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Investment In Energy Infrastructure And The Tax Code, Gilbert E. Metcalf

Gilbert E. Metcalf

Federal tax policy provides a broad array of incentives for energy investment. I review those policies and construct estimates of marginal effective tax rates for different energy capital investments as of 2007. Effective tax rates vary widely across investment classes. I then consider investment in wind generation capital and regress investment against a user cost of capital measure along with other controls. I find that wind investment is strongly responsive to changes in tax policy. Based on the coefficient estimates the elasticity of investment with respect to the user cost of capital is in the range of -1 to -2. …

Market-Based Policy Options To Control U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Gilbert E. Metcalf

Gilbert E. Metcalf

The United States is moving closer to enacting a policy to reduce domestic emissions of greenhouse gases. A key element in any plan to reduce emissions will be to place a price on greenhouse gas emissions. This paper discusses the different approaches that can be taken to price emissions and assesses their strengths and weaknesses.

Cost Containment In Climate Change Policy: Alternative Approaches To Mitigating Price Volatility, Gilbert E. Metcalf

Gilbert E. Metcalf

Cap and trade systems are emerging as the front-running policy choice to address climate change concerns in many countries. One of the apparent attractions of this approach is the ability to achieve hard limits on emissions over a control period. The cost of achieving this certainty on emission limits is price volatility. I discuss and evaluate various approaches within cap and trade systems to reduce price volatility. A fundamental trade-off exists between certainty of emission limits and price volatility. A pure carbon tax sacrifices certainty of emission limits in favor of price stability. I discuss how a hybrid carbon tax …

The Politics Of Health Care Reform: How Political Interests And Preferences Shape Political Strategy, Amy M. Mckay, Jennifer Hayes Clark

Jennifer Hayes Clark

No abstract provided.

Indonesia As An Archipelago: Managing Islands, Managing The Seas, Robert Cribb, Michele Ford

Robert Cribb

Indonesia's archipelagic character shapes its identity.

Reduplication, Ideophones, And Onomatoepoeic Repetition In The Yanomami Languages, Gale Goodwin Gomez

Gale Goodwin Gomez

The morphological process of reduplication occurs throughout the Yanomami languages of northern Amazonia. Onomatopoeia and the repetition of morphemes of apparent ideophonic origin are also common in the four major subgroups of the Yanomami language family: Yanomami, Yanomae, Sanuma, and Yanam. Reduplication has been specifically mentioned in grammatical descriptions of Yanomami (Ramirez 1994), Sanuma (Borgman 1990) and Yanam (Gómez 1990). Documentation of the Yanomami languages is ongoing, and grammatical descriptions are incomplete. Nevertheless, data from a thematic lexicon of Yanomae (Albert and Gómez, in prep.) highlights the frequent repetition of onomatopoeic forms, especially in relation to body movements, bodily functions, …

A Means To An End – A Web-Based Client Management System In Palliative Care, Margaret O'Connor, Trudi Erwin, Linda Dawson

Associate Professor Linda Dawson

Home-based palliative care (hospice) services require comprehensive and fully integrated information systems to develop and manage the various aspects of their business, incorporating client data and management information. These systems assist in maintaining the quality of client care as well as improved management effi ciencies. This article reports on a large not-for-profi t home-based palliative care service in Australia, which embarked on a project to develop an electronic data management system specifi cally designed to meet the needs of the palliative care sector. This web-based client information management system represents a joint venture between the organization and a commercial company …

Introduction, Aubrey W. Bonnett

Aubrey W. Bonnett

No abstract provided.

Treatment Uncertainty And Irreversibility In Medical Care: Implications For Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Joshua Graff Zivin, Matthew Neidell, Lauri Feldman

Joshua Graff Zivin

No abstract provided.

A Public Choice Framework For Controlling Transmissable And Evolving Diseases, Ted C. Bergstrom, Carl T. Bergstrom, Ben Althouse

Ted C Bergstrom

Control measures used to limit the spread of infectious disease often generate externalities. Vaccination for transmissible diseases can re- duce the incidence of disease even among the unvaccinated, whereas antimicrobial chemotherapy can lead to the evolution of antimicro- bial resistance and thereby limit its own e#11;ectiveness over time. We integrate the economic theory of public choice with mathematical models of infectious disease to provide quantitative framework for making allocation decisions in the presence of these externalities. To illustrate, we present a series of examples: vaccination for tetanus, vaccination for measles, antibiotic treatment of otitis media, and antiviral treatment of pandemic …

The Pro-Active Academic Librarian: The How And The Why -Illustrated By Case Studies From India And Canada, Kishor Chandra Satpathy, Phd

Kishor Chandra Satpathy, PhD

No abstract provided.

Democracia Local Amenazada: Elecciones Y Conflicto En El Norte Del Cauca, Alexander Montoya Prada

Alexander Montoya Prada

Este artículo intenta indagar el impacto del conflicto armado y la economía ilegal en el proceso electoral de julio y octubre de 2007, así como su incidencia en las dinámicas políticas locales en los trece municipios objeto de estudio. Para hacerlo examina algunos elementos demográficos, económicos, y de gestión que caracterizan la subregión, así como las dinámicas del conflicto y la seguridad. Finalmente, el escrito hace una aproximación a las elecciones de 2007 comparándolas con lo sucedido en los comicios de 2000 y de 2003.

Populist Radical Right Parties In Europe Redux, Cas Mudde

Cas Mudde

No abstract provided.

Public Sphere 2.0 Is Here, Michael A. De Percy

Dr Michael A de Percy

Public Sphere 2.0 works. It provides an opportunity for policy-makers to harness the knowledge and experience of citizens so that 'the public interest' actually reflects 'the public' and not just 'the interests'.

Communication Skills For Success: Tourism Industry Specific Guidelines, Babu P. George

Babu George

No abstract provided.

Tributação & Desenvolvimento, Ivo T. Gico

Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr.

Editorial sobre o papel da tributação no desenvolvimento econômico.

Visual Timeline Of A Librarian's Life: Understanding The Themes, Opportunities, And Challenges Of The Stages In A Career In Library And Information Studies, R A. Stoddart

Rick A Stoddart

Rupert Hay And Kurdistan, Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

Among my Middle East contributions have been editions of classic texts, many relating to the British era in the Middle East. I have nursed into print no less than three editions of Rupert Hay's Two Years in Kurdistan, and this piece is the introduction to the latest edition. I count myself lucky that I have worked on the Middle East rather than some less significant area, as it has certainly kept some of my work in print.

The Merits Of Secrecy, Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

This is one of the talks which I give on occasion to a lodge, and often it is delivered after an initiation. It addresses the problem of secrecy, which in a free society is both a right and a difficulty. Undoubtedly one of the public relations hurtles for Freemasonry is its perception as a covert group.

Masonic Vocabulary, Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

This is another of my talks that I frequently give to a lodge. Since the aim is participation, I generally start with a short little potted history of Masonic dictionaries and vocabulary, and then invite the audience to put forward words from the ritual for discussion -- "cowan" is one that always can launch things.

Creating The Arabian Gulf - Jacket, Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

The design of the cover for the newest edition of Creating the Arabian Gulf really surprised me, as the publisher found an illustration of Arab youths with oranges -- in the book I mention an incident during British days where a Qatari lad was beaten for stealing an orange, an illustration of the rags to riches life of the Gulf Arabs. That there would be such an apt picture still amazes me.

Eugenia Perez, Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

Eugenia Perez is a supremely gifted Mexican artist. I have had the privilege of providing the introductions to some works about her. She has had several marked periods, including a remarkable one where her work to me suggested that of the very distinctive early Peruvian Viceregal school and a later phase when her experiments with color have been startling.

Do I Think Policy Research Helps The World?, Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

Does the work done by policy scholars have any real effect on the world? Are academics relevant? Do I think all this work is useful?

More About The Apron That Wasn't, Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

The Times, both in Scotland and London, had a real field day with the story of how I along with others felt the Masonic apron of Robert Burns wasn't the Bard's. It isn't often that an academic paper gets on the front page of the Times, so I certainly relished the whole incident.

The Lost Secret, Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

This is taken from my study of Freemasonry viz Dan Brown's The Lost Secret

The Mexican Viceroy's French Cooks: Masonic Mysteries In The Palace Kitchens, Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

The hitherto obscure eighteenth-century history of Freemasonry in Mexico is illuminated by the records of the Roman Catholic Inquisition, whose courts were active in torturing, trying, and punishing anyone suspected of Masonic activity. The Viceroy himself was not exempt from inquiry, and on a couple of occasions his French employees in his palace in Mexico City fell prey to the tribunal.

Robert Burns's Apron (Power Point Presentation), Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

No abstract provided.

The Allocation Of Permits In U.S. Climate Change Legislation, Don Fullerton, Daniel Karney

Don Fullerton

Don Fullerton and Daniel Karney of the University of Illinois take a hard look at the allocation of CO2 emissions permits under the Waxman-Markey bill and give it minimally passing marks.

Distributional Effects Of Environmental And Energy Policy: An Introduction, Don Fullerton

Don Fullerton

This chapter reviews literature on the distributional effects of environmental and energy policy. In particular, many effects of such policy are likely regressive. First, it raises the price of fossil-fuel-intensive products, expenditures on which are a high fraction of low-income budgets. Second, if abatement technologies are capital-intensive, then any mandate to abate pollution may induce firms to use more capital. If demand for capital is raised relative to labor, then a lower relative wage may also hurt low-income households. Third, pollution permits handed out to firms bestow scarcity rents on well-off individuals who own those firms. Fourth, low-income individuals may …

Is Social Security Part Of The Social Safety Net?, Jeffrey R. Brown, Julia Lynn Coronado, Don Fullerton

Don Fullerton

Building on the existing literature that examines the extent of redistribution in the Social Security system as a whole, this paper focuses more specifically on how Social Security affects the poor. This question is important because a Social Security program that reduces overall inequality by redistributing from high income individuals to middle income individuals may do nothing to help the poor; conversely, a program that redistributes to the poor may nonetheless be regressive according to broader measures if it also redistributes from middle to upper income households. We have four major findings. First, as we expand the definition of income …