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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková, Michiel van Dijk, Robert M'Barek, Hans van Meijl, Tomas Ratinger   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Different Types of Alcohol Tax and Minimum Pricing Policies: An Evidence and Policy Review

Addicta: The Turkish Journal on Addictions
To This article presents the best available evidence regarding types of alcohol taxation and alcohol pricing policies and their effectiveness in reducing alcohol harm, by reviewing scholarly and grey literature.
Jem Roberts, Katherine Severi, Peter Rice   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optimal Income Taxation, Public Goods Provision and Robust Mechanism Design [PDF]

This paper extends the model of optimal income taxation due to Mirrlees (1971) and includes private information on public goods preferences. A mechanism design approach is used to establish the following result: If policies are required to be robustly ...
Felix Bierbrauer
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Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross, Wesley M. Zebrowski, Julia C. D. Valliant   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Redistributive Taxation, Public Expenditure, and Size of Governent [PDF]

We introduce a model of redistributive income taxation and public expenditure. This joint treatment permits analyzing the interdependencies between the two policies: one cannot be chosen independently of the other.
Joan Esteban, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
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Coping With Production Risk: Effects of Sown Plant Diversity on the Attractiveness of Crop Insurance in Grasslands

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou, Sergei Schaub, Martin Quaas, Robert Finger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in the taxation of personal and corporate income in developed countries

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2012
Over the past ten years, the tax policies have responded in two stages: for the period of a swift economic growth by 2008, and during the rapid economic recession over the period of 2009–2010.
Leoš Vítek
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The Biofuels Blueprint: Understanding the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We provide a comprehensive review of the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), synthesizing nearly two decades of program evolution, market outcomes, and economic analysis. The RFS mandates minimum volumes of renewable fuel blending through a nested structure based on life‐cycle greenhouse gas reductions, enforced via tradeable Renewable ...
Maria Gerveni, Todd Hubbs, Scott H. Irwin, James H. Stock   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coordinating Climate and Trade Policies: Pareto Efficiency and the Role of Border Tax Adjustments [PDF]

This paper explores the role of trade instruments in globally efficient climate policies, focusing on the central issue of whether border tax adjustment (BTA) is warranted when carbon prices differ internationally.
Christos Kotsogiannis, Michael Keen
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Taxation and the life cycle of firms

Journal of Monetary Economics, 2019
The Hopenhayn and Rogerson (1993) framework is extended to understand how different forms of taxing capital income affect firms’ investment and financial policies over their life cycle. Corporate income taxation slows down firm growth over the life cycle
A. Erosa, Beatriz González
semanticscholar   +1 more source