Similar Search Results

Bounded rationality and socially optimal limits on choice in a self-selection model

Sheshinski, Eytan - 2003

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001739597

Corneo, Giacomo - 2002

In OECD countries watching television is by far the most time-consuming form of leisure. Surprisingly, television viewing is positively correlated with work hours across countries. A simple model based on the notion of aggregate strategic complementarities in social leisure is developed which...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001731781

Tax competition and profit shifting : on the relationship between personal and corporate tax rates ; [presented at CESifo Conference "Corporate and Capital Income Taxation in the E...

Fuest, Clemens; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2002

The residence-based taxation of interest income in the EU faces the difficulty that taxpayers may evade taxation by holding bank accounts in other countries. The EU therefore makes considerable efforts to achieve cooperation among EU member states in order to improve tax enforcement. The present...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001708664

International protection of intellectual property

Grossman, Gene M.; Lai, Edwin L.-C. - 2002

We study the incentives that governments have to protect intellectual property in a trading world economy. We consider … a world economy with ongoing innovation in two countries that differ in market size and in their capacities for …"We study the incentives that governments have to protect intellectual property in a trading world economy. We consider …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001726845

Self-serving dictators and economic growth

Haile, Daniel; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Verbon, Harrie - 2003

A new line of theoretical and empirical literature emphasizes the pivotal role of fair institutions for growth. We present a model, a laboratory experiment, and a simple cross-country regression supporting this view. We model an economy with an unequal distribution of property rights, in which...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001871545

Monetary and fiscal management, finance, and growth

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2004

This lecture addresses three related aspects of monetary and fiscal management in Europe and elsewhere. First, I discuss the implications of economic integration for monetary and fiscal policy, especially the narrow focus on low inflation as the main objective of monetary policy. I argue that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001900219

On cross-country differences in the persistence of real exchange rates

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Lai, Kon-sun - 1999

Previous findings of long-run purchasing power parity come mainly from data for industrial countries, raising the issue of whether the results suffer sample-selection bias and exaggerate the general relevance of parity reversion. This study uncovers substantial cross-country heterogeneity in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001446960

Have a break, have a ... national currency : when do monetary unions fall apart? ; presented at Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Monetary Unions after EMU

Nitsch, Volker - 2004

Historically, dissolutions of currency unions are not unusual. I use an annual panel data set covering 245 country pairs that use a common currency (of which 128 are dissolved) from 1948 through 1997 to characterize currency union exits. I find that departures from a currency union tend to occur...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001914122

Education, social equality and economic growth : a view of the landscape

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Gylfi Zoega - 2003

Education has been one of the key determinants of economic growth around the world since 1965. In this paper, we …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001740781

Which school systems sort weaker students into smaller classes? : International evidence

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2003

We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001807374

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last