This paper presents an expert evaluation of the subsidy scheme for private forest plantations in Kami City, Kochi Prefecture, Japan, to determine whether the twelve currently available subsidies are designed to realize national biodiversity goals. Subsidies for forestry practices are often criticized for rarely achieving planned outcomes and for environmental threats. Threats to natural balance...

This paper applies the analytical tools of optimal taxation theory to the design of the optimal subsidy on preventive behaviours, in an economy where longevity varies across agents, and depends on preventive expenditures and on longevity genes. Public intervention can be here justified on three grounds: corrections for misperceptions of the survival process and for externalities related to indi...

This paper adopts trans-log production function based on the SFA model, empirically test how the change of the proportion of the value added tax impacts on each part of China’s productivity. The results show: that, in tax structure, if the proportion of the value added tax is higher, the more conducive to the improvement of production efficiency. But it is not good for the technical efficiency ...

This article determines the possibility of ejaculation bare seeds from working chamber genie using auxiliary ejaculatory devices. Based on theoretical and experimental studies, results were obtained to improve quality fiber, gin productivity in allocation chamber. a full-factor experiment, graphs constructed time spent exposed productivity, number revolutions vas differencing devices seeds.

The Industrial Research Promotion Fund (Forschungsförderungsfond, FFF) is Austria’s most important source of finance funding R&D projects carried out by business enterprises. However, the decision on the level of R&D subsidies will be affected by both the funding agency's objectives and firm characteristics. This paper analyzes the factor explaining the intensity of R&D subsidies as well as the...

This paper argues that observed long lags in innovation implementation rationalize Schumpeter’s statement that “wave-like fluctuations in business ... are the form economic development takes in the era of capitalism.” Adding implementation delays to an otherwise standard endogenous growth model with expanding product variety, the equilibrium path admits a Hopf bifurcation where consumption, R&D...