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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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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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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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of sites suitable for RE. We find that the optimal RE subsidy is differentiated according to productivity and derive a …
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This paper provides a tractable dynamic stochastic general equilibrium framework with endogenous firm creation and destruction and variable technology utilization to analyze the macroeconomic impact of entry costs and fixed cost subsidies. Based on this setup, we revisit empirical and...
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