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Industry Compensation Under Relocation Risk : A Firm-Level Analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
Martin, Ralf - 2013
When regulated firms are offered compensation to prevent them from relocating, efficiency requires that payments be distributed across firms so as to equalize marginal relocation probabilities, weighted by the damage caused by relocation. We formalize this fundamental economic logic and apply it...
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Skill-Specific Rather then General Education : A Reason for Us-Europe Growth Differences?
Krueger, Dirk; Kumar, Krishna B. - 2021
education subsidy policy we demonstrate that the optimal subsidy for general education increases with the growth rate of …
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Child Care Subsidies and Child Development
Herbst, Chris M. - 2010
of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is that it overemphasizes work and does little to encourage … care subsidies for child development. In this paper, we provide a systematic assessment of the impact of subsidy receipt on … relationship between child care subsidies and child development. In particular, our results suggest that subsidy receipt in the …
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Value Based Cost Sharing Meets the Theory of Moral Hazard : Medical Effectiveness in Insurance Benefits Design
Pauly, Mark V. - 2010
The conventional theory of optimal coinsurance rates in health insurance in the presence of moral hazard indicates that, in situations of equal risk characteristics, coinsurance should vary if the price-responsiveness or price-elasticity of demand for different medical services varies, and...
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Quantifying Equilibrium Network Externalities in the Ach Banking Industry
Ackerberg, Daniel A. - 2010
We seek to determine the causes and magnitudes of network externalities for the automated clearinghouse (ACH) electronic payments system. We construct an equilibrium model of customer and bank adoption of ACH. We structurally estimate the parameters of the model using an indirect inference...
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Mortgage Default and Low Downpayment Loans : The Costs of Public Subsidy
Deng, Yongheng - 2010
This paper presents a unified model of the default and prepayment behavior of homeowners in a proportional hazard framework. The model uses the option-based approach to analyze default and prepayment and considers these two interdependent hazards as competing risks. The results indicate the...
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Mandates and the Affordability of Health Care
Glied, Sherry - 2009
This paper examines the economic rationale of affordability exemptions in the context of a health insurance mandate. On its face, an affordability exemption makes little sense-- it exempts people from purchasing a good that policymakers believe benefits them. I provide an economic definition of...
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How to Restructure Failed Banking Systems : Lessons from the U.S. In the 1930's and Japan in the 1990's
Calomiris, Charles W. - 2009
The costs of government assistance to banks depend on the way rescues are managed. The cnetral questions of policy reference do not revolve around whether to bail out banks, but rather around the choice of which banks to rescue and the means for doing so. If a rescue is handled skillfully, the...
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Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Malaria Prevention Experiment
Cohen, Jessica - 2008
.75 (i.e. from 100 to 87.5 percent subsidy), the price at which ITNs are currently sold to pregnant women in Kenya. We …
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Taxing and Subsidizing Housing Investment : The Rise and Fall of Housing's Favored Status
Hendershott, Patric H. - 2015
This paper surveys and interprets a wide body of literature on the taxation and subsidization of investment in owner-occupied and rental housing. Where available, the study considers experiences outside of the United States. Issues addressed include what nonneutral taxation is, how...
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