For two decades, the Thai government has been promoting ethanol and biodiesel consumption through tax measures price subsidies. Although this policy substantially increased production of biofuels, there is concern regarding its future fiscal burden. Due to constraints, planned completely terminate biofuel subsidy by 2022. This study aims at examining economy-wide impacts removing also conductin...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the evaluation of local government Web sites carrying information on infertility by infertile women and by government staff. In particular, the study investigated whether the women and staff differed with respect to the information they rate as important and their self-reported satisfaction with the Web sites. DESIGN AND SAMPLE Cross-sectional descriptive study. Sixty...

The extant literature on fat taxes and thin subsidies tends to focus on the overall e ectiveness of such scal instruments in altering diets and improving health. However, little is known about the welfare impacts of scal food policies on society. This paper lls a gap in the literature by assessing the distributional impacts and welfare e ects resulting from a tax-subsidy combination on di erent...

We analyze a fuel automobile (FA) supply chain and an electric-and-fuel automobile (EA-FA) supply chain in a duopoly setting, under a government’s subsidy incentive scheme that is implemented to promote the electric automobile (EA) for the control of air pollution. Benefiting from such a scheme, each EA consumer can enjoy a subsidy from the government. We show that the incentive scheme is more ...

In a recent paper Hensher and Houghton (2003) presented a formal economic framework for establishing an incentive-based performance contract regime to determine value for money in subsidy support for the provision of bus services. An important feature of the performance-based contract (PBC) regime is a passenger tripbased incentive payment scheme linked to user and environmental externality ben...

Most studies of input subsidy programmes confine their analyses to measuring programme effects over a one-year period. This article estimates the potential longer-run or enduring effects of fertiliser subsidy programmes on smallholder farm households' demand for commercial fertiliser and maize production over time. We use four waves of panel data on 462 farm households in Malawi for whom fertil...

Initial reports about the new COBRA premium subsidy program for recently laid-off workers indicate that enrollment in COBRA continuation coverage has increased substantially, with a healthier mix of individuals enrolling than before. Moreover, implementation has gone smoothly, and most eligible people have heard about the subsidy. Still, many of those who are eligible cannot afford to purchase ...

Background Using Section 8 project-based rental assistance contracts, HUD contracts with for-profit owners of private multifamily housing, who in turn make specific rental properties available to qualified low-income households. Typically, the subsidy will pay the difference between 30 percent of the household’s income and the contract rent; this subsidy is paid by HUD to the landlord. Approxim...

r. N Between 1970 and 1978, industrial subsidies in Sweden rose from 4.9 96 to 16 96 of value added in mining and manufacturing. Most of this increase was due to increased wage subsidies to specific firms facing acute difficulties. The Swedish industriai subsidy program seems to be both larger in relation to industrial output and more selective than similar programs in Great Britain, Italy, Nor...

In this paper, we simulate the effects of tax reforms aimed at encouraging healthier grain consumption. We use a rich data set on household grain consumption in 2003 from the market research institute GfK Sweden, combined with information on the nutritional content of the consumption. We estimate behavioral parameters, which are used to simulate the impact on the average household of tax reform...