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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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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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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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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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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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