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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Welfare cost"”.
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The welfare cost and greenhouse gas emissions effects of sector-specific energy policies
… policies on greenhouse gas reduction and welfare costs for the electricity, transportation, and agricultural sectors relative to levels that would have been achieved by each of these policies individually. Joint implementation of the RFS and the RPSs can increase the cost of …
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Tax expenditure and tax prices
… literature. Some authors have emphasized the welfare costs of tax expenditures. To the extent that tax expenditures narrow the tax base the introduction or extension of a tax expenditure undoubtedly makes the cost of raising revenue more than it would be otherwise. This kind of cost, denoted …
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Three Essays on Money and Asset Pricing
… In the third paper, I estimate the welfare cost of inflation in Korea. Depending on the estimation methods and periods, the welfare cost from 10 percent annual inflation is estimated to be about 0.5 percent of GDP for the period of 1970.1q-1996.4q and 1.1-1.3 percent of GDP for the …
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Essays in Dynamic Economies
… essay studies the distributional as well as welfare implication of the inflation tax using a heterogeneous agents growth model that mimics some characteristics of the Brazilian economy. The key findings show that heterogeneity leads to a stronger welfare cost of inflation in terms of …
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Essays In Mortgage Markets And Public Investment Cycles
… power derived by lenders from mortgage search costs of borrowers in the US have a large welfare cost for a borrower and are important sources of refinancing inaction. The third chapter shows that a winner-take-all electoral system is better than a proportional system for economic …
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Distributional effects of the Mexican agricultural trade policies: The tomato case
The objective of this study was to analyze the welfare effects of Mexican tomato export policies. A voluntary import quota and production and export subsidies were used for the estimation of welfare impacts on Mexican consumers, producers and the government budget. Welfare effects were evaluated …
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Essays on political institutions and macroeconomics
… long run. A numerical exercise suggests that the welfare cost of political economy distortions is high if the government chooses suboptimal politically sustainable policies which do not respond persistently to shocks. This is because the government over-saves and resources are wasted on rents. …
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Essays in development economics
… compact shape being a consumption amenity. The welfare cost of deteriorating city shape is estimated to be sizeable. The effects of unfavorable topography appear to be exacerbated by building height restrictions, and mitigated by infrastructure. The second chapter examines the human capital …
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Essays on Pension Policies and Temptation Preferences
… but introducing a non-linear test can reduce the welfare cost to lower and middle-income earners. The thesis then considers pension policies in the context of a population with Gul-Pesendorfer style self-control preferences, in which households experience temptation to over-consume in the near …
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Essays in asset prices and macroeconomics
… to, the model generates a more significant welfare cost of the business cycle in comparison with standard DSGE models, which is an important feature when trying to replicate asset pricing behavior in a general equilibrium framework. The second chapter reviews the main methodologies that have …
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Essays on identification and semiparametric econometrics
… Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, analyzes the welfare cost of adverse selection in the U.K. annuity market. We develop a model of annuity contract choice and estimate it using data from the U.K. annuity market. The model allows for private information about mortality risk as well as …
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The future of natural gas in China : effects of pricing reform and climate policy
… a better resource allocation system and improve welfare of China. To assess natural gas scenarios up to 2050, I use the EPPA model, which is a global energy-economic model where China is represented as a separate region. Based on my updates to the EPPA model to represent China's energy system and …
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Assessing early investments in low carbon technologies under uncertainty : the case of Carbon Capture and Storage
… each of these technologies in the future. The costs of these technologies decrease due to learning-by-doing as their capacity is built out. Given that we face uncertainties over future energy demands for particular technologies, and that costs reduce with experience, an important question that …
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A dynamic analysis of U.S. biofuels policy impact on land use, greenhouse gas emissions and social welfare
… and fuel crops, food and fuel prices and social welfare. It first develops a stylized model of the food and fuel sectors linked by a limited land availability to produce food and fuel crops. It then analyzes the mechanisms through which biofuel mandates and subsidies affect consumer choices and …
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A study of factors that influence growth performance and carcass and meat quality of iberian pigs reared under intensive management systems : Estudio de los factores que influyen sobre la productividad y la calidad de la canal y la carne de cerdo Ibérico en intensivo
… not improve meat quality. Therefore, when animal welfare, cost of castration, productive performance and carcass and meat quality traits are considered, the use of intact females rather than castrated females is recommended for the production of Iberian pigs reared under intensive management …