The article reveals the essence and substantive features of such a financial instrument as green bonds, purpose which is to attract funds for financing projects, highlights objective perquisites need initiate develop bond market in Ukraine, well current legal status this type debt securities. Attention paid category “green financing”, constituent element considered be particular, form mobilizin...

China is the biggest coal country. However, China's power industry relies heavily on fossil energy, which seriously threatens energy security. It unreasonable to use current price as a benchmark for parity. At present has not accounted various emissions tax and resource tax. so authentic parity must be fully included in costs environmental costs. Fair pricing primary prerequisite Nowadays obsta...

OBJECTIVES This paper investigates sociodemographic and family structure factors that predict men's involvement (n = 773) in different gendered dimensions of filial caregiving: traditionally male, gender neutral, and traditionally female care. METHODS The concepts that guide this research relate to family obligations or motivations to provide care, specifically, commitment to care, legitimate...

Can Taxes Stabilize the Economy in the Presence of Consumption Externalities? Considering a finance constrained economy, we discuss the stabilization role of variable labour and capital income taxes under a balanced-budget rule in the presence of consumption externalities of the “keeping up with the Joneses” type. We find that sufficiently procyclical labor and/or capital income taxes are able ...

Introduction The role of education in local, state and national economic development has become a central public policy issue in recent years. Rural localities, in particular, which typically have lower education levels among the adult population than urban areas, view increased educational investments as an important component of an economic development strategy. At the same time, rural commun...

This paper examines a firm’s investment intensity and timing decisions using a real options approach. The firm is endowed with a perpetual option to invest in a project at any time by incurring an irreversible investment cost at that instant. The amount of the irreversible investment cost determines the intensity of investment with decreasing returns to scale. The project generates a stream of ...

This paper studies the effects of effluent taxes on firms’ allocation of resources to cost-reducing and emission-reducing R&D, and on entrepreneurs’ decisions to develop new goods and enter the market. A tax set at an exogenous rate that does not depend on the state of technology reduces growth, the level of consumption of each good, and raises the number of firms. The induced increase in the v...

abstract tax is one of the main sources of financing government budget. therefore, having a clear picture about the attainable amount of taxes are not only necessary for optimal allocation of scarce resources for tax collection, but also helps the government to develop precise tax collection programs .in this article, the structural features of the tax revenues series have first been examined i...

the aim of this study is to review the rentier state theory, with special regard to iran. iran’s rentier state is highly dependent on oil revenues, but much less on tax revenues. even this negligible reliance on tax revenues, itself seems to be indebted to oil revenues. thus the main research hypothesis is that iran’s oil revenue is one of the main determinants of tax revenues. to empirically t...