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