the study examines the effects of awareness of fertilizer subsidy on the yield of crops among rural farmers in ghana. random sampling was used to select six communities and 10 households per community. they include bawku, navrongo, tolon kumbungu and walewale from the northern part and ejura and atebubu in the southern part of ghana. primary data were collected from the sampled household by adm...

This paper analyzes the responses of profit maximizing groundwater users to modifications (elimination, reduction, decoupling) of the subsidy to electricity frequently used for water pumping. It proposes a theoretical model, and numerically derives general results for a simplified case with homogeneous users. The model is applied to aquifers in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico and in Kern County, Calif...

This paper examines how changes in major elements of the U.S. federal crop insurance program affect the structure of the agricultural insurance industry. We model interactions between farmers, insurance agents and insurance companies. Marginal changes in government policy (premium subsidy rate, A&O subsidy rate, and loading factor) affect the insurance premium rate, agent compensation rates, ag...

In this paper, we examine the welfare properties of strategic fragmentation under production subsidies. We first consider a case in which a production subsidy rate is given exogenously. We show that, under the fixed subsidy policy, firms choose fragmentation despite the domestic production being socially desirable. Next, we examine a situation in which the government chooses a production subsid...

A rebate subsidy of rate s is functionally equivalent to a matching subsidy of rate r s 5 s /(12 s ). Other things equal, an individual should respond identically to the two m r r subsidies. We test the effect on charitable giving of the framing of a subsidy as a rebate or as a match. Subjects make a series of ‘dictator’ allocation decisions, dividing an endowment between themselves and their c...

We analyze the efficient subsidy for durable good technologies. We theoretically demonstrate that a policymaker faces a tension between intertemporally price discriminating by designing a subsidy that increases over time and taking advantage of future technological progress by designing a subsidy that decreases over time. Using new empirical estimates of household preferences for residential so...

among the agricultural important factors, inputs are the most significant in agricultural production. this article aimed to examine the impact of government subsidy policies on production of one of the most strategic products, namely on production of one of the most strategic products, namely maize, in iran. to achieve this goal, panel data for the nine provinces of iran's major producers of ma...

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 investigates the adoption level of a network service where the net utility perceived by each user incorporates three key features, namely, user service affinity heterogeneity, a network externality, and a subscription cost. Services with network externality face a “chicken and egg” adoption problem in that the service requires customers in order to attract customers. In this paper we...