Incentive Productions

The changing climate of cooperative federalism: the dynamic role of the states in a national strategy to combat climate change.
UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy; 12/22/2009; 12882 words; ...Emissions of Greenhouse Gases Across States Create Uneven Incentives, Responsibilities and Opportunities Across States C. State...trade system, requiring certain amounts of renewable energy production, encouraging energy efficiency, or some other method. This...

Rockets and feathers: understanding asymmetric pricing.
RAND Journal of Economics; 12/22/2009; 5680 words; ...for any given level of production costs, firms' optimal...observe the firms' current production cost. I introduce uncertainty over production costs in a nonsequential...drops, firms have little incentive to lower their prices because...

Efficiency out of disorder: contested ownership in incomplete contracts.
RAND Journal of Economics; 12/22/2009; 7092 words; ...disputes affects the players' incentive to make transaction-specific...transaction are negotiated before production takes place. Production involves the use of physical...players stronger or weaker incentives to make transaction-specific...may give players a stronger incentive to make ...

VAT attack: will the democrats enact a new kind of tax to pay for their bender?(value-added tax)
National Review; 12/21/2009; 2351 words; ...than we do without leaving their citizens with smaller incentives to save and invest. They have done it by relying on value...reduce tax payments. A VAT is levied at each stage of production, with credits given for the taxes paid at previous stages...harder on consumption the day after tomorrow. It creates an ...

GE Invests $117 Million in EDP Renewables' Oklahoma Wind Farm and Additional $111 Million in Established Wind Farm Portfolio.
Resource Week; 12/20/2009; 1514 words; ...This highly productive, utility-scale wind farm receives a production tax credit, an income tax credit for each kilowatt-hour...help us in continuing our growth and efficiently realizing incentives provided by the United States government," said Gabriel...