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Assessing Temporary Product-Specific Subsidies : A Time Series Intervention Analysis
Leuwer, David - 2018
installation of a “cash for clunkers” subsidy by the German government in 2009 to assess implied disruptions in the German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919055
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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country : An Optimal Taxation Problem with Moral Hazard
Cigno, Alessandro - 2010
Given that credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given also that intra-household transfers, and much of the work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education awards, together with a mix of taxes on parental income,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142234
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Lobbying for Education in a Two-Sector Model
Di Gioacchino, Debora - 2011
In a two-period model, firms specialized in two different sectors lobby to induce the government to subsidize the type of education complementary to their production. Lobbying is endogenous. We show that, if lobbying is not costly, both sectors will lobby in equilibrium and education policy will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125068
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A Commitment Theory of Subsidy Agreements
Brou, Daniel - 2012
framework that emphasizes commitment. We build a model where the policy-maker has a tariff and a production subsidy at its … the policy substitution problem. Finally, we employ the theory to analyze the Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100012
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Long-Term Care Policy, Myopia and Redistribution
Cremer, Helmuth - 2012
subsidy on private LTC insurance. Interestingly, savings (which goes untaxed in the first-best but plays the role of self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104574
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The Role of Carbon Capture and Sequestration Policies for Climate Change Mitigation
Kalkuhl, Matthias - 2012
subsidy can be as efficient as a carbon tax. Within a numerical dynamic general equilibrium model, we analyze CCS and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105137
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Learning or Lock-In : Optimal Technology Policies to Support Mitigation
Kalkuhl, Matthias - 2014
We investigate conditions that aggravate market failures in energy innovations, and suggest optimal policy instruments to address them. Using an intertemporal general equilibrium model we show that “small” market imperfections may trigger a several decades lasting dominance of an incumbent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068144
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Subsidizing Renewable Energy Under Capital Mobility
Eichner, Thomas - 2014
outflow to other countries. When the green subsidy is available, countries choose a positive subsidy rate since this reduces … the overall distortion of the tax-subsidy system. In doing so, each country internalizes a larger part of the …. Hence, the subsidy is not only beneficial for the country which imposes it but for all countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069215
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Green Paradox and Directed Technical Change : The Effect of Subsidies to Clean R&D
Daubanes, Julien - 2014
We borrow standard assumptions from the non-renewable-resource-taxation and from the directed-technical-change literatures, to take a full account of the incentives to perform R&D activities in a dirty-resource sector and in a clean-resource-substitute sector. We show that a gradual rise in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063394
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Efficiency Enhancing Taxation in Two-Sided Markets
Kind, Hans Jarle - 2008
imposing negative value-added taxes (subsidy) or positive specific taxes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772273