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Jappelli, Tullio; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2003

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Emission Taxes and the Design of Refunding Schemes

Gersbach, Hans; Requate, Tilman - 2021

We examine how emission taxes should be refunded to firms in order to create optimal incentives to invest in cleaner technologies. Since refunds cannot be made dependent on investments, an alternative way is to give back taxes to firms according to market shares. We show that universally...

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Tax Deductions, Environmental Policy, and the "Double Dividend" Hypothesis

Parry, Ian W. H.; Bento, Antonio M. - 2001

Recent studies find that environmental tax swaps typically exacerbate the costs of the tax system and therefore do not produce a "double dividend". We extend previous models by incorporating tax-favored consumption goods (e.g. housing, medical care). The efficiency gains from recycling...

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Optimal Pollution and Foreign-Investment Taxes in a Small Open Economy

Chao, Chi-Chur; Yu, Eden S. H. - 2014

This paper examines pollution and foreign-capital tax policies on the host country?s welfare when foreign-investment tax credits are absent or present in the source country. In the absence of tax credits, the optimal policy is a pollution tax with a foreign-investment tax or subsidy. The...

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The Welfare Economics of an Excise-Tax Exemption for Biofuels and the Interaction Effects with Farm Subsidies

de Gorter, Harry - 2015

above the gasoline price by the amount of the tax credit. Corn farmers therefore gain directly while gasoline consumers only … optimal tax credit and the conditions affecting it. Historically, the intercept of the ethanol supply curve is above the … gasoline price. Hence, part of the tax credit is redundant and represents `rectangular' deadweight costs that dwarf standard …

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Investment, credit constraints and public policy in a neoclassical adjustment cost framework

Čechura, Lukáš - 2008

This paper deals with the analysis of the impact of credit rationing on the farmer's economic equilibrium and the … the consequence of the occurrence of credit rationing on farmer's capital accumulation, investment and supply. The method … of optimal control is used to solve the optimization problem. The results show that the occurrence of credit rationing …

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Management Strategies for Conservation of Natural Resources in Agriculture

Bachev, Hrabrin - 2013

This paper suggests a holistic framework for assessment and improvement of management strategies for conservation of natural resources in agriculture. First, it incorporates an interdisciplinary approach (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Ecology, Technology, Behavioral and...

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Safety, Risk and the Precautionary Principle : Rethinking Precautionary Approaches to the Regulation of Transgenic Plants

Conko, Gregory - 2015

Operationalizing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety will require resolving disputes about the meaning of the term 'precautionary approach' in the treaty text. Although the terms precautionary approach and precautionary principle have been referred to in the regulation of transgenic plants for...

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Chapter 26 Environmental implications of non-environmental policies

Markandya, Anil - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 3, …, (pp. 1353-1401). 2005

This chapter seeks to understand the linkages between non-environmental polices and the environment, with a particular focus on taxation and subsidies. In order to understand the quite complex literature on this subject, we draw on the theory of the second best and the theory of optimal...

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Agriculture, pesticides and the ecosystem

Pethig, Rüdiger - 2001

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