policies and strategies with the potential to modify risky health behaviors, such as taxes or subsidies, cash incentives …

can be included in policy selection. This paper studies the equivalence between taxes and subsidies in the control of … negative production externalities. In our models, under the tax regime, firms that take no treatment action to mitigate the … damage caused by their negative externalities are punished, whereas under the subsidy regime, firms are rewarded for …

policies and strategies with the potential to modify risky health behaviors, such as taxes or subsidies, cash incentives …

policies and strategies with the potential to modify risky health behaviors, such as taxes or subsidies, cash incentives …

Welfare economics, scope and performance of government, externalities, public goods, cost-benefit analysis, subsidies … addresses externalities, provided the social return is above a threshold. This paper argues that another consideration needs to … be brought into the mix - whether, in spite of the externalities, the private sector has an incentive to undertake the …