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Environmental tax reform in a federation with rent-induced migration
Garon, Jean-Denis; Séguin, Charles - 2015
We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...
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Estimating the external returns to education : evidence from China
Fan, Wen; Ma, Yuanyuan; Wang, Liming - 2015
education in China appear to be zero. We estimate an instrumental variables fixed effects model where share of college graduates … is instrumented by the number of universities with special status and find positive external returns to education of … rural, men, and low-educated workers. This finding provides the motivation for increasing education investment in rural …
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External monitors and score manipulation in italian schools : symptomatic treatment or cure?
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; De Benedetto, Marco … - 2019
We use the repeated random assignment of external examiners to school institutes in Italy to investigate whether the effect of external monitoring on test score manipulation persists over time. We find that this effect is still present in the tests taken one year after exposure to the examiners,...
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Abatement innovation in a cournot oligopoly : emission versus output tax incentives
Aoyama, Naoto; Silva, Emilson C. D. - 2016
This study compares energy and emission taxes used to control pollution and provide incentives for the adoption of an advanced abatement technology in a Cournot oligopoly. We examine multistage games where the government may intervene in order to maximize social welfare by setting an...
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Values for environments with externalities : the average approach
Macho-Stadler, Inés; Pérez-Castrillo, J. David; … - 2016
We propose the "average approach," where the worth of a coalition is a weighted average of its worth for different partitions of the players' set, as a unifying method to extend values for characteristic function form games. Our method allows us to extend the equal division value, the equal...
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Disposal of petroleum installations : major policy issues
Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar - 2000
Following the Brent Spar controversy, the OSPAR countries reached a unanimous agreement in 1998 for the future rules for disposal of petroleum installations. The vast majority of existing offshore installations will be re-used or returned to shore for recycling or disposal. For installations...
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Pareto-improving intergenerational transfers
Wigger, Berthold U. - 2000
growth and harm future generations. On the other hand, competitive equilibria are inefficient if externalities sustain long …
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Designing fiscal policy to address the external costs of energy
Parry, Ian W. H. - 2014
externalities associated with energy use-global warming, local air pollution, and various side effects (e.g., congestion) from motor … vehicles. Techniques for (roughly) estimating the magnitude of these externalities, and corrective energy taxes, on a country …
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The cost of binge drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2015
-term externalities of binge drinking. We find that these externalities are on average $4.9 billion per year ($7 billion), about $80 for …
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The effectiveness of taxation and feed-in tariffs
Antoniou, Fabio; Strausz, Roland - 2014
We study (energy) markets with dirty incumbents and costly entry by clean producers. For intermediate entry costs, the market outcome exhibits inefficient production and inefficient entry. A policy mix of three popular regulatory instruments-taxation on polluters, feed-in tariffs for clean...
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