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Where Does Energy R&D Come From? Examining Crowding Out from Environmentally-Friendly R&D

Popp, David - 2009

Recent efforts to endogenize technological change in climate policy models demonstrate the importance of accounting for the opportunity cost of climate R&D investments. Because the social returns to R&D investments are typically higher than the social returns to other types of investment, any...

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Environmental Tax Interactions When Pollution Affects Health or Productivity

Williams, Roberton C. - 2000

Numerous recent studies have indicated that interactions with a tax-distorted labor market increase the cost of pollution regulation. However, these studies have made restrictive assumptions regarding individual preferences and have ignored key links between pollution, human health, and labor...

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Consumption Externalities and Diffusion in Pharmaceutical Markets : Antiulcer Drugs

Berndt, Ernst R. - 2000

We examine the role of consumption externalities in the demand for pharmaceuticals at both the brand level and over a … equations describing the dynamic adjustment process. We find that consumption externalities influence both valuations and rates …

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Tax Externalities of Equity Mutual Funds

Shoven, John B. - 2000

capital gain position of the fund. This paper's simulations show that these externalities are important determinants of the …

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Preference Externalities : An Empirical Study of Who Benefits Whom in Differentiated Product Markets

Waldfogel, Joel - 1999

externalities', an increase in the size of the market brings forth additional products valued by others with similar tastes. But who … benefits whom? We examine the patterns of and mechanisms for preference externalities between black and white and between … preference externalities are large and positive within groups, they are small and possibly negative across groups. For example …

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The Environmental Regime in Developing Countries

Jha, Raghbendra - 1999

This paper discusses the environmental externalities that are commonly found in the developing world (the environmental …

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Vertical Externalities in Tax Setting : Evidence from Gasoline and Cigarettes

Besley, Timothy J. - 1999

A common feature of federal systems is that tax bases are joint property. Consequently, state and federal tax setting decisions are interdependent. Our aim here is to put forward a rudimentary theoretical analysis of this phenomenon, and to use the theory as a framework for econometrically...

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Coveting Thy Neighbor's Manuafacturing : The Dilemma of State Income Apportionment

Goolsbee, Austan - 1998

externalities on other states in that the effects of the apportionment formula on aggregate employment is zero. Every job gained …

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Did Unilateral Divorce Raise Divorce Rates? Evidence from Panel Data

Friedberg, Leora - 1998

This paper revisits the evidence on the impact of unilateral divorce laws on divorce rates in the United States. Most states switched from requiring mutual consent to allowing unilateral or no-fault divorce between 1970 and 1985, while the national divorce rate more than doubled after 1965....

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The Case for a Two-Part Instrument : Presumptive Tax and Environmental Subsidy

Fullerton, Don - 1997

This paper builds two simple general equilibrium models to demonstrate the equivalence between the Pigovian tax and the combination of a presumptive tax and an environmental subsidy. A presumptive tax is a tax that is imposed under the presumption that all production uses a dirty technology or...

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