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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,...
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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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consequences. It describes the policy frameworks to promote renewable energy as well as fossil-fuel subsidies, which are still …
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’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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Government subsidies for R&D are intended to promote projects with high returns to society but too little private …
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subsidies will be favorable for achieving a reduction in long-term unemployment. …
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-best optimal subsidies on electricity generated by wind power when (optimal) emission taxes are ruled out. We further investigate … the impact of subsidies on prices, output, the number of firms, and environmental damage. It turns out that, in the case … of purely private learning, secondbest optimal subsidies should only account for the environmental damage but are not …
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This study focuses on the impact of R&D policies in Flanders. We conduct a treatment effects analysis at the firm level to investigate possible crowdingout effects on the input side of the innovation process. Different specifications of R&D activity are considered as outcome variables in the...
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main focus is the direct impact of subsidies on R&D and the indirect effect on innovation output measured by patent …
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The German biotechnology industry missed the accession of this key technology in the 1980s. Policy makers make different efforts to overcome shortcomings and recent gaps. Public funding schemes have been implemented to establish a flourish biotech industry in Germany. We assume that R&D policy...
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