De La Salle University

About: De La Salle University is a education organization based out in Manila, Philippines. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Computer science. The organization has 2951 authors who have published 4374 publications receiving 49567 citations. The organization is also known as: Pamantasang De La Salle.

Impact of subsidy policies on green products with consideration of consumer behaviors: Subsidy for firms or consumers?

Abstract: The subsidy policies have been being implemented as one of the instruments to leverage the uptake level of green products or technologies. However, the fact shows that the occupation level of such products or technologies is still far below expectations. In this study, we investigate two subsidy policies and their impacts on a market that comprises two vertically differentiated products: green and less green products. We consider two subsidy policies, namely, subsidy for firm and subsidy for consumer policies. Under the subsidy for firm policy, a regulator subsidizes the firm who produces greener products while under subsidy for consumer policy, the regulator subsidizes the consumers who buy greener products. We set the scope on consumers who exhibit the same characteristics such as preferences and green awareness level. We incorporate the reference-dependent preferences theory to derive consumers’ decisions on buying the green or less green products under the influence of each subsidy. Given our specific framework, the counter-intuitive theoretical result shows that subsidy for firm policy is capable to induce a higher level of the adoption of green products than subsidy for consumer policy.

The Duterte Administration’s Foreign Policy: Unravelling the Aquino Administration’s Balancing Agenda on an Emergent China

Abstract: From 2010 to 2016, then-President Benigno Aquino balanced China’s expansive maritime claim in the South China Sea. President Aquino challenged China by shifting the AFP’s focus from domestic security to territorial defence, bolstering closer Philippine–US security relations, acquiring American military equipment, seeking from Washington an explicit security guarantee under the 1951 Mutual Defence Treaty (MDT), and promoting a strategic partnership with Japan. However, the Duterte administration is unravelling its predecessor’s balancing agenda by distancing itself from the United States and gravitating closer to China, despite the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) July 12 2016 award to the Philippines. President Duterte’s foreign policy is directed at reviving the equi-balancing policy on China, in contrast to then-President Aquino’s balancing strategy. This is best exemplified by his efforts to harness China for several major infrastructure and investments projects in the Philippines and to resort to bilateral negotiations with Beijing. The present article argues that instead of relying on the US, President Duterte is fostering closer security partnership with Japan to equi-balance an emergent China.