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Managing Watershed Externalities in India: Theory and Practice
Kerr, John; Milne, Grant; Chhotray, Vasudha; Baumann, Pari - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 9 (2007) 3, pp. 263-281
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010558216
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Emissions Taxes and Abatement Regulation under Uncertainty
Christiansen, Vidar; Smith, Stephen - CESifo - 2013
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877925
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The Perverse Effects of Biofuel Public-Sector Policies
Gorter, Harry de; Drabik, Dusan; Just, David R. - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 5 (2013) 1, pp. 463-483
mandates, subsidies, import barriers, binary sustainability standards, and indirect land use measures, we identify many … hence the food-fuel trade-off, the contradictory effects of combining mandates with different subsidies, the various …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010823014
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Strategic Subsidies for Green Goods
Fischer, Carolyn - 2016
(renewable energy deployment) or upstream development and manufacturing of those technologies. The use of subsidies …—particularly upstream ones—is disciplined by World Trade Organization agreements, and its subsidies code lacks exceptions for transboundary … externalities like human health or resource conservation, including those related to combating global climate change. The strategic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492398
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Environmental Protection for Sale: Strategic Green Industrial Policy and Climate Finance
Fischer, Carolyn - 2016
Industrial policy has long been criticized as subject to protectionist interests; accordingly, subsidies to domestic … offering production (upstream) and deployment (downstream) subsidies in producer countries, allowing that some of the … downstream market may lie in nonregulating third-party countries. Restraints on upstream subsidies erode global welfare when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492399
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Emissions taxes and abatement regulation under uncertainty
Christiansen, Vidar; Smith, Stephen - 2013
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291668
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Child Care in the Welfare State A critique of the Rosen model
Aslaksen, Iulie; Koren, Charlotte - 2000
A recent study of the welfare state in Sweden, Rosen (1995, 1996, 1997), concludes that child care subsidies may lead … extend Rosen's model, we analyze the case of positive externalities associated with child quality. The positive externality … provides a rationale for child care subsidies, as expected, and also influences the optimal income tax rate. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968039
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Who wins and who loses from state subsidies?
Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Stepanok, Ignat - 2022
where other firms are subsidized. These negative externalities depend on the share of firms that receive subsidies in the … competitive. We implement an approach that allows for the joint estimation of direct and indirect effects of subsidies on … subsidized and non-subsidized firms. We find that firms that receive subsidies experience a boost for productivity. However, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013199018
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Who Wins and Who Loses from State Subsidies?
Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Stepanok, Ignat - 2022
where other firms are subsidized. These negative externalities depend on the share of firms that receive subsidies in the … competitive. We implement an approach that allows for the joint estimation of direct and indirect effects of subsidies on … subsidized and non-subsidized firms. We find that firms that receive subsidies experience a boost for productivity. However, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351788
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Real Options: Applications in Public Economics
Lawrence, Craig; Thomas, Mathew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper illustrates the use of real options principles to value prototypical resource and industryinvestment projects. It captures important competitive/strategic dimensions in a step-by-stepanalysis of investment decisions (options) under uncertainty. It compares and contrasts...
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