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Welfare effects of a transport subsidy in a spatial price equilibrium
Bröcker, Johannes - 1998
subsidising transport. Therefore transport can be said to exert a positive (pecuniary) externality. This is demonstrated by … introducing a subsidy into a partial spatial price equilibrium of the Hotelling-Smithies type in one-dimensional space. Two … varieties of demand are analysed, linear and negative exponential. The welfare effect of a transport subsidy is shown to be …
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Phases of higher education, tuition grants, and equity-efficiency tradeoff
Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2021
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Economics of farm input subsidies in Africa
Holden, Stein Terje - In: Annual review of resource economics 11 (2019), pp. 501-522
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If You Build It, Will They Come?: Fiscal Federalism, Local Provision of Public Tourist Amenities, and the Vision Iowa Fund
Quackenbush, Austin; Premkumar, Deepak; Artz, Georgeanne M. - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2011
The philosophy of fiscal federalism presumes that local communities will under- or over-provide public amenities in the presence of externalities.  We test this hypothesis using data from Vision Iowa, a state program which provided partial funding to communities to build tourist attractions. ...
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Optimal subsidies for prevention of infectious disease
Goodkin-Gold, Matthew; Kremer, Michael; Snyder, … - 2020
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Strategic individual behaviors and the efficient vaccination subsidy
Matsueda, Norimichi - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 24 (2024) 3, pp. 905-927
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The Illusion of Sustainability
Kremer, Michael; Miguel, Edward - 2004
The history of foreign development assistance is one of movement away from addressing immediate needs to a focus on the underlying causes of poverty. A recent manifestation is the move towards “sustainability,” which stresses community mobilization, education, and cost-recovery. This stands...
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Optimal subsidies for prevention of infectious disease
Kremer, Michael; Williams, Heidi; Snyder, Christopher M.; … - 2020
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Regulation of morally responsible agents with motivation crowding
Fünfgelt, Joachim; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2012
We study the regulation of a morally responsible agent in the context of a negative consumption externality and …
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A modelling approach for allocating land-use in space to maximise social welfare - exemplified on the problem of wind power generation
Drechsler, Martin; Ohl, Cornelia; Meyerhoff, Jürgen; … - 2010
Land-use conflicts arise if land is scarce, land-use types are mutually exclusive, and vary in their effects with regard to more than one incongruent policy objective. If these effects depend on the spatial location of the land-use measures the conflict can be mediated through an appropriate...
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