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Size and dynastic decline: The principal-agent problem in late imperial China, 1700–1850
Sng, Tuan-Hwee - In: Explorations in Economic History 54 (2014) C, pp. 107-127
This paper argues that China's size was one reason behind its relative decline in the nineteenth century. A ruler governing a large country faces severe agency problems. Given his monitoring difficulties, his agents have strong incentives to extort the taxpayers. This forces him to keep taxes...
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Chapter 10 Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007
transfers and public goods are each integrated into a common optimal tax framework with the income tax and commodity taxes at … the core. Additional topics addressed include a range of dynamic issues, the unit of taxation, tax administration and … enforcement, and tax equity. …
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Further Advancing Pro-growth Tax and Benefit Reform in the Czech Republic
Hrdlicka, Zdenek; Morgan, Margaret; Prušvic, David; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
In 2008, the Czech government implemented a major overhaul of the personal income tax (PIT), replacing the previous … corporate income tax (CIT) and an increase in the concessionary rate of value added tax (VAT) applied to many goods and services …. The reform made the tax system more transparent and was broadly consistent with OECD recommendations concerning pro …
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Welfare implications of trade liberalization and fiscal reform: A quantitative experiment
Kim, Sunghyun H.; Kose, M. Ayhan - In: Journal of International Economics 92 (2014) 1, pp. 198-209
This paper studies the welfare implications of revenue-neutral trade liberalization and fiscal reform programs for developing economies using a multi-sector dynamic general equilibrium model of a small open economy. We analyze how different combinations of tariffs – on imported consumption...
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Voting under temptation
Bishnu, Monisankar; Wang, Min - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 3, pp. 419-423
Within the confines of linear tax and complete market, we show that the efficiency force for a negative capital tax may …
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Informal Fiscal Systems in Developing Countries
Aman-Rana, Shan; Minaudier, Clement; Sukhtankar, Sandip - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
government accounts from Pakistan, we show that public officials are expected to cover funding gaps in public services and they … of the tax burden, reduce the incentives of government to fight corruption, and legitimize bribe-taking …
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
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Endogenous Fertility Policy
Booth, Alison L; Sepulveda, Facundo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
In this Paper, we study the role of subsidies to fertility in ensuring the political viability of unfunded social security (SS). In our model, agents are heterogeneous in age and income. Young generations confront promises made previously by older generations, and in turn choose current levels...
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White Elephants
Robinson, James A; Torvik, Ragnar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Underdevelopment is thought to be about lack of investment, and many political economy theories can account for this. Yet, there has been much investment in developing countries. The problem has been that investment growth has not led to output growth. We therefore need to explain not simply...
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Promoting an Effective Market Economy in a Changing World
Buiter, Willem H.; Lago, Ricardo; Stern, Nicholas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
In this paper we examine the main challenges in promoting an effective market economy. While the paper ranges widely across the spectrum of economic institutions and policies, the central theme is the importance of macroeconomic stability for economic growth in the medium and long run....
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