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Fageda, Xavier - 2019

This paper examines the impact of Uber, the world's largest ride-hailing firm, on congestion. Drawing on data from large urban areas in Europe and the United States for the period 2008 through 2016, it finds a negative impact of Uber on congestion in Europe and a positive impact in the United...

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A welfare based estimate of "real feel GDP" for Europe and the USA

Germain, Jean-Marc - 2020

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Poverty in Europe and the USA : Exchanging Official Measurement Methods

Notten, Geranda; Neubourg, Chris de - 2008

Official poverty methodologies differ from other poverty measurement methods in the sense that the official ones are … USA use an objective method to estimate official poverty (Orshansky indicator). Although related, each approach portrays … different dimensions of poverty. In this study we compare the official poverty methodologies of the USA and EU by applying them …

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A New Measure of Utilization-Adjusted TFP Growth for Europe and the United States

Comin, Diego; Quintana, Javier; Schmitz, Tom; Trigari, … - 2022

We compute new estimates for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in the United States and in five European countries. Departing from standard methods, we account for positive profits and use firm surveys to proxy for unobserved changes in factor utilization. These novelties have a major...

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Tariff walls, a European crusade

Morrison-Bell, Clive - 1930

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Albania : technical assisstance report : tax policy reform options for the MTRS

Internationaler Währungsfonds - 2022

Albania is preparing a Medium-Term Revenue Strategy (MTRS) to finance its development spending of an estimated 2.2-3.0 percent of GDP over five years. Revenue mobilization will be supported by comprehensive tax policy and administration reforms. International and regional comparisons suggest...

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Modernizing the European VAT

Cnossen, Sijbren - 2020

The harmonized European value-added tax (VAT) is anything but a modern consumption tax that taxes all goods and services at a uniform rate. As exemplified by an analysis of the Dutch version, some 60% of the base is exempted, that is, not taxed on output but on inputs. This has serious...

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VAT and Agriculture : Lessons from Europe

Cnossen, Sijbren - 2017

Farmers are often exempted from VAT for administrative and political reasons. But this means that the VAT on their inputs cannot be ‘washed out' through the tax deduction/credit mechanism. To compensate farmers for the uncompensated VAT on inputs, the EU has devised a flat-rate scheme that...

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Policy-makers and the R&D-patent relationship

Van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno (contributor); … - 2008

This policy contribution by Bruno von Pottelsberghe argues that the number of priority filings should be used as a patent-based measure of Europe's innovation performance. It also identifies several policies that may affect the R&D-patent relationship.

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Multidimensional poverty measurement in Europe : an application of the adjusted headcount approach

Whelan, Christopher T.; Nolan, Brian; Maître, Bertrand - 2012

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