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considers how the design of carbon pricing instruments affects their effectiveness, efficiency and feasibility. Design choices … have undertaken with more stable prices. The paper then evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of policy instruments to …
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Wide differences between effective or realised average tax rates and tax yields that would result if statutory tax rates were strictly applied indicate tax compliance and collection problems. Due to the greater politicisation of tax systems in transition economies (TEs), we would expect the...
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The present article generalyses economic litterature on consumption tax incidence to general forms of consumption taxes. Previous studies were limited to the cases of per unit and ad valorem taxes. Three main contributions are provided. From a methodological point of view, the elasticity of the...
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efficiency of pollution control. (3) It is demonstrated that welfare losses can be minimized within a policy mix by modifying …
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We consider a mining or other extractive project, which is fulfilled on the basis of a production-sharing agreement. These agreements provide for production sharing on the basis of current IRR or current R-factor. The implications of using such production sharing mechanisms are studied with the...
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of a firm's performance. Two alternative definitions of efficiency are proposed: relative productivity and profitability … not a determinant of efficiency and that other factors, in particular, the degree of competition, seem to have a positive …
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This paper assesses the potential effects of introduction of the reduced VAT rate for small business, based on the EU VAT legislation development. The analysis includes effects on prices, sales, shadow economy and employment. It starts with the assumption of no substantial effect. Survey for...
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efficiency of pollution control. (3) It is demonstrated that welfare losses can be minimized within a policy mix by modifying …
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The work constructs projections till 2030 for health care expenditures of Italian Regional Health Care Systems. Three different schemes of financing are hypothesised, with three different levels of solidarity between Regions. Financing is always supposed to cover the entire exigency of...
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After a short review of recent statistics about economic growth and investment expenses in the three Belgian regions, the paper examines the main arguments to compare two kinds of public incentives to invest : targeted incentives and general incentives. The first category includes capital grant...
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