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Second-Best Carbon Taxation in the Global Economy: The Green Paradox and Carbon Leakage Revisited

van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Unilateral second-best carbon taxes are analysed in a two-period, two-country model with international trade in final goods, oil and bonds. Acceleration of global warming resulting from a future carbon tax is large if the price elasticities of oil demand are large and that of oil supply is...

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Effective Corporate Taxation, Tax Incidence and Tax Reforms: Evidence from OECD Countries

Barrios, Salvador; Nicodème, Gaëtan; Fuentes, Sanchez; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

The present study provides estimates of the Effective Marginal Tax Rates (EMTRs) for a sample of 17 OECD countries and 11 manufacturing sectors in a single framework encompassing capital, labour and energy taxes. Our cross-country/cross-sector approach allows us comparing the incentives provided...

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The Distribution of Harm in Price-Fixing Cases

Boone, Jan; Müller, Wieland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We consider a vertically related industry and analyze how the total harm due to a price increase upstream is distributed over downstream firms and final consumers. For this purpose, we develop a general model without making specific assumptions regarding demand, costs, or the mode of...

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Direct Evidence of Dividend Tax Clienteles

Dahlquist, Magnus; Robertsson, Göran; Rydqvist, Kristian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We study a large data set of stock portfolios held by individuals and organizations in the Swedish stock market. The dividend yields on these portfolios are systematically related to investors' relative tax preferences for dividends versus capital gains. Tax-neutral investors earn 40 basis...

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The Burden and Disincentive Effects of Hungarian Personal Taxes 1988-96

Newbery, David M G; Revesz, Tamas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The paper analyses the revenue-raising, distributional and incentive effects of the personal tax system in Hungary from the start of the transitional tax reforms of 1988, and develops methods for estimating marginal indirect taxes. It evaluates the distributional impact of revenue-neutral...

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The Evolution of Retirement

Conde-Ruiz, José Ignacio; Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We provide a long-term perspective on the individual retirement behaviour and on the future of early retirement. In a cross-country sample, we find that total pension spending depends positively on the degree of early retirement and on the share of elderly in the population, which increase the...

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Temporary Shocks and Unavoidable Transitions to a High-Unemployment Regime

Den Haan, Wouter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper develops a model with multiple steady states (low tax and low unemployment versus high tax and high unemployment) in which equilibrium selection is not conditioned on a sunspot variable. Instead, large temporary shocks initiate unavoidable transitions from one steady state to another....

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Competition and Firm Performance in Transition Economies: Evidence from Firm Level Surveys in Slovenia, Hungary and Romania

Konings, Jozef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

countries, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia. The data are based on interviews taken in more than 300 state-owned, privatized and … pressure has a positive impact on firm performance in Hungary and Slovenia, but not in Romania, while in Romenia short … (being state-owned and privatized enterprises) tend to perform worse than newly-established firms in Hungary and Slovenia. In …

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Tax and Benefit Reform in the Czech and Slovak Republics

Heady, Christopher; Smith, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper analyses the changes to the tax and social security systems that have occurred since Czechoslovakia's `velvet revolution' in 1989. It shows how the tax system is moving to meet the requirements of a market economy. It suggests that a particularly high priority has to be given to...

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Income polarization and economic growth

Brzezinski, Michal - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013

This study examines empirically the impact of income polarization on economic growth in an unbalanced panel of more than 70 countries during the 1960–2005 period. We calculate various polarization indices using existing micro-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data...

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