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, the two policy approaches have different welfare effects, depending on the design of the instrument (ad valorem versus …
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damaging subsidies is lacking. Environmentally damaging subsidies are all kinds of direct and indirect subsidies aimed at … article develops a transparent method to determine the environmental impact of indirect government subsidies and derive policy … lessons. This method has been applied to several major subsidies in the Netherlands, namely in agriculture, energy, and …
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Endogenous firm location is analyzed in a discrete two-region-two-firm model of product differentiation. In a non-cooperative game, two regional governments first decide on the imposition (or lifting) of domestic production standards; firms then choose technology (clean or polluting), location...
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Using a duopoly model of a patent race, it is shown that a stricter environmental policy might increase the probability of a sleeping patent instead of encouraging environmental technological progress. Two scenarios are discussed. The first concerns the regulation of a firm that competes with a...
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Many countries around the world either tax agriculture or provide subsidies through trade and agricultural policies …
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extraction choices under emission taxes, subsidies on renewable resources and abatement costs. We assume that non …-renewable to renewable resources is characterized. Numerical applications show that an increase in emission taxes, abatement costs …
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monopolistically competitive firms and through them on unemployment, inflation and welfare? Second, how are labour taxes and … taxes and redistribution so as to maximize a combination of social welfare and of benefits to particular constituencies … institutions in the presence of unionized labour markets on economic outcomes and welfare in the long run. Two main classes of …
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growing class of place-based policies attempts to address these differences through public investments and subsidies that … characterize the welfare effects of place-based policies on the local and the national economy. Using this model, we critically …
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class of "place based" policies attempt to address these differences through public investments and subsidies that target … characterize the welfare effects of place based policies on the local and the national economy. Using this model, we critically …
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This paper focuses on the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It is shown that only for single persons and only in a...
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