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Understanding Public Support for Externality-Correcting Taxes and Subsidies: A Lab Experiment
Heres, David; Kallbekken, Steffen; Galarraga, Ibon - 2013
The potential of taxation to correcting environmental externalities has been long recognized among economists. Yet …, this welfare-enhancing policy commonly faces strong opposition by citizens. Conversely, externality-correcting subsidies … subsidies. In an experimental market with a negative externality, participants vote on the introduction of Pigouvian taxes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010855164
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Escaping the Poverty Trap: Investing in Children in Latin America
Aldaz-Carroll, Enrique; Birdsall, Nancy; Castañeda, … - Inter-American Development Bank
Escaping the Poverty Trap proposes early childhood investment policies that could decisively change the prospects for the next generation of the region's poor. Contributors include Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and Gro Harlem Brundtland, former director-general of the World Health Organization. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943564
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Young innovative companies (YICs) and entrepreneurship policy
Mas-Tur, Alicia; Simón Moya, Virginia - In: Journal of Business Research 68 (2015) 7, pp. 1432-1435
the form of subsidies. Through this analysis, the study determines the profile of YICs that receive public innovation aid … variables act as moderating variables. Size of the YIC and the entrepreneur's sex significantly affect access to subsidies. The … to subsidies. …
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Use of donor funds in the financing of MFIs
Hudon, Marek - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2007
This paper focuses on the use of donor funds to finance MFIs. The role of donors in microfinance is rapidly evolving, particularly since the emergence of socially responsible and commercial investors. We argue that public policy should be designed to facilitate the entry of new private actors...
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Evaluación del impacto de los subsidios a la demanda de energía eléctrica sobre el consumo de electricidad de los hogares vulnerables: análisis de alternativas al esquema
Beleño Hernández, Andrea Margarita; Casas Bautista, … - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014583280
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Public R&D Policy: The Right Turns of the Wrong Screw? The Case of the German Biotechnology Industry
Fier, Andreas; Heneric, Oliver - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097735
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Escaping the Poverty Trap: Investing in Children in Latin America
Aldaz-Carroll, Enrique; Birdsall, Nancy; Castañeda, … - Inter-American Development Bank
Escaping the Poverty Trap proposes early childhood investment policies that could decisively change the prospects for the next generation of the region's poor. Contributors include Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and Gro Harlem Brundtland, former director-general of the World Health Organization. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772486
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Short Considerations on Tax Competition for SMEs
Tudor, Florin - In: EuroEconomica (2011) 27, pp. 86-94
Tax competition is particularly evident with regard to attracting foreign direct investment, portfolio investment to finance investment, higher skilled jobs, etc. Taxpayers may choose thus the tax for those residences that offer a combination of public goods and taxes that satisfy the highest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008924666
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Subsidy Policy for Innovation : A way to reach objectives of both higher growth and equity ?
Montmartin, Benjamin - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2010
the policy is not geographically differentiated. In the case where the government however grants larger subsidies to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008774505
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Subsidy Policy for Innovation: A way to reach objectives of both higher growth and equity?
Montmartin, Benjamin - HAL - 2010
the policy is not geographically differentiated. In the case where the government however grants larger subsidies to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789114