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This paper analyses the political economy of environmental policies in the presence of an eco-industry pressure group. Previous studies have dealt with two types of lobbies: capitalists and environmentalists. We introduce a third pressure group representing the eco-industry sector. Under this...
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We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....
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high availability. Moreover, the subsidy scheme is substantially more complex than a first-best Pigouvian tax. The optimal … renewable subsidy is always positive but tends to decrease as electricity production becomes less reliant on fossils. The … optimal storage subsidy even changes its sign. It is usually negative as long as fossils contribute to filling the storage …
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welfare argument. Moreover, different tax systems are compared with respect to the size of the subsidy needed for achieving a … adverse effects of subsidies can at least be alleviated. A proportional subsidy to capital increases the overall capital stock …, enabling to draw utility from a wider variety of goods. However, the regional effects are different: compared to the no-subsidy …
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developing country and we analyze the effects of a subsidy program to pollution abatement industry located in the North. We find … that, contrarily to common intuition, the subsidy to the pollution abatement equipment industry might reduce welfare in the …
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garden" of content. The subsidy makes it possible for sponsored data access without debiting a monthly data allowance …
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of sites suitable for RE. We find that the optimal RE subsidy is differentiated according to productivity and derive a …
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