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On the optimal design of place-based policies: A structural evaluation of EU regional transfers
Blouri, Yashar; von Ehrlich, Maximilian - 2017
We quantify general equilibrium effects of place-based policies in a multiregion framework with mobility, trade and agglomeration economies. Using detailed data on EU transfers, we infer the local effects of different transfer types on productivity, income and transportation cost. Based on these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112062
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On the optimal design of place-based policies : a structural evaluation of EU regional transfers
Blouri, Yashar; Ehrlich, Maximilian von - 2017
We quantify general equilibrium effects of place-based policies in a multiregion framework with mobility, trade and agglomeration economies. Using detailed data on EU transfers, we infer the local effects of different transfer types on productivity, income and transportation cost. Based on these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741693
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Earmarked Taxation for Financing Public Investments Projects
Grazzini, Lisa; Petretto, Alessandro - Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, … - 2011
of the P-P-P literature, we examine the trade-off between fi…nancing mechanisms based on public subsidies to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370185
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Fiscal Policies in Highly Unequal Societies: Implications for Agricultural Growth
Lopez, Ramon E. - In: eJADE: electronic Journal of Agricultural and … 04 (2007) 1
The paper discusses the economic effects of misallocation of public expenditures in favor of private goods rather than public goods. It first lays out certain key hypotheses regarding the consequences of the apparent public sector allocation inefficiency and the factors that explain this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009326625
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Fiscal policies in highly unequal societies: implications for agricultural growth
López, Ramón - In: The Electronic Journal of Agricultural and Development … 4 (2007) 1, pp. 123-145
The paper discusses the economic effects of misallocation of public expenditures in favor of private goods rather than public goods. It first lays out certain key hypotheses regarding the consequences of the apparent public sector allocation inefficiency and the factors that explain this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755098
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Cotton-textile-apparel sectors of India:
Bedi, Jatinder S.; Cororaton, Caesar B. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"Cotton, textiles, and apparel are critical agricultural and industrial sectors in India. This study provides descriptions of these sectors and examines the key developments emerging domestically and internationally that affect the challenges and opportunities the sectors face. More than four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037990
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Cotton-Textile-Apparel sectors of Pakistan: Situations and challenges faced
Cororaton, Caesar B.; Salam, Abdul; Altaf, Zafar; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"Cotton, textiles, and apparel are critical agricultural and industrial sectors in Pakistan. This study provides descriptions of these sectors and examines the key developments emerging domestically and internationally that affect the challenges and opportunities they face. One-quarter of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038095
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Emissions taxes and abatement regulation under uncertainty
Christiansen, Vidar; Smith, Stephen - 2013
We consider environmental regulation in a context where firms invest in abatement technology under conditions of uncertainty about subsequent abatement cost, but can subsequently adjust output in the light of true marginal abatement cost. Where an emission tax is the only available instrument,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291668
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Optimal tax mix in a two-sector growth model with transitional dynamics
Davies, James B.; Zhang, Jie; Zeng, Jinli - 2000
subsidies, consumption taxes do better than uniform income taxes, but can be improved on locally via positive taxation of … physical capital income and a negative tax on labor income. With subsidies the first best can be achieved in a system where: (i …
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Taxes and Benefits: Two Distinct Options to Cheat on the State?
Halla, Martin; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2005
’s decision on claiming unjustified subsidies (e. g. by underreporting income) exists so far. Employing Austrian survey data we … show that the basic attitude towards avoiding taxes (tax morale) and claiming unjustified subsidies (benefit morale) have … economic approach, by alternative theories or simply by more opportunities to cheat on the state by unjustified subsidies in …
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