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This paper seeks to explain the significant variations in the social contract observed across nations. It shows how countries with similar technologies and preferences, as well as equally democratic political systems, can sustain very different average and marginal tax rates. Similarly, it...
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This paper studies the effects of progressive income taxes and education finance in a dynamic heterogeneous agent economy. Such redistributive policies entail distortions to labour supply and savings, but also serve as partial substitutes for missing credit and insurance markets. The resulting...
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international trade in equity that encompasses complete and incomplete asset market scenarios. By separating asset prices and … net foreign equity holdings. First-order excess returns are unanticipated and i.i.d. in our model, but capital gains and … losses on equity positions feature persistent, anticipated dynamics in response to productivity shocks. The separation of …
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shows that taxpayers are the main losers as subsidies are still needed. There are also serious efficiency-equity trade …
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second case, it is levered equity. Debt maximizes lenders’ payoffs from financing low-NPV projects, i.e., projects that have … a high probability mass on low cashflows, thus minimizing their conservatism. Conversely, levered equity minimizes … that are relatively likely to break even are financed with debt, while less profitable projects are financed with equity …
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should be sufficiently risky, ie equity, in contrast to the standard Brander-Lewis (1986) result that debt deters entry. We …-up industries and the policy debate on the separation of banking as to whether banks should be permitted to hold equity in firms. …
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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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It is relatively well known that the introduction of consumption taxation as an alternative in the tax code, and as the main source of government revenues, leads to a more efficient tax system. However the conventional wisdom is that the change from the actual tax code, based on taxation of...
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This Paper analyses the relationship between different equity rules and the incentives to sign and ratify a climate …
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Although there are exceptions, most European universities and institutions of higher education find it difficult to compete with the best universities in the Anglo-Saxon world. Despite the Bologna agreement and the ambitions of the Lisbon agenda, European universities are in need of fundamental...
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