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Chapter 10 Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007
This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...
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Market Mechanisms in Public Service Provision
Blöchliger, Hansjörg - 2008
This paper presents a new set of institutional indicators that assess how sub-central governments harness market mechanisms such as tendering, outsourcing, user choice and competition, user fees and output-related funding when providing public services. Services put under scrutiny comprise...
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Local public finances and municipal reform in Finland
André, Christophe; García, Clara - 2014
Finnish municipalities enjoy ample fiscal autonomy and provide or arrange the provision of a large share of public services. In recent years, their spending and debt has been increasing steadily, especially because of population ageing and increases in the cost of health care and social...
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Human capital, multiple income risk and social insurance
Schindler, Dirk (contributor) - 2008
We set up an OLG-model, where households both choose human capital investment and decide on investing their endogenous savings in a portfolio of riskless and risky assets, exposing them to (aggregate) wage and capital risks due to technological shocks. We derive the optimal public policy mix of...
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The political economy of income taxation under asymmetric information : the two-type case
Roemer, John E. - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 1/2, pp. 181-199
The apparent ubiquity of progressive taxation in advanced democracies has animated research by political economists in the past decade, but little progress has been made in modeling political equilibria over tax policy when labor supply is elastic with respect to taxation. Here, we postulate an...
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How taxes and spending on education influence economic growth in Poland
Konopczyński, Michał - In: Contemporary economics 8 (2014) 3, pp. 329-347
This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth in Poland and four types of taxes and human capital investment. We primarily rely on an exogenous growth model that merges the Mankiw-Romer-Weil model, augmented with learning-by-doing and spillover-effects, with selected elements...
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Chapter 12. Taxation, Pensions, and Demographic Change
Woodland, A. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 713-780). 2016
This chapter provides a review of some implications of demographic shift arising from population aging for fiscal policy, taxation policy, and social security settings. The key implications of population aging that have been forthcoming from the many national and international macroeconomic...
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Local Public Finances and Municipal Reform in Finland
André, Christophe; García, Clara - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
Finnish municipalities enjoy ample fiscal autonomy and provide or arrange the provision of a large share of public services. In recent years, their spending and debt has been increasing steadily, especially because of population ageing and increases in the cost of health care and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276871
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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective …
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Aunified perspective on efficiency, redistribution, and public policy
Kaplow, Louis - In: National tax journal 73 (2020) 2, pp. 429-472
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