Similar Search Results

Quantifying distortions from pollution in a R&D endogenous growth model

Neves Sequeira, Tiago; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra - In: Estudios de Economía 41 (2014) 1, pp. 149-159

In this note we study the distortions in an endogenous growth model developed by Grimaud and Tournemaine (2007), where new pieces of knowledge are produced in a R&D sector and used to reduce pollution emissions. Using this model along with a realistic calibration, we conclude that the economy...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538755

Active labor market programs: Employment gain or fiscal drain?

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Koettl, Johannes - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-36

This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs) depending on their objectives, relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, a crisis and recovery. We distinguish ALMPs providing incentives for retaining employment, incentives for creating...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603342

Reducing severance costs or subsidizing permanent job creation: Which policy is more effective to reduce duality?

Osuna, Victoria - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 9 (2015) 2015-17, pp. 1-35

relevance of designing appropriate penalties for those firms that do not comply with the obligations that subsidies involve. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011306670

Can hiring subsidies benefit the unemployed?

Brown, Alessio J. G. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

subsidies can provide temporary incentives for firms to hire unemployed workers and, when sensibly targeted, are a very cost …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404998

Rural development under the European CAP: The role of diversity

Rizov, Marian - In: The Social Science Journal 42 (2005) 4, pp. 621-628

Achieving optimal diversity at community level is a key in solving the rural development problem. In this essay rural development at community level and the impact of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms are analyzed in the framework of privately provided public goods models. It is shown...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985141

The Strategic Trade Policies: Commercial Disputes on the World Aircraft Market

Maha, Liviu-George; Maha, Sorin-Stefan - In: CES Working Papers 4 (2012) 3a, pp. 554-565

The paper aims to illustrate how strategic trade policy is used by analyzing the concrete situation in the world aircraft industry, focusing on the case of the large civil aircrafts and on the regional jet aircrafts. We want to clarify which is the position of GATT / WTO regarding the strategic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012017028

Grant support and exporting activity

Görg, Holger; Henry, Michael; Strobl, Eric - In: The review of economics and statistics 90 (2008) 1, pp. 168-174

This paper investigates whether government support can act to increase exporting activity. We use a uniquely rich data set on Irish manufacturing plants and employ an empirical strategy that combines a non-parametric matching procedure with a difference-in-differences estimator in order to deal...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010314255

Policy analysis with Melitz-type gravity model: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Kimsanova, Barchynai; Herzfeld, Thomas - In: Journal of Asian Economics 80 (2022)

the impact of agricultural policies (credit subsidies and tariffs) on agricultural trade flows by modifying a Melitz … subsidies and decrease with partners' applied tariff rates. We analyze bilateral agricultural trade flows between Kyrgyzstan and … estimator, we find that credit subsidies effectively increase international trade flows while applied tariffs imposed on …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013185276

Subsidies and economic and financial performance of enterprises

Bojnec, Štefan; Žampa, Sabina - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 11, pp. 1-16

number of employees. A distinction is made between enterprises that did and that did not receive subsidies from national and … accounts, own surveys data, and government data on public subsidies to enterprises. The mean values and standard deviations of … enterprises that did receive subsidies with the enterprises that did not receive subsidies in the two financial periods. The …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013201189

Agricultural policies and technical efficiency of wheat production in Kazakhstan and Russia: Evidence from a stochastic frontier approach

Tleubayev, Alisher; Bobojonov, Ihtiyor; Götz, Linde - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 54 (2022) 3, pp. 407-421

analysis shows a negative relation between subsidies and efficiency, other factors, such as farmer’s education, cooperative and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013363195