subsidies will be favorable for achieving a reduction in long-term unemployment. …

projects whose expected benefits are higher than their total costs when an adverse selection is present. This inefficiency may … be eliminated by a government support in the form of credit guarantees or subsidies. The principal-agent model of this … interest rate is not a sufficiently robust policy instrument. Lump-sum guarantees and interest rate subsidies are evaluated as …

greenhouse gases within a politically imposed timeconstraint. Investment subsidies can be an important instrument to stimulate … adoption subsidies on the amount of energy savings, taking into account endogeneityand uncertainty of technological progress … ofinvestment subsidies, whereas the effects on long-run effectiveness are ambiguous. …

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 …

Energy subsidies are used widely. Although adverse from an efficiency perspective, subsidies confer private benefits on … overcoming the barriers to reform. The starting point is to look at the motives lying behind the adoption of energy subsidies … then looks at the characteristics of countries that use energy subsidies. Countries with weak institutions - often non …

location being determined by the level of education subsidies. For low transport costs, firms agglomerate in one region. We …

subsidies, the solution can be improved upon. The subsidies are shown to be decreasing in income. A social security system with …

government can reshape industry structure through production subsidies to enhance export performance has not been answered. This … paper analyses the impact of production subsidies on firms' export performance using a very comprehensive and recent firm … level database and controlling for the endogeneity of subsidies. It documents robust evidence that production subsidies …