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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"subsidy policy"”.
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Optimal subsidy policy to promote building energy efficiency under uncertainty : the case for architectural design subsidies
The goal of this thesis is to examine the relative cost-effectiveness of subsidies in incentivizing energy efficiency investment using a real option framework. I generalize a model of a sequential investment project involving two stages, design and construction stage, and investment lags and …
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Child Care Subsidy Policy After the 1996 Federal Welfare Reform: A Case Study of State Policy Formation in Illinois
… given new responsibility for creating child care subsidy (CCS) policy. This study examines the CCS policy-formation process in Illinois, analyzing the influence of several key factors on this process using an analytic framework developed by the National Research Council (NRC) (Hayes, 1982). …
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Evaluating social welfare implications of forestry policies when economic and environmental values matter in a British Columbia context
… provincial government as the resource owner and policy-maker. Rotation time and silvicultural investment decisions are the firm’s main inputs while revenue, government expenditure, and the values of carbon sequestered and biodiversity accumulated are the components of the social welfare function. …
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Costs and benefits of electricity subsidies in Uganda
… to ascertain the equitability of the electricity subsidy policy. Information and data was gathered from secondary sources in Uganda on electricity subsidies, industrial output and revenues during the period 2005 to 2012. For an empirical investigation of the costs and benefits of electricity …
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Three essays on the role of amenities as an economic development strategy
… an analysis using a local government’s public policy along with an areas’ physical attributes, I find government tax policy having the greatest effect on film location decisions with natural amenities having little impact. The third essay analyzed the impact of a tax incentive program targeted …
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A policy for the (jobless) youth: the employment tax incentive
… Tax Incentive (ETI) is a first of its kind wage subsidy policy in South Africa. Designed to tackle the problem of youth unemployment, the ETI differs from previous policies as it aims to address unemployment through stimulating job creation. Youth unemployment has remained above 40 percent in the …
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Essays in Environmental Economics
… considers how spatial targeting of environmental policy trades off economic development and environmental surplus. In Chapter 1, I quantify global inefficient and spatially misallocated agricultural deforestation: carbon emissions-intensive deforestation on land with low agricultural yields. I …
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Skill composition, firm innovation and economic performance: Three essays
… an ex-ante evaluation of a proportional R&D subsidy policy and quantify the increase in R&D investment rates and productivity following a reduction in the cost of R&D. These findings apply to innovation-fostering policies concerning skill demand, market competition and R&D incentives.
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Three Essays in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
… on environmental outcomes and design of policy instruments. The first essay examines how the rate of agricultural land expansion in tropical countries depends on the nature and persistence of new political regimes. We use a novel panel data method that extends previous studies. We find …
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Stimulating technical innovation by small and medium-sized enterprises in China
… estimations to study the impact of the 2011 tax policy changes in China and the 2012 patent subsidy policy change in Shanghai on the innovation, market performance and patenting behaviors of the 140 SMEs. Zhongguan-Cun Science Park and Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park are two national model technical …
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Essays on the Economics of Higher Education
… of important social behaviors. Second, it helps policymakers anticipate the responses of students when evaluating various policy reforms.</p><p>While research on the higher education investment decisions of students has had an enormous impact on our understanding of society and has shaped …